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.
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.
Writing posts about the Hittite Queen Puduhepa. Two archaeological excavations of Mycenaean warrior tombs.
My review of Lady of the Seven Suns. To read Lady of the Seven Suns is to savor that rarest of reading pleasures: you will live another person’s life to the full, vicarious time travel at its empathetic best.
I use a story board & lots of colored postits to lay out my novels. In archaeology news: a variety of finds from Bronze Age Paphos on Cyprus, a collection of female, ritual items from Pompeii & earliest layer of Troy.
An enjoyable Rhys Bowen book launch at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. In archaeology: a newly excavated Pompeian treasure box & evidence of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem
