What if. The bread and butter of a writer’s life, eh? (Hey! I’ve been hanging around Dayna so long now I’m speaking Canadian lol. :)) Crystal and I chatted about what if and history the other day. It was an interesting discussion that I won’t bore y’all with here, but it’s been on mind since. I have a book coming out tomorrow that took what if and history went to town. In the world I built the plague didn’t just kill off half or more of Europe. It created new species–shifters and vampires. Since I took that much liberty with history, I just kept right on going. The what ifs were too intriguing, ya know? So it’s 1899, the Civil War never really ended, and steam is the technology of the day. I really loved writing this because all the rules went out the window except the ones I made. But I’m at a total loss as to how to promo it. I’m certain I’ll get emails or reviews or whatever lambasting my lack of historical knowledge lol. But the whole point of the story is what could have been, not what was.
So I’m trying to figure out how to promo it and I have two questions. Are you interested in reading or writing alternative history? And how would you approach promoting it? I’m wondering if I should put a yes I do know this isn’t history as you know it disclaimer on my website lol. 
January 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
erm. Dude, if we’re both claiming GGK as ‘desired genetic contributor’, you’d best be learning Canuck. We’d be sisters. (but not soul-sistahs, cuz I got no rhythm)
I LOVE the idea of writing alternate history. I love reading historical fantasy (duh!) I think….I like the idea that there was more going on than we knew…
However…I’m also scared of screwing it up.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I’m all about alternate history. I dont believe you have to explain yourself at all. apart from saying that-this happened instead of this. From there that world is all yours.
I am so excited-that story sounds amazing!
January 17th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Alternate History is a well established subgenre of Science Fiction. Promo it as SF.