Post by account_disabled on Dec 12, 2017 13:40:55 GMT
Hello,
I do not know if this is the place for this but I'm currently working on my own historical fiction novel set in ancient Greece and I need to find some beta readers or just a test audience, if possible.
Now, this is not intended to be shameless self-promotion. I'm not trying to sell you guys anything, or I just need some help. I found that I have read elsewhere but I felt that this is the best place to find readers closer to the target audience.
"The Spears of Poseidon" follows an ancient Theban, called Alopeias (henceforth my name), who finds himself part of his city and unable to return. After a storm wreck the fleet he travels in, Alopeias finds himself and the surviving hoplites on strange shores, where he is sucked into the local politics. Through journeys in North Africa, Crete and southern France, Alopeias gains fame, glory and wealth before finally returning to Spartans. Thus, the book ends with Alopeias planning, with Pelopidas, to retake Thebes and subsequent volumes of what I am dubbing as the "Alopeiad" will focus on Alopeias, Pelopidas and Epaminondas in the rise and fall of the Theban hegemony and the fall of Sparta .
In terms of themes, there is discussion of God and men, war and loss, politics and love and fraternity. Its style is perhaps a merging of Homer's Odyssey and Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories.
If anyone has any interest in helping out a fellow and if any child or beta-reader or anything else, please let me know. And if this infringes on any of the codes of Historum then I again apologize but, as I said, this is for beta-readers, nothing else.
I did not find the right solution from the internet.
References:
historum.com/historical-fiction/126674-original-ancient-greek-historical-fiction.html
3D Explainer Video
I do not know if this is the place for this but I'm currently working on my own historical fiction novel set in ancient Greece and I need to find some beta readers or just a test audience, if possible.
Now, this is not intended to be shameless self-promotion. I'm not trying to sell you guys anything, or I just need some help. I found that I have read elsewhere but I felt that this is the best place to find readers closer to the target audience.
"The Spears of Poseidon" follows an ancient Theban, called Alopeias (henceforth my name), who finds himself part of his city and unable to return. After a storm wreck the fleet he travels in, Alopeias finds himself and the surviving hoplites on strange shores, where he is sucked into the local politics. Through journeys in North Africa, Crete and southern France, Alopeias gains fame, glory and wealth before finally returning to Spartans. Thus, the book ends with Alopeias planning, with Pelopidas, to retake Thebes and subsequent volumes of what I am dubbing as the "Alopeiad" will focus on Alopeias, Pelopidas and Epaminondas in the rise and fall of the Theban hegemony and the fall of Sparta .
In terms of themes, there is discussion of God and men, war and loss, politics and love and fraternity. Its style is perhaps a merging of Homer's Odyssey and Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories.
If anyone has any interest in helping out a fellow and if any child or beta-reader or anything else, please let me know. And if this infringes on any of the codes of Historum then I again apologize but, as I said, this is for beta-readers, nothing else.
I did not find the right solution from the internet.
References:
historum.com/historical-fiction/126674-original-ancient-greek-historical-fiction.html
3D Explainer Video