Posts I enjoyed around the web this week.
2,000 yr old Egyptian mummy of a child saved from French dump goes on display. A lady cleared her basement and asked the dump worker where to throw a mummy. Fortunately he was alert and it went to a museum. Turns out one of Napoleon’s generals brought it to France in the mid 1850’s. Study shows she was a four-year-old girl named Ta-Iset. Click here for “Egyptian Mummy Found in Dump to Go on Display”
It’s Monday morning so perhaps a joke is called for. Via Janet Rudolph a novelist cartoon. Keep those safety records high, my writer friends–no contriving coincidences. Click here for Mystery Fanfare Cartoon
Interesting: Mary, a magazine by women for everyone. Response to dismal rate of female bylines. Kickstarting Click here for Capital “Magazine Women Writers Aimed at Everyone”
All the historical fiction at BEA. Even though I’m not going, I enjoyed Sarah Johnson’s excellent post with its short intro to each of the titles. I had to mark a couple titles to read, especially Geraldine Brooks’ The Secret Chord about King David. Fun to see what’s happening in HF. Who’s going to be there? Click here Reading the Past Blog “Historical Fiction Picks at BEA”
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 listed & linked in LitHub. Best Short Fiction of the Year. Comments on the winning stories, anyone? Or the journals they appear in? Click here for Literary Hub “The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015”
Medicine on Blackbeard’s ship. What underwater archaeology does for pirate studies. Some very painful procedures for naughty men. Helen Hollick, did you see this? Click here for Archaeology Magazine “Medicine on the High Seas”