Achilles’s Wife Publication Day!
It’s pub day for Achilles’s Wife. Here’s Margaret George on my novel and a post about transforming this lesser-known Greek myth into a novel.
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Judith Starkston
Judith Starkston has spent too much time exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Their myths and clashes inspire her fiction and open gates to magical realms. She has degrees in Classics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories, and her novels imbue fantasy with the richness of ancient worlds. The first book in her Trojan Threads Series, Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana, the first in her historical fantasy Tesha series, won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. Judith is represented by Richard Curtis.
Ancient Kitchen, Hunter-Gatherer Neolithic style
Enjoy a tour of a Neolithic kitchen complete with grinding stones, ovens, and the hunter-gatherer equivalent of a refrigerator. And some recipes of Greek food to get you in the mood for my about-to-release novel, Achilles’s Wife. Have fun.
Achilles’s Wife for Preorder Amid a Riches of Myth Retellings
Books are not like refrigerators. One is never enough. That’s good news for my upcoming novel Achilles’s Wife.
The Cleansing, by Victoria Alvear: Book Review
The story of a Roman Vestal Virgin might not seem relevant, but in Victoria Alvear’s masterful hands, it most definitely is. This fast-paced, chilling novel is a feminist must read.
Guest Post: Red Snow in Winter
Max Eastern, author of Red Snow in Winter, offers insights into a little known part of WWII, German pows on American soil.
Achilles’s Horses & Cover Reveal of Achilles’s Wife
What do Achilles’s horses and Achilles’s Wife have in common? I’m talking about both of them in my cover reveal post for my upcoming novel of Greek myth retelling.
Murder on the Nile by Verity Bright: Book Review
In this humorous spoof of the cozy English murder mystery, Lady Eleanor Swift is off to Egypt where she’ll come upon a murder, of course. This is, after all, the 19th book in the series, so clearly this young woman cannot stay away from suspicious corpses. This is a good one for extremely light fun, which is kind of what some of us need these days. Enjoy my review.
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Book Review
Here’s my review of The Bewitching, a spellbinding gothic horror and winner of an Editors’ Choice award when my review appeared in HNR. Have fun with my review and a thought-provoking novel.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab: Book Review
Here’s my review of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by one of my favorite fantasy authors V.E. Schwab. I concluded this review thus, “the literary virtuosity glues the reader exquisitely to each page.” Enjoy!
Yearning for a “real” Trojan War
There’s an allure to the idea that we can lay our hands on proof that a Trojan War was real–and all that we associate with that. But there’s danger in that yearning. Where should the boundaries of history, archaeology, and myth lie?