Tucson Festival of Books, Book lovers heaven coming March 15-16! Around the web: getting at the truth with HF, Viking fiction with Richard Lee, Stephanie Dray on Cleopatra Selene’s identify crisis, ancient color blindness, & a podcast re Jessica Brockmole’s epistolary novel.
What I’m working on and how: My Writing Process, a Blog Hop
Downton Abbey, ancient helmets, the Sixities as HF, microbes in Pompeii, Speller’s WWI novel, ancient climate change & the Argo sails again.
My fav’s fr the web this week: aliens at Pyramids, what a copyeditor does & an app for Hemingway’s style, Kim Rendfeld’s writing process, & my nominee for best-written review, Ron Charles on A Burnable Book.
Next AZ HNS meeting April 5, history of sex, Ann Chamberlin. Links to archaeological finds fr 9000 yr old linen to a bronze Apollo. Historical preservation of sacred buildings. Tips on historical fiction fr Stephanie Dray, character motivation by me, cover art, and lively medieval games by Tinney Heath.
What makes a young woman pick up a sword against a powerful Greek Warrior? My guest post on Linda Collison’s blog “Sea of Words” about character motivation in Hand of Fire.
Reminder: Feb 8th AZ HNS meeting 1-4 with Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly. Venetia Lewis guest posting today about Cochise, a band of Apaches and a small sign that tickled her imagination.
New Sappho poems discovered and two good historical fiction reads by JF Ridgely and Cynthia Neale.
Announcing the publication date for my novel, Hand of Fire : September 10, 2014.
Delve in the royal day of the Hittite Queen Puduhepa.
