Bringing historical festivities back to life

Bringing historical festivities back to life

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Celebrations, feasts and traditions have always been part of what makes us human. They bound our ancestors to their ancestors and can do the same for characters in historical fiction. Some feasts are moveable; all can be moving, both to characters and to readers. Some...
Giving your book a second soul: using other languages effectively

Giving your book a second soul: using other languages effectively

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

The idea that another language gives us a second soul comes from Charlemagne. As a polyglot and ruler of a multilingual territory, he understood what other languages meant to individuals and to societies. Tolstoy understood it too. In War and Peace, his aristocrats...