New Page: The Historical Genre

I have added the entire article on Historical Literature from sanhorizons to this blog under the title: The Historical Genre. I have had some feedback on this particular theme for which I am grateful. So now I complete the publishing of the article by adding it to this blog.

Steen Alexander

Historical Literature: new page

On my blog sanhorizons I have just created a new page entirely dedicated to historical literature. 

Just follow the link: The Historical Genre.

The new page on the historical genre figures under the parent page: Inspiration. This new page is about one of the genres I work within as an author, the other being the thriller. Both pages under Inspiration supplement each other as they examine and discuss the sources of inspiration for my own literature.

Finding the balance between History and historical fiction

On the new page, I analyse and discuss the challenges we authors meet when we set out to write historical fiction. I delve into the more tricky challenge of striking a proper balance between History and the literary genre of historical fiction; in other words, how to reconcile History with the literary genre.

Finally, I discuss the reasons for the immense popularity of the historical literary genre and draw on my own and other authors' experience as examples of how authors manage to use History, the academic discipline, as a source of inspiration and still produce fiction that is not drowned by historical details and facts but steers clear, as it were, of the many temptations to bend History to suit the plot.

I hope you will enjoy the new article.

Steen Alexander

Getting into Print

From www.sanhorizons.com 6 October 2015

Coming Release of Printed Novels

Hello

I just wanted to inform those of you who might be interested that two of my novels - four in all actually! - will be coming out as printed books during the coming months and no sooner than January 2016. I am currently in a process of starting up a new project for a novel and therefore rather busy. So I will be leaving the formatting and the cover design to professionals which I hope should increase the quality of the printed books.

Reading printed books is still preferred by most readers.

The four novels in question are: A River Flows and Remembrance Day: The Trilogy which contains all three novels of the Remembrance Day series, all published as ebooks on Amazon: Steen Alexander.

Meanwhile I hope and trust that the good people who will assist me with the publishing of my novels as printed books stick to the time plans. But I am confident that they will. During the coming months I will post news about the progress on this and more about the new project.

Take care

Steen Alexander

More on Education

Education: Both Perspectives

So far I have had quite a few positive comments on my, admittedly, rather haphazard presentation of the large, tentacular theme of education. First of all I would like to thank those of you who have shown interest in this important topic and I hope we can take this interest further.

Studying or teaching? Same challenge. A view from a seminar not yet started.

Having a professional international academic background and, currently, teaching on a voluntary part-time basis to enable me to write my next novel (!) as well as researching on teaching methods at the modern, globalised university, I would be extremely interested in exchanging ideas on this topic; and not only from LSE alumni like myself. Therefore, as mentioned elsewhere on this blog. I have decided to write regularly on this topic, here on these pages, and not open an additional blog on Blogger; well, at least not yet.

A new idea kindly suggested to me from a couple of readers and students was to cover both angles: studying and teaching. Until now I have mostly covered the students' perspective and not that of the teacher or lecturer nor, most importantly, the students who teach. Getting both views covered would surely be a great advantage for everybody, I agree, since teaching is a process of mutual exchange of views and impressions, not only knowledge. I thank you for this perspective and will definitely include both perspectives in  my coming blogs and articles. Then we will see if there will be a need for an independent blog or website reserved for this all-important topic.

All the best

Steen Alexander

Student working from home, connected to her college.