Hey guys,

I'm wondering if anyone have read any books by Juliet Marillier? They are all historical fiction set in 15th/16th century Britain/Ireland, and most are based around a sort of magical quest with a bit of romance. I've just finished Heart's Blood and am dying to write something similar!

So what I thought was that we could base the story in the 15th century, but at the same time make up a parallel world to it, with lots of mythical creatures and magic and stuff. And there could be a massive quest! I don't know what kind of quest as of yet, but that's what collab brainstorms are for, right? The whole idea is still very vague, but it's historical fiction with a quest and some romance along the way.

So there would definitely be a heroine and a hero, maybe an evil force, but I'm not certain on the number of collaborators we should have. I'd like to write for either the heroine or hero though :)

Anyone interested?

Henry VIII and Elizabeth I sounds good to me! I know a bit more about the Tudor than the period previous, to be honest :) (actually there was a time I completely obsessed with the Tudors and read all that I could read about them...) So any ideas?

Is there any other medieval/renaissance period you're more comfortably with? Unless if you don't mind doing Tudors. They're actually really interesting, what with the whole Henry VIII and his 6 wives, and Queen Bloody Mary as well.

As in suggest something to read or suggest another topic? If it's something to read, then I recommend starting with Henry VIII and his first two wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. There are a lot of novels out there that are really good, but I dunno if the ones I've read would be to your taste since they were based mainly around the women and is more feminine.

I haven't read The Other Boleyn Girl, although it's somewhere near the top of my to-read list atm :) I've read heap of other ones about them though, but this was a few years ago so my memory's a bit rusty. I've read all the ones by Carolyn Meyer and a few others that I can't remember...

The Civil War is interesting too! Although the only novel I've read of that is Gone With The Wind, so I don't know as much. But I do know WWI and the Russian Revolution relatively well, since we did that for history last year. So we can do that as well if you prefer?

WWII is a good idea! So shall we settle on that? (although I kinda secretly want to write about the Tudors as well xD)

Well there are just us three so far :) Naww come on do just this one collab, you can break a promise once in a while xD It doesn't need to be like those hard core collab with a million updates a week, we can just work around our schedules if you'd like.