tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post3401855424780908961..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Susan Price: A Boy's Adventure Story...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-60785713449669608262008-08-15T21:34:00.000+01:002008-08-15T21:34:00.000+01:00If I know Sue, it will be a bloody good historical...If I know Sue, it will be a bloody good historical book anyway, as good as anything by Rosemary Sutcliff or Henry Treece or Geoffrey Trease. (All of whom I loved and admire.) Thank goodness we still have classic writers, and Sue is one of them!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-51462074672423993822008-08-08T11:53:00.000+01:002008-08-08T11:53:00.000+01:00I reckon you'll be able to stuff a whole lot of 'h...I reckon you'll be able to stuff a whole lot of 'history' down the side of the sofa so to speak. Whatever, it does sound great...adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-30148432142459919272008-08-07T14:17:00.000+01:002008-08-07T14:17:00.000+01:00And that is a good summary as to why most modern c...And that is a good summary as to why most modern children's historical fiction is utter tripe.<BR/><BR/>Your book sounds brilliant, would have sold loads and would have had reviewers everywhere crying into their beer saying "But we *know* children dont like didactic fiction!"<BR/><BR/>I'd really like to see the book you wanted to write. The book that such "failures" as Geoffrey Trease, Ronald Welch, Henry Treese and Rosemary Sutcliff would have written.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-91336085038323513542008-08-07T13:18:00.000+01:002008-08-07T13:18:00.000+01:00Away with the Vikings is better than away with the...Away with the Vikings is better than away with the fairies, which is where I've been for the last few weeks (literally--am writing a commissioned Field Guide to the little people). I love being asked to do stuff (a novel? I wish!) as I find it triggers off all sorts of new pathways to wander down in my brain. And I find it comforting when publishers actually want to commission me. Ah, the fragility of the writer's ego!Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.com