Achilles’s Wife Publication Day!

Achilles’s Wife releases today. I hope you’ll want to order your copy from Amazon (affiliate), Bookshop.org, Barnes&Noble, or Ingram. I’ll let acclaimed historical fiction author Margaret George introduce my new release:

“What was it like to be married to Achilles? Deidamia, princess of the small island of Skyros, his wife before he took his fated journey to Troy, was the mother of his only child, his son Neoptolemus. Here at last she tells her own story, speaking of how they met, married, and then parted. She knew Achilles the man rather than the warrior. She lets us see a side of him that Homer doesn’t. Unique, fascinating, and restores a long-lost voice to the story the Trojan War.”

–Margaret George, NYT bestselling author of Helen of Troy & The Splendor Before the Dark

Launch Party in Davis for Achilles’s Wife pub day

If you live in Northern California, join me for the launch party at Avid Reader in Davis at 6:30 Tuesday March 17. I’ll bring delicious Greek appetizers–dolmas, tiropites, olives, figs, and feta–just as Mia, my heroine, would enjoy. Food to put us all into the novel’s setting on the Greek island of Skyros!

More about Achilles’s Wife: Guest Post on Elisabeth Storr’s Triclinium

I wrote a guest post for Elisabeth Storrs excellent Triclinium blog about transforming this Graeco-Roman myth into a novel. The myth of Deidamia and Achilles poses some challenges for a novelist trying to place Deidamia (Mia) at the center of her own story. I love exploring the real life worlds of ancient women. And I love transforming them from minor side mentions in the myths to commanding, complex women.

The post on Triclinium starts:

When I set out to write Achilles’s Wife, my recently released novel of Greek myth retelling, I knew I was working in a well-established subgenre of historical fiction. In recent years, there have been several best-selling novels that reinterpret myths to develop feminist themes. Madeline Miller’s Circe, Natalie Haynes’s Stone Blind, and Costanza Casati’s Clytemnestra are three strong examples. A lesser-known myth drew my interest . . . Read the post “Powerful Mythic Retelling” on Elisabeth Storr’s website.