Revised submission guidelines

Based on some comments / suggestions from Skarr, whose help in developing this site has been invaluable, I am deciding to expand the scope of submissions, as he feels that it is too narrow, particularly for those new authors whose works either exceed the ebook maximum word count or whose works are available only in the printed form.

I am therefore revising the submission guidelines and will update that section of the site shortly. At this moment, works which are available in the printed form or whose length exceeds the maximum word count should be set in either ancient Rome / Greece or in the Victorian Era, as we have only two reviewers who have volunteered their services. In such cases, the preference is for the authors to directly contact the reviewers and arrange to have their material shipped, if they are accepted.

Skarr's vision is for this to become a growing online community of authors in the historical genre, so that authors and reviewers can help each other and also encourage new or unpublished writers to take the next step and get their works out to the public. This is based on his own private experience where he took ten long years from the moment he had an idea to the actual publishing, with no one to help or even offer any guidance along the way. He doesn't want other writers to go through the same experience and feels that a site such as this one would help those new writers who have a work or novel inside them but never get to the next stage, actually writing / completing their work and then getting this published.

All authors of historical fiction are therefore encouraged to participate and become team members of this community so that they can also post directly from their own blogs as I will grant access once they are accepted as a reviewer in a particular field.

Skarr does not wish to be the only reviewer for works in ancient Rome / Greece. His speciality is those periods before 100 BC and we therefore invite other writers to volunteer their services for later periods as Roman history covers a huge time span and is very well documented.