Help!

[erastes]

Happy birthday treva2007! Have a good one!

HELP! I have a real dilemma.  Most of my sources - books, internet, historians - tell me that Charles I was executed on 30th January 1649.

However!  Look at this.  An actual newspaper reporting the death of Charles I - gives full details of the execution and the speech....

in 1648...!!!!!!  What's a historical writer to do? Aside from panic, that is? It's not just on page one that is say 1648 -it says it on the last page too.

OMG - True Blood. What a great show - just gets better all the time.  Makes me gag, makes me giggle, makes me go awww, and rowrl (over moody broody Eric).  Loving it.  I wish they hadn't  shown the dog running out of the bar though, as it would have made the cliffhanger even funnier. Now that's my idea of a shifter - silly dog - nothing Alpha or sexy about that.

Comments

[viggofest.livejournal.com]

An author's note at the end?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think so. I am thinking perhaps that the book needs a bloody glossary - NOT what m/m readers are generally wanting....

:)

I'll ask the publisher, that's probably the best idea.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I'd go with an author's note at the back, stating that yes, the year was 1648 by the way people then reckoned time, but that this would confuse contemporary readers, so you stuck with the modern dating system.