The Northeastern Readers' Advisory Round Table's Genre: Historical Fantasy

Benchmark: Everyone Reads Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon.

We begin our Fantasy arc (three sequential meetings)  with Historical Fantasy, to be followed by Fantasy Romance in January 2015 and Fatansy Sagas in March 2015. In some ways this can be considered the fifth session on Historical Fiction; although we now change our primary focus to Fantasy and will be discussing the use of Historical elements in a Fantasy title. Notes on our Historical arc from September 2013 (Literary Historicals), November 2013 (Historical Sagas), January 2014 (Christian/Inspirational Historicals), and March 2013 (Historical Biography) can be found on our blog. The list of books and the notes on what we learned in our discussions on other genres are also available there.

Please read a 2nd title in the Historical Fantasy--look on the RA RT blog: for a list of suggested titles and some supporting materials.

Appeal to be read for November meeting: ***Focus on all the appeal factors, but really think about setting and tone.

Meeting every other month, the NE RA RT reads from one genre--and then discusses the appeal of that genre with each other emphasizing the building of a skill set of appeal categories and familiarity of genre particulars. They cover a different genre every meeting, allowing each of the participants to be introduced to the discipline of reading for appeal, as well as an initiation to broad genre categories. Everyone participating will be able to share analysis of titles and authors in unfamiliar genres that will stretch their capacity as readers' advisors.  The discussion leaders are Leane Ellis (ellis@noblenet.org) and Nanci Milone Hill (nhill@mvlc.org).