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Yes - indeed his stuff has been published - and for the token sum of $399 you could have yours published by the publishing powerhouse that is Xlibris Corporation: http://www2.xlibris.com/ $399 - Ouch that's about 200 hours of hard manual labour in Alaska.

far too easy - Aragorn from FOTR :D

For me it depends on the length of the book. What may be fine for a 500 page book may be far too many for one with <200 pages. Try to cram too many in and you end up with a bunch of bit part players that you never feel you know.

I''ve only read the DragonLance books and would agree that these are good solid fantasy works. I enjoyed them but I'd steer clear of some of the spins offs as they are of varing quality. What was it you liked particularly about the fantasy works you read - characters, worlds, pace...

You could also try contacting some charities for the blind and partially sighed. These require individuals to record newspapers, magazine articles, information pamphlets and advice forms.

I've read both and would agree with Tundra's comments. Both are fairly heavy going, but you may be put off by the first section of the Sound and the Fury as the "voice" is difficult to follow and you don't get a good sense of what's what and who's who until later on. The timeline is also...

Today's the cross hairs have randomly selected ... The Sea - John Banville Voyageurs - Margaret Elphinstone Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb Atonement - Ian McEwan The Call of the Wild - Jack London all either sitting in a pile or in my Amazon Basket

I'm guessing from your signature :D that you're probably familiar with the site: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.asp strangely enough they list nothing for X either and looking at quotes in the dark tongue there are none - plenty of z's but no x's. Hmm...

Voyageurs by Margaret Elphinstone In the early 1800s, Rachel Greenhow, a young Quaker, goes missing in the Canadian wilderness. Unable to accept the disappearance, her brother Mark leaves his farm in England, determined to bring his sister home. What follows is a gripping account of Mark's...

Precitable but I enjoyed Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - you don't get more British or more detective than that. I'd wait an canvass some more as I've not read all that many detective stories. Cheers.

Sorry Violanthe - think I must have bored everyone away from the thread. :o It would have been interesting to see what the final poll showed

Just spotted you've got the same kind of accent interpretation to do in the first stanza: Stalking her so stealthily ^ - ^ - ^ - ^ You need to almost artificially elongate "stealthily" to get the final stress beat in. Cheers,

Can't figure out how to get the quote thing to work curses - anyway ... "I can't figure out how to put in accents. (cursed/cur-sed) Can someone tell me?" I wouldn't bother let the reader find out for themselves, it sometimes takes several reads to get the rythym, rhyme (Where's spell...

Just spotted this ... I enjoyed it, some great expressions - particulary liked the "insect shells of Trojan men" very evocative. Opening line nicely catches the waying motion in the words The setting of Aphrodite as a modern female celeb is caught very well in the expression...

It's odd - you say War Poetry / Fiction and people almost always assume you're talking about something written during or about WWI (i.e. Wilfrid Owen etc.). I made the same assumption myself when diving into this thread (see my post above). Glad to see that this is opening up the discussion...

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Wow. Just finished this one and it's the first one by Trudi Canavan. The BM trilogy is now firmly on my radar. What a wonderfully colourful world she has created. From the different races to the age old conflict between religion and magic. Seemingly so similar but treated as though they...