Elisabeth Wheatley 📚

@YouTube doesn't allow me to report the violation of someone else's copyright, but does anyone know how to bring this to the attention of pertinent individuals at @avonbooks? It appears someone used AI voice to create a whole bunch of "audiobooks." 😐 youtu.be/Hxe_3a_WhNI?si…

I had the enormous pleasure recently of chatting to author @WheatleyWrites about Anglo-Saxon women. Catch our conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=_wMXcR…

So I’ve just finished reading book 1 and now I need to know what happens 😬the rest of the series is now on order 😂 @WheatleyWrites

The more I learn about Æthelred II, the more beef I have with him, but my one extremely specific beef is that he had his second wife (birth name Emma) go by the same name as his first wife (Ælfgifu) and that was just unnecessary.

If I ever cave and write Historical Fiction, it will be about how Harold Godwinson won the Battle of Hastings.

OMG

YAAAASSSSSSSSSSS

If I make a post about Viking history and no random dude comments to argue without citing his sources, did I actually make a post about Viking history? 🤔

Made the mistake of looking at my Goodreads reviews. (It's fine.)

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Halbrand during season 1 of #TheRingsOfPower :

I was recently interviewed for a New York Times article on age gaps in Fantasy Romance books. 😀 nytimes.com/2024/08/13/sty…

@EliHinze @digkabri Excellent choice

This was a nearly impossible decision to make! Which edition of 1177 BC by the one and only Eric Cline @digkabri to get? Both. The answer is both.

I have gone so far down the rabbit hole of research for my Viking Fantasy Romance that I am now confronted with historical Vikings that are so UNLIKE the pop culture version of Vikings that no one will believe these characters are based on the Vikings.

ME: Wolves and wolfdogs are not meant to be house pets and their continued breeding as house pets is both unethical and unsafe and if I give the character in this Fantasy book a magic pet wolfdog it might perpetuate— ALSO ME: MAGIC WOLF PUPPER YESSSSSSS

If you order a 23andMe kit before September 30, you can get your ancestry results back in time to destroy all your family's falsified lore over the holidays. 🙏

@ztrussell Hahaha.

“How dare those Christians work with non-Christians to get their message out?” wrote the Christian on a website run by a non-Christian.

@MortimerOrazia That story was from a single (unreliable) individual and not mentioned by other witnesses of the event. Historians mostly disregard it as an invention.

@WheatleyWrites Have you gotten to the bit where someone threatens to kill her child and she hikes uo her gown and says "I can make more"?

Caterina Sforza seizing control of a fortress and holding the papacy hostage at cannon-point while seven months pregnant after nine years of marriage to a politically incompetent bufoon is the epitome of "fine, I'll do it myself."

All the truly spicy stuff (i.e. the alleged inc3st and 0rgies) was disseminated by their political rivals and anti-Spanish detractors.

Pretty much everything about them that can be confirmed was things other Italian cardinals and bishops were doing at the time (i.e. keeping mistresses, siring kids, doing shady sh*t to give those kids power).

Most disappointing thing about studying the real Borgia family is that they were...normal???