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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.

Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom May 24-30

News & posts this week: Judith is teaching ArtiFACTS to Fiction workshop Flagstaff June 13, Pat Bracewell on Bayeux Tapestry, Lit Hub on hilarious book tour, ancient music in Israel, HNS conference session schedule (including my midwifery panel w/ Diana Gabaldon!)

Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom May 17-23

Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Mummy saved fr French dump, writer jokes, Mary, Historical fiction at BEA by Sarah Johnson, The O. Henry Prize winners, & Pirate medicine fr underwater archaeology.

Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom May 10-16

Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Margaret Spence’s “Cleopatra’s Molecules”, Copy Editors’ Pet Peeves, Oldest stone bracelet, revealing the storage rooms of Limassol, Cyprus Museum, PTSD historically speaking by Regina Jeffers, David Waid on writing styles

Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom May 3-9

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.

Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom April 26-May 2

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

Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom April 19-25

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.