Your historical WIP time & place

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Way back when I asked what periods of history were over and under represented in works of fiction. Moving on to part 2 - in your WIP(s), what's the time period and the location?

My no longer WIP is 1800-1815 in Ohio. What's yours? Puma
 

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Current historical WIP is Tudor Era, England. I write that era/locate most often, as I have a fairly firm grounding in the history and genealogy.

I did have an idea recently for a piece set during the Patriarchal period of the Old Testament, but I wouldn't qualify that as pure historical.
 

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1815; Vienna and France
1368-69; England and France
ca. 1400; Ireland and England
1895; London

My published books are both Regency Era England--1816 for PoT; 1815 for DYG.
 

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Agented and in submission: Mid-eighteenth century, colonial Virginia frontier.
WIP: 1776-1777, New York City.
 

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Looks like so far the British Isles are way out ahead. I'm interested to see a couple American Revolutionary War period works. Puma
 

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I'm working on fantasy at the moment, for which I use elements of 13thC medieval life, but I have an idea for a story to work on in the future set in the Isle of Man and the Lancashire coast in around 1869.
When I started doing research I realised what a fascinating time it was - Douglas, Isle of Man was a tourism boom town, with new hotels being built everywhere and a committee working towards a new railway system for the island, and Fleetwood went from empty sand dunes to a bustling fishing town in twenty years entirely based on the shrimp fishing trade.
 

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They used quill pens right?

WIP: American West post Civil War (a Dances with Wolves sort of thingy) 1860's - 80's

WIP: France 1600's (King Louis XVI ?, can't be sure of the XVI offhand.) A bio-dramatization.

WIP: Native American Bio - California 1840's

So my 'western' era is well covered.

The French concept story is a dramatization of actual events of that period, but fictionalized.

The Bio on my California NA person needs to be written, he's an important part of California history, but literarialy forgotten.
 
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Way back when I asked what periods of history were over and under represented in works of fiction. Moving on to part 2 - in your WIP(s), what's the time period and the location?

My no longer WIP is 1800-1815 in Ohio. What's yours? Puma

Kansas. 1947. UFOs and buzzards.
 

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