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[adderslj]

If you're looking for that perfect last minute gift for a loved one, can I recommend two very fine recent publications?
The first is the latest instalment in the Orpheus line from White Wolf, which features a piece of opening fiction by my good self. You get to see a chunk of Wraith come visit the Orpheussetting and a signature character die. Oh, and I actually wrote this short story in a small cottage on Dartmoor, during my honeymoon, and e-mailed it in using a phone socket in the tourist information office...
I'd also recommend Dark Ages: British Isles, a fine work by such luminaries as kit_hartford, incandescens and myself. It looks at Britain in the 13th century, the supernaturals who inhabit the Isles and, more to the point, answers the intriguing question "what's the link between Thomas Beckett and the Shadow Inquisition?". To no-one's great surprise, I did the chunks on Scotland, the Inquisition and religion in the period. Oh, and it's not the happy druidic nonsense that some people would have you believe was the orthodoxy of the day, either...
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Comments

[incandescens]

I'm still waiting for my author copies, too . . . and would it be very critical of me to correct your spelling of my lj name?

[adders.livejournal.com]

Already done...the post was written offline, so I had no access to correct usernames. I forgot to look 'em up before posting them.

[incandescens]

Thanks. :)

[andrewducker]

I have a vague memory that the last WW product about the UK had Shining Marble Towers in Stirling (where I lived at the time, and was sadly lacking in marbled towers).

I hope the new one's a tad better.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Adam,

did you at least get the Druids to move Stonehenge back into England? </innocent>

[adders.livejournal.com]

That was incandescens's territory, but I'm pretty sure she sorted it all out. :-)

[kit-hartford.livejournal.com]

Indeed they did (pesky druids!) - it, together with Silbury Hill, Avebury and the Kennets get mentioned in the Wiltshire bit of "the Lands and the People." There are also a couple of other bits where it gets namechecked (not least the Fenrir's rubishing of Geoffrey of Monmouth's origin story for the stones)

[adders.livejournal.com]

Isle of the Mighty. God, that was awful. I remember that error, mainly as I grew up just down the road from Storling, and I remembered a distinct lack of marble. No, this book was written with all UK authors for a reason. A lot of IotM has been ignored or retconned, too.

[kit-hartford.livejournal.com]

>>Oh, and I actually wrote this short story in a small cottage on Dartmoor, during my honeymoon, and e-mailed it in using a phone socket in the tourist information office...<<

And I thought I was bad writing the last bits of DA: BI when Béa and I were on holiday in Cornwall ...

Can I plug the recently released Ventrue Chronicles (the Dark Ages York section written by an American, the Victorian Age New York by a Brit, and the Modern Savannah section by a Dane, go figure, but it works IMHO).