Sam Kowal

@seekjustice @valtmy @jenwriter17 @dekreel @catwing I’m here for a little while.

@seekjustice thank you 🙂

Yes this makes sense. I’m not super familiar with Google Hangouts, so I’ll have to research that a bit more. I had been considering making a full website for it with forums and everything, but Hangouts sounds like a good idea. How would you share a document in hangouts so everyone could read it? And what do you think…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Okay, I’ll put the rest of the series on my Christmas wish list 😛

I know. I didn’t know she was brilliant. But did she have a daughter who wrote too? It might have been her daughter’s books.

Oooh, the Bounty is an Australian thing!

@seekjustice Cool!  Well, if you get a chance to read the full Viking Quest series, let me know what you think, because I absolutely love that series! 😉

What?!!  Got rid of Grace Livingston Hill books?? 🙁 🙁  That’s sad. 😛

My favorite of Ballantyne’s books is The Lonely Island, which is a fictionalized version of the story of the Mutineers of…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Yep, I managed to find them all on Koorong.

I’ll definitely have to see if I can find the rest of those 😀

I would love to speed-read through your library 😛

I think I had some of Grace Livingston Hill’s books, but unfortunately I had to cull them. Whoops 😛 (But hey, I have so many books that my bookcases are bursting at the…[Read more]

@seekjustice There are five books in the Viking Quest series.

There are seven more books in the Young Underground series, following A Way Across the Sea, and then there is a series set a few years later which is not really connected except a couple of the characters leech over to make “cameo” appearances. 😉

Aw, too bad. 🙁  Well, when you come…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I have the first two Viking Quest books and I enjoyed them when I read them several years ago. Do you know how many more there are in the series?

Oh, I’ve got one of Robert Elmer’s books too! A Way Across the Sea I think it’s called, and I really, really like that one. I’ve never got anymore of his books because they aren’t in p…[Read more]

@seekjustice I’m back. 😀

Okay, modern his-fics first:

Have you read the Viking Quest series by Lois Walfrid Johnson?  Those have a good deal of romance, but I would say about the level there is in your Infinity series, so not too bad, and they’re definitely his-fics and not romance novels.  If you’ve read those (or even if you haven’t) you s…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Okay! I’ll see you later 😀

@seekjustice I’m partway through the list, but I’ve got to go.  I’ll probably be back in about an hour, and I’ll send it your way then.

Will you be on later?

Bye for now!

@rochellaine

Yep, that’s what I mean. I really want some modern stuff which isn’t romance, but I know you mostly read older books, so I don’t mind if you’re suggestions are older.

(It was a few days ago. Sunday/Saturday maybe?)

@seekjustice My list is in progress, but just a quick question: What do you mean by modern his-fics?  Ones that were written recently, but don’t focus mainly on romance to the exclusion of any and all historical accuracy? 😛  (I kind of remember having this conversation with you, but it was a while ago, right?)

@rochellaine

Just frustrating and I need to learn not to make mountains out of molehills. *Sigh*

Ah yes, I’d love that list! You were also going to suggest a few modern his-fics too, because you mentioned you’d read some good ones (and bad ones too, but I’m not interested in them 😛 )

@jenwriter17

Sorry Jen that I never got back to you (happy birthday by the way)

I think the numbers already posted are a good fit. It needs to be small, but there obviously needs to be enough people to give a variety of criticism. As to actually making it, I’m not really sure. I would suggest looking into something like Google hangouts (though…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hm, that doesn’t sound good. 😛

I was supposed to give you a list of his-fics with heroines who aren’t rich and snobby, wasn’t I?  Would that make the day go better? 😉

@rochellaine

Okay 😀

Ah, it’s one of those days where all the small things seem to be going wrong and its very frustrating 😉

@catwing @jenwriter17 Sorry I missed you! 🙁

@seekjustice I’m on now for just a little bit, then I might be on later too.

How’s it going?

@rochellaine

I didn’t get your notification till just now. Are you still around? Will you be around soon?

whoops, gotta go now…

@rochellaine @catwing I think I can be on for a little bit. 🙂 I’m researching nanowrimo stuff; it’ll be my first this year.