#WritersCoffeeClub Feb. 3 – What signature marks your work as definitively and effectively yours?

If it's English-language #historicalFiction and has a reconstruction of premodern Korean names based on philological research, historical #linguistics, and #etymology, it is almost certainly mine because I'm the only one to my knowledge connecting this linguistic scholarship to fiction in the Anglosphere. The modern phonetics of Sino-Korean Hanja are used indiscriminately in period fiction, in my opinion, despite a wealth of evidence that people in the period pronounced some of these words very differently.

This kind of linguistic reconstruction is especially important in my big WIP, which was pretty much launched by one such reconstruction of a 1st century BCE name. A short story prominently featuring speculative reconstructions of 15th century names (and not the names of royals, nobility, or men) is currently out on submission 🤞