Hello do you like reading books?
I do love reading! I especially love historical fiction, which are books that take place in the past.
That's great because I actually write books about history!
You do? I've tried to write alternate history before, which is a form of historical fiction.
I prefer to write non-fiction but I do write fiction also.
I am too creative to do non-fiction. I once started writing an alternate history book that was about "what if" the Holocaust never happened.
I bet that was a great book!
Alternate history
Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English) (AH) is a genre of speculative fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently. These stories usually contain "what if" scenarios at crucial points in history and present outcomes other than those in the historical record. The stories are conjectural but are sometimes based on fact. Alternate history has been seen as a subgenre of literary fiction, science fiction, or historical fiction; alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of
The books she writes, in poetry and prose, explore African-American history from a children's perspective and relate the past to new generations. Her works are often inspired by true events, many of which took place in the areas where Weatherford has lived. In her Author's Notes for each book, she includes a portion of her historical research, from which her fiction or poetry emerged. In describing her purpose for writing to the School Library Journal, she says, "I want the books that I write that