Edit schmedit.

[erastes]

It's moving along, but gah! the mistakes one finds !!

I'm describing the Battle of Edgehill and I go and say that the right flank of the King'S cavalry attacked the right flank of the Parliament's.  Idiot!

Only if

1. they galloped diagonally across the flood plain OR

2. They were both facing in the same direction.

*kicks self*

I also mention SHRAPNEL.  Yeah. In 1642.  Riiiiight...... That would have been hard to live down as my fellow historical novelists laughed in my face.

It's a worry!

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Heh. I do. One of my best RL friends is IN the English Civil War Society - it's because of her that I was encouraged to write the damned thing. She is going to pass the book on to her friends, but I think I've left it too late.

What's interesting is that she tells me that the book is likely to be bought by a few of the participants because there are very very few books ever written in the era so people seek out what there is. I think that As Meat Loves Salt is more immersersed in the period - but I hope that I haven't made anything glaring. My mate said she didn't like one of the characters speaking in Thees and Thous - and it would have destroyed the character if I'd changed it, because it was part of what he was - but I did some further research - with the HNS and others and they assured me that although it wasn't common, some people did speak like that in the mid 17thc.

It might be worth sticking a "card" up on the ECWS or the Sealed Knot sites, though - thanks!