Posts I enjoyed this week: David Waid’s history of poisons, Mary Tod’s survey of historical fiction, archaeology in Turkey and Russia and the Pleistocene age, and literary self-pubing
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Margaret Spence’s “Cleopatra’s Molecules”, Copy Editors’ Pet Peeves, Oldest stone bracelet, revealing the storage rooms of Limassol, Cyprus Museum, PTSD historically speaking by Regina Jeffers, David Waid on writing styles
My weekly web favorites: Egyptian Papyrus with hangover remedy, Jane Austen’s world by M.M. Bennetts, conversation about comic war novels with David Abrams and Viet Thanh Nguyen, cartoon via Janet Rudolph, Sudan’s Meroe Pyramids
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: a small town dig of Minoan Crete, Liza Klaussmann on enriching the “real” with the fictional in Historical fiction, a rave review of Ben Kane’s latest Roman book, remembering Harry Hoffner monumental Hittitologist, the apparent translucency of marble & what that means to ancient Greek temples, and Donis Casey on the pain of slicing & dicing one’s manuscript.
M.K. Tod’s annual survey of reading habits and preferences. A very useful tool for all of us writing historical fiction.
My favorites around the web this week: Laura Kelley on ancient chilis, clever engineering in the Acropolis, Laura Libricz on Dutch East India Company, Nancy Bilyeau on how much violence in Tudor fiction, a cartoon for the linguistically delighting, Elizabeth Chadwick on Medieval gambling, and Simon Wood on building a villain.
Here are my favorite posts around the web this week: Hittite festivals by Sevil Conka, historical fiction writers and historians, interview with Nancy Bilyeau, Medieval priories by Priscilla Royal, photos of the desert in bloom and Homeric papyrus suffers ignominious fate.
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Boudica takes on the Romans by Faith Justice, fun facts re Rome fr the BBC, a reader cartoon, Hatra gets bulldozed, Wicked Women of the Old West by Chris Enss, keeping the big dollops of unsavory fat out of one’s historical fiction by Kate Forsyth
Here are my web favorites this week, lots of historical fiction recommendations and archaeology news. Join me at the Tucson Festival of Books this March 14-15
Interview with Judith Starkston about Hand of Fire on the UTube Channel, Fantasy Fiction Focus
