Viking Saga -- Free Historical Novel - Page 2

MarkCoakley · 11-15-2009, 05:21 PM

Yes, Viking Saga is a modern fiction, written by me. The description says Viking Saga is a novel written in 2009 by Mark Coakley, the "translator's note" is dated 2010, and there are many other internal clues ... The "false document" is a long-standing fictional device that was used in the very first novel, Robinson Crusoe, which Defoe presented as the diary of a shipwrecked sailor ... Wikipedia has a good article about false documents -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_document ... It's not done to trick readers, but to make it easier to willingly suspend disbelief ... Should I make it more obvious?

PS -- The two saga's mentioned by Ea happen to be my two favourites, and used as research for Viking Saga. The book uses a lot of saga conventions, while trying to jazz it up a bit for modern tastes.

Patricia · 11-15-2009, 05:27 PM

I've got no problems with the literary device, Mark.

AprilHare · 11-16-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Ea

Mark, have you thought about converting this book into ebook formats such as .mobi/prc or epub?

I would certainly be interested to have look, being Dane with a great historical interest the late Scandinavian iron age.

EDIT: Um... you have a typo in the foreword: "Sturulson"

It's straightforward to generate epub.
Aspose.Words for Microsoft Word 2007 converts Word documents straightforwardly to epub and you can do any chapter and TOC/Meta editing using sigil. Easy peasy!

MarkCoakley · 11-17-2009, 11:16 AM

Here are two more formats: .epub and .mobi ...

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11-15-2009, 05:21 PM	#16
MarkCoakley Viking Saga Posts: 10 Karma: 130 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto / Valhalla Device: http://markcoakley.wordpress.com/	False Document Yes, Viking Saga is a modern fiction, written by me. The description says Viking Saga is a novel written in 2009 by Mark Coakley, the "translator's note" is dated 2010, and there are many other internal clues ... The "false document" is a long-standing fictional device that was used in the very first novel, Robinson Crusoe, which Defoe presented as the diary of a shipwrecked sailor ... Wikipedia has a good article about false documents -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_document ... It's not done to trick readers, but to make it easier to willingly suspend disbelief ... Should I make it more obvious? PS -- The two saga's mentioned by Ea happen to be my two favourites, and used as research for Viking Saga. The book uses a lot of saga conventions, while trying to jazz it up a bit for modern tastes. Last edited by MarkCoakley; 11-15-2009 at 05:28 PM. Reason: added a PS

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11-15-2009, 05:27 PM	#17
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	I've got no problems with the literary device, Mark.

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