tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post3092331771354527991..comments2024-03-27T22:25:42.129-05:00Comments on Reading the Past: Stranger than Fiction: a guest post by Susan Spann, author of the Shinobi MysteriesSarah Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-47380763498440209492015-07-29T15:49:25.326-05:002015-07-29T15:49:25.326-05:00It's great how that plotting conundrum with th...It's great how that plotting conundrum with the two women worked itself out. And thanks very much for the compliment, Midi, that's really nice of you to say!Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-54276585284796398492015-07-29T15:47:10.118-05:002015-07-29T15:47:10.118-05:00I enjoyed your short review - and agree it would b...I enjoyed your short review - and agree it would be nice to see the books made into a TV series. A Japanese historical setting would be nice for a change!Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-80790715250203880072015-07-29T15:45:04.612-05:002015-07-29T15:45:04.612-05:00I was pleased to feature it - glad you enjoyed the...I was pleased to feature it - glad you enjoyed the read.Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-67101166947048253292015-07-29T15:44:29.997-05:002015-07-29T15:44:29.997-05:00Now that's an authoritative source. I'm g...Now that's an authoritative source. I'm glad to hear they respond to such questions. And a neat story, too.Sarah Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340312953393474963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-58593617617772795322015-07-28T12:41:15.548-05:002015-07-28T12:41:15.548-05:00I love dragons too, and trust in their power to re...I love dragons too, and trust in their power to reveal themselves when the moment is right. A miracle came to me late in the life of my time-slip novel, Nights of the Road. For more than a year, I had lived with two women, dutifully listening to and re-telling their tales that unfolded nearly four hundred years apart in time. I had been 'writing blind', without understanding why and how the womens' stories connected. As I lay with my modern fictional heroine on the grassy slope of an ancient English castle in Chapter 45, our 17th century real life companion revealed herself to us in our 21st century time frame. Suddenly all about their relationship became clear, even if I yet didn't know how their respective stories would complete and resolve! An earlier 'miracle' had come while working several chapters earlier in that same book, when my frustration with one of the real life characters was resolved. Everything I knew from my researches of him suggested that this man was a Gemini and yet his reported birthdate declared otherwise. What a delight to wake up and realise that I had been using the 'wrong calendar' in reading his astrological sign. And what a delight to confirm that I had indeed 'read him right'! Your lovely website is also something of an ongoing miracle in my life, Sarah: it reveals again and again such dragon treasures as this post by Susan. Thank you both and love to you and all dragons everywhere. Midi Berryhttp://www.nightsoftheroad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-68545046054171064292015-07-28T06:04:58.918-05:002015-07-28T06:04:58.918-05:00What an interesting post - love it! I am on this t...What an interesting post - love it! I am on this tour, too, and just loved the book. I look forward to more in the series and now I will be thinking about dragons!! -beth of beth's book-nook blogAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-49482023447258866732015-07-28T04:26:22.282-05:002015-07-28T04:26:22.282-05:00For one of my novels, I needed to know the time of...For one of my novels, I needed to know the time of high tide at London Bridge on a particular day in April 1536. I didn't want to put in a time of my choosing, because I knew that some pest would write in and tell me that I had got it wrong. I enquired of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, who replied that it was not possible to calculate definite times, but a standard estimating formula would put high tide in the morning at around 9 a.m.—which is exactly when I needed it to be.Alan Fiskhttp://www.alanfisk.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19307003.post-89677037852792811432015-07-27T10:36:53.428-05:002015-07-27T10:36:53.428-05:00Great guest post.Great guest post.Lauralee https://www.blogger.com/profile/14390056395943760008noreply@blogger.com