Comments on: Captain’s Surrender is reviewer’s choice at NOR http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/ Sailing paper boats down the rivers of Elfland Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: alexbeecroft http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-118 alexbeecroft Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:04:52 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-118 <blockquote>Yay! Congratulations! :) It is awesome that your book is such a huge success with the reviewers already, and I am looking forward to it more and more. :)</blockquote> Yay! Thank you :) Though I'm still braced and waiting for the backlash. I can't help feeling that somewhere really influential will hate it - though that may be because Eeyore has nothing on me when it comes to pessimism ;)

Yay! Congratulations! :) It is awesome that your book is such a huge success with the reviewers already, and I am looking forward to it more and more. :)

Yay! Thank you :) Though I’m still braced and waiting for the backlash. I can’t help feeling that somewhere really influential will hate it – though that may be because Eeyore has nothing on me when it comes to pessimism ;)

]]> By: alexbeecroft http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-117 alexbeecroft Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:00:47 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-117 <blockquote>That’s wonderful! And you thought you weren’t violent enough…! :D It’s interesting to see, though, how today’s violence, even the most heinous acts of cruelty, just “float by” while violence set in the 18th century makes people uncomfortable. Then again this proves that you master the art of making people care for the characters you created. :)</blockquote> *g* yes, I was worried that it might be a bit too fluffy, what with the happy ever after and everything. I suppose that most romance readers aren't the kind of people who would also go out and watch Saw 2. My tolerance for fictional gore has obviously been skewed by being an SF fan and watching things like Alien in my youth :) My tolerance for real life violence, otoh, is pretty much nil.

That’s wonderful! And you thought you weren’t violent enough…! :D

It’s interesting to see, though, how today’s violence, even the most heinous acts of cruelty, just “float by” while violence set in the 18th century makes people uncomfortable. Then again this proves that you master the art of making people care for the characters you created. :)

*g* yes, I was worried that it might be a bit too fluffy, what with the happy ever after and everything. I suppose that most romance readers aren’t the kind of people who would also go out and watch Saw 2. My tolerance for fictional gore has obviously been skewed by being an SF fan and watching things like Alien in my youth :) My tolerance for real life violence, otoh, is pretty much nil.

]]> By: alexbeecroft http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-116 alexbeecroft Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:55:03 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-116 <blockquote>Hee! That’s awesome! The comment on the violence did amuse me- I can understand people being disturbed by it, but I must say, if you succeeded in doing so, you’re only improving their historical knowledge. It wasn’t all butterflies and roses. ^^ I really REALLY want to get your book now, by the way.</blockquote> *g* Thanks, Pearlsie :) I guess that in our modern world where you aren't allowed to so much as smack your children, a flogging comes as a bit of a shock! But then it ought to, I reckon. You don't want your villains to come across as too namby pamby! Hee! *Encourages you further in your desire to get the book...* :D Thank you!

Hee! That’s awesome! The comment on the violence did amuse me- I can understand people being disturbed by it, but I must say, if you succeeded in doing so, you’re only improving their historical knowledge. It wasn’t all butterflies and roses. ^^

I really REALLY want to get your book now, by the way.

*g* Thanks, Pearlsie :) I guess that in our modern world where you aren’t allowed to so much as smack your children, a flogging comes as a bit of a shock! But then it ought to, I reckon. You don’t want your villains to come across as too namby pamby!

Hee! *Encourages you further in your desire to get the book…* :D Thank you!

]]> By: wulfila http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-115 wulfila Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:48:35 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-115 Yay! Congratulations! :) It is awesome that your book is such a huge success with the reviewers already, and I am looking forward to it more and more. :) Yay! Congratulations! :) It is awesome that your book is such a huge success with the reviewers already, and I am looking forward to it more and more. :)

]]> By: joyfulmolly http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-114 joyfulmolly Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:07:43 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-114 That's wonderful! And you thought you weren't violent enough...! :D It's interesting to see, though, how today's violence, even the most heinous acts of cruelty, just "float by" while violence set in the 18th century makes people uncomfortable. Then again this proves that you master the art of making people care for the characters you created. :) That’s wonderful! And you thought you weren’t violent enough…! :D

It’s interesting to see, though, how today’s violence, even the most heinous acts of cruelty, just “float by” while violence set in the 18th century makes people uncomfortable. Then again this proves that you master the art of making people care for the characters you created. :)

]]> By: Pearlsie http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Pearlsie Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:25:16 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-113 Hee! That's awesome! The comment on the violence did amuse me- I can understand people being disturbed by it, but I must say, if you succeeded in doing so, you're only improving their historical knowledge. It wasn't all butterflies and roses. ^^ I really REALLY want to get your book now, by the way. Hee! That’s awesome! The comment on the violence did amuse me- I can understand people being disturbed by it, but I must say, if you succeeded in doing so, you’re only improving their historical knowledge. It wasn’t all butterflies and roses. ^^

I really REALLY want to get your book now, by the way.

]]> By: alexbeecroft http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-112 alexbeecroft Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:39:56 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-112 LOL! Thanks so much Ruth :) *g* Well I'm going to have to learn to relish my reputation for sadism ;) Mind you, if I could make it arrive faster, I would. Not long now though! Only about a fortnight. Woohoo! Are you thinking about a Wordpress blog at all? I would be glad to help you set one up :) Merry Christmas, if I don't hear from you again before then, and a Happy New Year! Alex B (I like that - I sound like a rap star :) ) LOL! Thanks so much Ruth :) *g* Well I’m going to have to learn to relish my reputation for sadism ;) Mind you, if I could make it arrive faster, I would. Not long now though! Only about a fortnight. Woohoo!

Are you thinking about a WordPress blog at all? I would be glad to help you set one up :)

Merry Christmas, if I don’t hear from you again before then, and a Happy New Year!

Alex B (I like that – I sound like a rap star :) )

]]> By: Ruth Sims http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Ruth Sims Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:52:55 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-111 Definition of Cruel and Inhuman Punishment: not flogging, but having to wait for the release of Captain's Surrender while reading such great reviews! Flogging is mild by comparison. Congratulations, Alex B. I can hardly wait. Ruth Sims Definition of Cruel and Inhuman Punishment: not flogging, but having to wait for the release of Captain’s Surrender while reading such great reviews! Flogging is mild by comparison.

Congratulations, Alex B. I can hardly wait.

Ruth Sims

]]> By: alexbeecroft http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-110 alexbeecroft Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:33:42 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-110 Thanks! Ah, but no, it was more based on Mr. O'Brian's description of the prisoners at Botany Bay - walking off after thousands of lashes, with blood puddling in their shoes. Mine was slightly less extreme, I thought. But then I had a flogging captain on my hands, and he had to be bad enough even to appall his own officers - so it had to be on the far extreme of naval violence. Thanks! Ah, but no, it was more based on Mr. O’Brian’s description of the prisoners at Botany Bay – walking off after thousands of lashes, with blood puddling in their shoes. Mine was slightly less extreme, I thought. But then I had a flogging captain on my hands, and he had to be bad enough even to appall his own officers – so it had to be on the far extreme of naval violence.

]]> By: esteven http://alexbeecroft.com/2007/12/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/comment-page-1/#comment-109 esteven Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:04:36 +0000 http://alexbeecroftblog.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/captains-surrender-is-reviewers-choice-at-nor/#comment-109 So very pleased for you. I can't wait to read it. :D If you based your perception of violence on Mr O'Brian, who portrays one of the mildest (in terms of punishment handed out) captains, your reviewer certainly never read a lot period stuff. *g* Again, well done you! So very pleased for you. I can’t wait to read it. :D If you based your perception of violence on Mr O’Brian, who portrays one of the mildest (in terms of punishment handed out) captains, your reviewer certainly never read a lot period stuff. *g*

Again, well done you!

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