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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.

Roundup of Archaeology and History August 11 – August 17

My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: a 4th c BCE pebble mosaic of cupid and swans, “ancient baking” of cuneiform pop-tarblets, an upcoming novel of Troy and Briseis by Man Booker winner Pat Barker

Roundup of Archaeology and History July 28-August 3

My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: New Bronze Age Cyprus finds that reveal sudden departure of inhabitants in the face of acute danger and a ‘Romeo & Juliet’ burial along with a chariot driven by 2 sacrificed horses fr Bronze Age Kazakhstan

Roundup of Archaeology and History July 21-July 27

My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: Geophysical survey reveals 15 more temples and 200 standing stones at Turkey’s Göbeklitepe Neolithic site and the most disappointing Egyptian sarcophagus ever reveals its sealed contents.

Roundup of Archaeology and History July 7-July 13

My roundup of history and archaeology: new finds on Cyprus fr rural early Bronze Age life to Hellenistic fortifications, Roman-era plaque with lines of Odyssey found, a history of steel (& iron)

Roundup of Archaeology and History June 30-July 6

My round up of history and archaeology: carbon dating ancient cosmetic residues, the decapitated Pompeii skeleton tells more, Hobby Lobby’s looted tablets reveal details about a lost Mesopotamian city, a dig on Cyprus keeps revealing more and more about its Bronze Age glory.

Roundup of Archaeology and History June 23-June 29

Here’s my weekly roundup of history and archaeology: hidden instructions under the paint of Greek vases, ancient Near Eastern map-making, Sumerians and seafaring, a review of The Storm that I liked as much for what it had to say about writing as for it’s excellent introduction to a new historical novel.

Book cover, Breath of Earth by Beth Cato

Review of Breath of Earth by Beth Cato

Beth Cato delivers page-turning fantasy adventure in the first two of her Blood of Earth series, Breath of Earth and Call of Fire. Ingrid, Breath of Earth’s hero reveals magical geomancy skills that can tip the balance of the world, politically and physically, and that makes for an exciting plot and fast-paced action, but Cato gives her reader even more. She’s built an alternative history (set in 1906) that flips the prism through which we understand our society.