Mistakes authors make: addressing peerage
Published by Deanna Hoak November 27th, 2007 in blog, copyeditingBrenda Coulter has an interesting post over at Romancing the Blog about mistakes authors make when their characters are addressing British peerage. A lot of fantasy uses the same titles, so I think many here will find it enlightening.
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Ooh - thanks for the link! I’m not writing strict historical fantasy, but that will still be useful…