I'm glad to hear her Richard isn't too terrible. Richards, in my experience, seem to end up on polar ends of the good/evil spectrum, and I just want to read one in the middle. I am wondering if I should try another Gregory book, but TWQ made me so very, very angry... Granted, I did think her Edward was pretty reasonable and I enjoyed that they had a mostly functional relationship. Too many of the anti-Woodville novels turn Elizabeth into some sort of harridan. I guess my main issue with so much of the Wars of the Roses fiction out there is that it's all agenda-based to some extent or another.
And I do actually know why, now that I think about it. The Richard III Society (bless their crazy little hearts) are absolutely wonderful about getting fifteenth-century source material out there for non-academics, but as a result, a lot of it comes out slanted pro-Richard. In the meantime, academia tends to lean anti-Richard almost as a kneejerk reaction to what they perceive as the sentimentalism of the Ricardians, so you get people like Michael Hicks who are legitimately good scholars but who somehow feel the need to broadcast that they are Real Historians Thank You Very Much. It doesn't matter who he's supposed to be writing about--it always ends up about how Richard III is awful and he's the only person willing to say so. His "biography" (and the scare quotes are totally warranted) of Anne Neville was a complete joke.
The AU basically transplants the characters and action (in a way) to the turn of the twentieth century. It is Shakespeare-based, but, honestly, the parts that I've written include so much non-Shakespearean material that it's almost its own thing at times. Also, I shamelessly ship the Duke and Duchess of York. So there is that. ;) Oh, and I don't know if you watch Doctor Who at all, but I co-authored a ridiculous fic about Margaret of Anjou getting her hands on some clockwork robots from the future...
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Date: 2012-09-10 10:44 pm (UTC)I love the Mélusine story and if I ever actually write the novel I keep meaning to write, it will be in there, but I hated what Gregory did wtih it. I hated that she insisted on making Elizabeth responsible for events happenings miles away from her, that Actual Magic was the source of her power rather than her intellect or her instincts or anything that was innately her. Because she was a seriously amazing woman IRL and it sold her completely short.
And I do actually know why, now that I think about it. The Richard III Society (bless their crazy little hearts) are absolutely wonderful about getting fifteenth-century source material out there for non-academics, but as a result, a lot of it comes out slanted pro-Richard. In the meantime, academia tends to lean anti-Richard almost as a kneejerk reaction to what they perceive as the sentimentalism of the Ricardians, so you get people like Michael Hicks who are legitimately good scholars but who somehow feel the need to broadcast that they are Real Historians Thank You Very Much. It doesn't matter who he's supposed to be writing about--it always ends up about how Richard III is awful and he's the only person willing to say so. His "biography" (and the scare quotes are totally warranted) of Anne Neville was a complete joke.
The AU basically transplants the characters and action (in a way) to the turn of the twentieth century. It is Shakespeare-based, but, honestly, the parts that I've written include so much non-Shakespearean material that it's almost its own thing at times. Also, I shamelessly ship the Duke and Duchess of York. So there is that. ;) Oh, and I don't know if you watch Doctor Who at all, but I co-authored a ridiculous fic about Margaret of Anjou getting her hands on some clockwork robots from the future...