No. no no no.

[erastes]

Dear Author.

PLEASE. I will take your “Winter”s and your “Aurora”s in Victorian times (after Victoria was named, the “mad naming craze” really took off here,) but I’m NOT going to swallow you calling your heroine SIERRA.

In 500AD.

Thank you. And no love.

Erastes

ps. Gehayi would like to add that Britannia didn’t exist either.

 

Dear Publisher

If you are:

“seeking short stories for an anthology retelling Greek myth re-set as urban fantasy.  The stories should be between 5 and 20k in length, and should be YA friendly”

That’s a bit of tall order, I’d say.  I shall be interested to see what people come up with!!!

Intrigued,

Erastes

Comments

[copperbeech.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I fret over accuracy in my writing. It smacks of laziness when a writer doesn't do thorough homework. I know you miss *some* things... But still.

Hope you're well!

[beckyblack]

LOL, Sierra. Wouldn't it still have been Cortina back then? ;-) ::apologises now for lamest and most obscure joke of the day.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for an Erastes post all day and that was worth waiting for, lol!

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Not that I want to stop your righteous wrath at the face of anachronisms, cause really, they do deserve to be smacked out of writers' brains, but...Aurora Raby is a virtuous heroine in Byron's Don Juan, published in 1824. Considering the popularity of Byronic names for girls in the decades after his death (countless Medoras, for example), Aurora is quite a plausible name for a young woman in the second half of the nineteenth century.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I have snorted diet coke through my nose.

:)

[spindriftdancer.livejournal.com]

That just makes my teeth itch. It's SO EASY to find appropriate names on the 'net. Really, it is! Blargle.

Is someone on the lookout for something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lightning_Thief

I didn't know that the Greek myths were becoming popular again. At least, the printable ones... ;p

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Definitely - as I said - after Victoria was christened (in 1819) names started to go bonkers.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was a little tongue in cheek, but off the top of my head, the only Greek myths I could think of consisted of mass murder, parricide, matricide, incest, rape, bestiality, homosexuality...

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

Sorry, my misreading then - I got the impression you thought Aurora was an unlikely name.

Until then, of course, everyone was called George or Georgiana. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

:)

Have you seen the funny nature segues on BBC 1 with the gopher and the lizard? BRILLIANT. I need icons of a gopher saying STEVE! STEVE!!

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

ahah yes! steve! perfect iconage.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

But Sierra. In post roman Britain, WHO would think that was normal? argh!

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

vroom.

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Yes dear, but that is how your mind works!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ok - name me a YA friendly one!!!!

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

*ponders* Icarus?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Health and Safety would be all over that one, "Don't try this at home" - which of course they would -not YA friendly!!!

[beckyblack]

Sounds like pretty much the sort of stuff I was obsessed with when I was a YA. :D

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

did not know H&S was a component in YA.

No wonder the world is turning out so shite - where is the imagination!

[beckyblack]

"Please do not attempt human powered flight without a full risk assessment and taking out third part insurance."

[beckyblack]

It would be even funnier if she was called Cortina. I could see an American author doing that. "Cortina, that's pretty." Whoops!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oh definitely - but now there's so much cotton wool around the "poor YA should mustnt read anything like that!!!"

[erastes.livejournal.com]

"And please keep at least 93,999,999 miles from the sun."

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

Sierra? I'd be interested in the book it came from. Sierra, in Italian, is 'mountain range'. In Spanish I think it is the same, but context would be all. Hmm!

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

seeking short stories for an anthology retelling Greek myth re-set as urban fantasy.

Argh! Why urban fantasy? I have something that would be perfect aside from the Regency setting. Bah.

Also, Sierra? ::sporfle::