Well, the Facebook page merge finally happened. I'm not sure why they called it a merge, since everything from the second page disappeared, but at least now I only have one page to maintain. I need to rename the page now so it's associated with me as an author instead of with just my first novel, especially since I have two books and the audiobook should appear any day now.
I'm also continuing to research my next work, and it's going very well. I found three volumes of late-medieval poetry that have helped me enormously. They date from 1886, and the Luddite in me rejoices that an old technology still works. It was a real thrill finding them for sale online, thanks to alibris.com. Most of the texts I need are available online, but I find it hard to read a screen for any length of time. They're not the oldest books I own (that dates from 1865, and belonged to my great-grandfather) but they're in excellent shape, having been on the shelves of the Butler University library from 1925 according to the bookplate. I also bought a translation of another of my main character's works in prose and another book about her life during the Hundred Years' War. It examines her from a different perspective that I've found very interesting. All of these books I found in reading the notes of another book, which is a large part of the fun I have researching. My students simply plug something into Google; they never had to flip through a card catalog or dig through an editor's notes in search of ancillary texts. I also find it very cool to read the work of people who put their words and thoughts onto paper centuries ago. To my mind it's the ultimate form of immortality, and one I hope to establish for myself one day.
Happy Holidays, and Happy Reading!
