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I'll give the marketers full marks and someone will buy the stuff...sadly...
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Notice that they say "screen-accurate," not "historically accurate." They're honest about that, anyway.
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Quote:Notice that they say "screen-accurate," not "historically accurate." They're honest about that, anyway.
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What craftsmanship, what imagination! :wink:
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Quote:What craftsmanship, what imagination! :wink:
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Have any of you read the rest of the Aquila saga by Rosemary Sutcliff? The trilogy is fantastic, albeit I must agree dated! I am finished with my sequel to FIRST SPEAR Rudimenta and sent out queries to two different agencies. Manda....got any recommendations?
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Check out my FIRST SPEAR Rudimenta, 2009 Xlibris Press (or Amazon, BaM and B+N) first in a series based on the life/lives of the Centurions Caesar mentions in his Commentaries: Gaius Crastinus, Lucius Vorenus, Titus Pullo and Septimus Publius Bacculus during their initial training and service as 'Miles'. I have just finished the sequel: FIRST SPEAR Pro Denuo and have started FIRST SPEAR Acies Triplex but am looking for a new agent. Meanwhile I am headed to Barnes and Noble to pick up yours! I enjoyed the Sutcliff books much more than the movie but you are correct, she is terribly dated. My Legioaries are Spanish so they don't speak with a British accent as everyone likes to make them do! LOL!
Attached is the Prologue for FSPD.
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To Manda Scott: Check out my FIRST SPEAR Rudimenta, 2009 Xlibris Press (or Amazon, BaM and B+N) first in a series based on the life/lives of the Centurions Caesar mentions in his Commentaries: Gaius Crastinus, Lucius Vorenus, Titus Pullo and Septimus Publius Bacculus during their initial training and service as 'Miles'. I have just finished the sequel: FIRST SPEAR Pro Denuo and have started FIRST SPEAR Acies Triplex but am looking for a new agent. Meanwhile I am headed to Barnes and Noble to pick up yours! I enjoyed the Sutcliff books much more than the movie but you are correct, she is terribly dated. My Legioaries are Spanish so they don't speak with a British accent as everyone likes to make them do! LOL!
Attached is the Prologue for FSPD.
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To Manda Scott: Check out my FIRST SPEAR Rudimenta, 2009 Xlibris Press (or Amazon, BaM and B+N) first in a series based on the life/lives of the Centurions Caesar mentions in his Commentaries: Gaius Crastinus, Lucius Vorenus, Titus Pullo and Septimus Publius Bacculus during their initial training and service as 'Miles'. I have just finished the sequel: FIRST SPEAR Pro Denuo and have started FIRST SPEAR Acies Triplex but am looking for a new agent. Meanwhile I am headed to Barnes and Noble to pick up yours! I enjoyed the Sutcliff books much more than the movie but you are correct, she is terribly dated. My Legioaries are Spanish so they don't speak with a British accent as everyone likes to make them do! LOL!
Attached is the Prologue for FSPD, if I can get this stupid thing to work!
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Quote: I enjoyed the Sutcliff books much more than the movie but you are correct, she is terribly dated. My Legioaries are Spanish so they don't speak with a British accent as everyone likes to make them do!
It's questionable whether the 9th still received all of its recruits from Hispania by that time, so a 'British accent' may not be very wrong (an American accent, however...). I agree that Sutcliff is dated (terribly???) in some areas (and some sites she never visited due to her disability), but she remains unsurpassed in storyline, characters and atmosphere.
Quote:Attached is the Prologue for FSPD, if I can get this stupid thing to work!
Apparently you failed, for it did not appear (I had to delete 2 copies of this post though). :wink:
Why not send us a link instead?
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My apologies for not getting back with you sooner. Not sure how I would send it as a link. I am attempting to submit it as an attachment again.
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My guys don't speak with an American accent either! LOL
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To Vortigern Studies....no joy once again, I will get a link going over the weekend get it to you. I would put it here but too long! Email me if you want, bnielsen51yahoo.com
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