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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.

book cover & ebook The Versailles Formula

The Versailles Formula Cover Reveal

Cover Reveal! My friend Nancy Bilyeau has a new historical thriller coming out this spring called THE VERSAILLES FORMULA. She’s written another delicious historical thriller. Have a fun peek at her cover and premise.

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Rose of Jericho by Alex Grecian: Book Review

Set in nineteenth-century New England, Rose of Jericho combines gothic horror with historical fantasy. Among other thought-provoking strands, the novel asks what would happen to humankind without death.
I hope you enjoy my review.

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Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye, Book Review

I noticed this book on my shelf and was thinking how good it is. And somehow I never posted my review of it to my blog. Here it is. New York in 1846 when the city barely had a police force, featuring kidnapped slaves, murder, & party politics. I hope you enjoy my review of Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye.

Throne room fresco of bard and bird among the Mycenaean Treasures at Pylos

Mycenaean Treasures from Pylos

The treasures from the Griffin Warrior’s tomb excavated in Pylos Greece are going on display for the first time. And one of the exhibit’s stops might be close enough to attend. And there’ll also be lots from Nestor’s Palace. I’m excited!

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Daughters of Olympus, Hannah Lynn: Book Review

Recently, I’ve been especially interested in the renaissance of novels retelling Greek mythology through a feminist lens. I hope you enjoy this review of a retelling of the Demeter/Persephone myth, Hannah Lynn’s Daughters of Olympus.

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Dispelling a minty myth, pyramid peppermint

The case of the pyramid peppermint–truth or plunder? As someone who depends on a lot of scholarly assertions, I found this mystery and the clever sleuthing of two eminent Egyptologists highly entertaining. I hope you will, too.

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An Untimely Death, Interview with Simon Rose about his YA fantasy

I hope you enjoy my interview with Simon Rose about his latest YA historical fantasy novel with a dangerous trip back in time to WWII. Time travel can wreak havoc on history!