{"id":1754,"date":"2008-11-13T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:13","slug":"put-on-your-bermuda-shorts-its-wbb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Put On Your Bermuda Shorts: It’s the WBBT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historical fiction.
It’s all over the place lately. Today’s Tollbooth<\/a> has a great thoughtful little piece about why we choose it, what it gives us, and what well-written historical fiction gives us, it’s well worth a read.<\/p>\n

Finished with that? Okay. Check out BookBoot’s historical fiction review<\/a> of Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free<\/i>. Ooh, some good stuff there, and the NY Times article from 1914<\/a> is just the icing on the very tasty cake. I liked historical fiction when I was a kid, but only as something “safe” to read for book reports. Oh, wow<\/i> am I finding a new love for it now. So, shoo. Go. Read.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Granted, the weather isn’t cooperating.
At home today it’s a balmy 79 degrees under blue California skies. However! This does NOT stop the party! Oh, no! It simply makes it a party with iced<\/i> tea rather than the piping-hot-in-bone-china variety.<\/p>\n

What am I going on about?<\/p>\n

The 2008 Winter Blog Blast Tour is upon us! And Wonderland is excited to bring you some of our favorite authors — including the fabulous:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Wein – bell ringing, plane-flying Nebula-nominated woman of many cities<\/a> — on Monday,<\/p>\n

D.M. Cornish – the cartooning, doodling, world-spinning writing man from Down Under<\/a> — on Tuesday,<\/p>\n

M.T. Anderson – who is giving new levels of cool to the name Tobias, and a whole new meaning to “historical fiction”<\/a> — on Wednesday,<\/p>\n

John David Anderson – the father of three-year old twins who still managed to write a fabulous Cybil-nominated fantasy novel — on Thursday.<\/p>\n

…and that’s just OUR little corner of the Universe. Louis Sachar, Tony DiTerlizzi, Ally Carter, John Green, Brandon Mull — and so<\/b> many more — don’t miss the full schedule and running daily round-up (posted this Friday) at Chasing Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cold or not, the fun starts next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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