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Release the queries!

So, I’ve started shopping my latest story. Here is the work-in-progress description. Next week, I’m thinking of adding another excerpt on the blog from later in story. Like the news lately, it’s about unarmed people gathering together and facing threat from armed forces. [UPDATE: Uh-oh, the scene also has a couple spoilers in it, so [...]

Posted 21 March 2011 † nickyp § Books § Marketing § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Speak no ill

A cartoon circa 1819 depicts the effects of policies such as the Gag Acts and the Six Acts as the shackling and gagging of British freedoms. The “common man” cannot speak ill of the government under pain of death and cannot rise because of the burden of taxation. In the background John Bull’s shop is [...]

Posted 25 January 2011 † nickyp § History § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Satire, 1819-style

From my research-pile, a snippet of one of the snarky songs of the late Regency period: WHEN full sedition’s stalking through the land, It then behoves each patriotic band      Of Noble Minded Yeomen Cavaliers; To sally forth and rush upon the mob, And execute the Magisterial Job      Of cutting off the Ragamuffin’s ears. HOW valiantly [...]

Posted 25 May 2010 † nickyp § History § Learning § Writing ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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