Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
In case anyone doesn’t have an e-book of SORCERY AND CECELIA and wants one, a bunch of places are doing Black Friday/Cyber Week discounts. Amazon will have it at $1.99 on Friday, 11/25; Kobo will promote it on 11/28, and Apple’s Cyber Week (I’m assuming that’s through their iTunes book section) will have all three of the Kate and Cecy novels as a bundle from 11/25 to 12/2.
I’m taking a brief holiday break; I’ll be back next week with something about getting back to writing after a break, and the week after that I’ll be addressing Kin’s question about why you would ever ignore or patch a plot hole when you could fix it completely.
Meantime, have a good week.
Patricia C. Wrede
Happy Thanksgiving! I know I’m thankful for all the advice and help you give to writers 🙂
Mrs.Wrede,
If you don’t mind my asking, I would like to know as much about magic ,especially aphrikan majik,as I can, I’d like you to send me an email or something of the sort if you could ma’am. You can contact me @austinwilson191@gmail.com, it would be a great honor ma’am. I wish to go into more detail about what I want to know if you email me.
– Yours Truly
Austin Wilson
Austin, the trouble is that (a) Patricia is an American of European descent, and (b) when she invented Aphrikan magic for her trilogy, she made it up.
I had the same problem once; I wrote a story about the Elusinian mysteries. I based everything I could on a book by George Mylonas (who spent _thirty years_ of his life researching Eleusis), and I made the rest up. I met one reader who was terribly disappointed to learn this. She’d hoped I had some secret source of information … but no.
Read the Frontier Magic books, though, because they are very good reading even though she made most of it up. That’s what writers do.