Hi, Kalen (and thanks again for invinitg me here),Sorry Iâ??m slow replying â?? we had thunderstorms rip through the Philadelphia area the other night, taking out our power, and my wireless â??net is only today finally back to normal. I totally agree about how hard it can be pitching the lesser-known or (::shudder:: ) unknown women as the subjects of the current crop of historical novels. Itâ??s especially hard given that most editors and agents arenâ??t especially familiar with history beyond the â??all-starsâ??, such as Anne Boleyn and Marie Antoinette. My own agent (whom I love dearly!) blithely asks if the Restoration is before or after Queen Victoria. Meanwhile, my editor would like me to come up with more women â??just like Sarah Churchillâ??, but women like Sarah are very few and far between in the 17th century. Iâ??ve had a couple of fascinating yet little-known ladies in history rejected myself, so Iâ??m not sure I can offer too much advice on how to buck the trend. The requirements seem pretty inflexible: the woman has to be familiar to modern readers, be closely tied to men in power, preferably a king, have enough of a life-story to fill a 130,000 word manuscript, and not do anything that might be a turn-off to the twenty-first century. Sex is great; religion and the arts are iffy. Oh, and it really helps if thereâ??s a dandy portrait for the cover-art. Though if youâ??ve been discussing this already, itâ??s likely youâ??ve already figured out all this by yourselvesâ?¦.

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