Hittite Law of Adultery
The Hittite law of adultery
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.
The Hittite law of adultery
Posts I enjoyed around the web: Alison Morton on Hollywood’s Roman bloopers, Turkey rebuilds Roman Triumphal arch, keeping tension in scenes by Anna Elliot and puzzling new words in the dictionary.
My weekly web favorites: Egyptian Papyrus with hangover remedy, Jane Austen’s world by M.M. Bennetts, conversation about comic war novels with David Abrams and Viet Thanh Nguyen, cartoon via Janet Rudolph, Sudan’s Meroe Pyramids
I have a guest post on Heroines of Fantasy about Briseis and finding voice. Briseis is right at home on this blog among the strong women and tales of adventure, magic, betrayal and war.
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: a small town dig of Minoan Crete, Liza Klaussmann on enriching the “real” with the fictional in Historical fiction, a rave review of Ben Kane’s latest Roman book, remembering Harry Hoffner monumental Hittitologist, the apparent translucency of marble & what that means to ancient Greek temples, and Donis Casey on the pain of slicing & dicing one’s manuscript.
M.K. Tod’s annual survey of reading habits and preferences. A very useful tool for all of us writing historical fiction.
Review of Nancy Bilyeau’s Tudor thriller The Tapestry, third in the Joanna Stafford series. Highly recommended
Reminder AZ HNS meeting this Saturday April 25 2-4 with Marcia Fine. My favorite posts around the web this week: Neanderthals in limestone and making music, interview with Nancy Bilyeau, Susan Spann on Female Samurai Warriors, David Waid on ancient shipwreck, Italian history in the basement and Museum makeover
My favorites around the web this week: an interview about Hand of Fire by Fiona McVie, Kate Atherton’s review of Lindsey Davis’s Deadly Elections, and Neolithic and Mycenaean graves of great interest in Greece.
My review of Priscilla Royal’s Satan’s Lullaby: a Medieval Mystery. Highly recommended