What makes a young woman pick up a sword against a powerful Greek Warrior? Click through to find my guest post on Linda Collison’s blog “Sea of Words” about character motivation in Hand of Fire. If my heroine, Briseis, were a warrior princess, the sort we often find in fantasy novels or in history through women like Britain’s Boudica, that would be easy to answer. But the Briseis I got to know was no warrior. Click here to read more.