What advice would you give neo-pagan authors?

[Blackbird]

www.digitalmedievalist.com/faqs/scholarship.html

Anything else anyone wishes to add? ;D

[beithann]

Good advice in there

Another bit I would give is

1) Present your work exactly as it is - if it's personal experience, or experience of others or you have just made it up, don't pass it off as something ancient and justified, and so on. Just because it isn't ancient, doesn't mean it isn't valid

2) Take advice from experienced authors, but remember, there is always an agenda.

3) Write a book entitled 'The Celtic Sex Secrets from King Athurs Court' you'll clean up

Beith

[Blackbird]

1. Agreed - I've got a lot of respect for authors such as Alexei Kondratiev, who proudly claims the bits he's invented as his very own work. And why not be proud of your own contributions, after all? I loved the calendar he created, based on the Song of Amergin. Inspired stuff.

2. Yep. It's interesting to look at how the modern political situation filters through into how we write our histories. It's obvious when looking at the Victorian authors, but we don't tend to recognise it when reading the likes of Francis Pryor... yet it's there all the same.

3. ;D We're getting there...