Looking forward to tomorrow, Saturday May 3, AZ Historical Novel Society Meeting with Fred Ramsay as our speaker. I’ve just returned from the Poisoned Pen with a pile of his excellent books so anyone who wants to get a copy will be able to.
I’ve been busy sending out review requests all week for Hand of Fire and I am so appreciative of the wonderful response. Now I can let that project sit while all those wonderful reviewers read away! Next, I’m buried in research books about Cyprus and other aspects of my upcoming research trip. I’ll keep you posted about my travel discoveries.
Here are some of my favorite posts from around the web this week.
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The ancient world is full of pomegranate symbolism. In Hand of Fire I dress Briseis in her bridal diadem made of golden pomegranates—a wish for fertility among her people. A lively post on pomegranates all over the world by Laura Kelly, including a lamb and pomegranate recipe. Link here
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Cartoon to make you smile: Best Murder Mystery Award goes to…. (via Janet Rudolph) Link here
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Ever wonder how those Egyptians moved the 2.5 ton blocks? They painted the answer for us on the walls. Now the technique’s been proven. So simple you’ll smack your head. Link here
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A long time ago I had a backyard full of elementary age girls making marbled paper for my daughter’s birthday. Still a happy if chaotic memory. Here’s a history of marbled paper from the indomitable History Girls. Link here
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How a lifelong love of reading became part of her characters’ worlds as well. Ann Weisgarber’s post about the influence of reading in her life and her fiction. I particularly love the window into Ann’s process as a writer in her comments about finding a way to get books into her character Rachel’s hands. If you’ve read Ann’s books, you know how intimately theme and action are melded and now I see a little bit “behind the curtain” of that thinking process. On Sarah Johnson’s blog Reading the Past. Link here
Normally I do not learn post on blogs, however I would like to
say that this write-up very pressured me to check out and do it!
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