Tag: PATAPAN
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Being Factual in an Alt History Story
I’ve been doing a lot of research for PATAPAN. I’ve nailed down most of what I needed (or what I didn’t already have). I am taken aback by how many people are shocked that I would do research for an alternate history story. I’m changing the history as it’s been taught to us. It’s important…
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Anything but Perfect
I’m working on a new wip and I think I’ve made a few mistakes in the opening chapters. Specifically, I’ve introduced the romantic interest a little early maybe? Or maybe I did not. I’m not quite sure yet. And you know what? It doesn’t matter. Well, it matters a little based on where I go…
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Patapan
The year is 1816. President Benedict Arnold made the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon Bonaparte thirteen years previous. Defeated at Leipzig and driven from the French throne by the Sixth Coalition, Bonaparte fled to New Orleans. There French loyalists rallied around their emperor. They seceded as a US territory and declared themselves New France (Burgundy?). Napoleon’s…