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.
For my next book I’m researching Hittite funerals and Egyptian magic. In archaeology news read about “the largest find in over a century” of 30 coffins in Egypt and the excavation of a pilgrimage road in Jerusalem.
Join me Nov 9 for the launch of my latest book, Sorcery in Alpara, at Poisoned Pen Bookstore. Read archaeology news about modern topics found on cuneiform tablets and a newly excavated Roman gladiator fresco in Pompeii.
Preorder Sorcery in Alpara and receive a bonus short story. In archaeology news, read about pottery baby bottles and ten mythology travel destinations.
Priestess of Ishana, bk 1 of the Tesha series, is free on Amazon through Oct 6. In archaeology news, read about a marble head of Dionysus that became Renaissance wall filler.
Receive a free short story with your preorder of Sorcery of Alpara. In archaeology news, read about ancient Near Eastern bronze made with Cornish tin, a new stone carving of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the re-emerging Standing Stones of Guadalperal
Find the prelaunch special for Book 2 of the Tesha series, Sorcery in Alpara. In archaeology, read about a strange ritual burial on Cyprus and beautiful silver dragons in Mongolia.
My interview with Simon Rose, SciFi and fantasy writer and writing coach, about his Shadowzone series.
Sorcery in Alpara is coming! In archaeology, the early Greek invention of the construction crane and Bronze Age international trade routes.
Tinney Heath, author of Lady of the Seven Suns, visits my blog with a post about medieval cities and the intriguing life therein.
I’m outlining a new book. In archaeology, I enjoyed posts on mosaics from Galilee and a Bronze Age destruction layer with a clearly identifiable culprit.
