Minoan-Hittite Connection: When the Minoans Looked East
Historical author Laura Gill guest posts about the surprising connections between Minoan Crete and Anatolia.
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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 Sept 20-26
My weekly favorites around the web: Karen Randau’s interview, ancient tombs & frescoes, Anna Belfrage on royal gluttony
Sisters in Crime September Blog Hop
The Sisters in Crime September blog hop came to my corner of the world. What writers I am inspired by, my advice to novice writers and, most fun, meet the two remarkable historical authors I’ve tagged or been tagged by as we hop along.
The Trojan War: History or Myth?
Is the Trojan War history or myth? A question with a surprising amount of evidence to answer it.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Sept 13-19
Favorites on the web this week: Lindsey Davis on writing Roman, a smart review by Cynthia Robertson of Sarah Waters, inside historical fiction with Heather Lazare, an editor who knows, & digging up Alex the Great era tomb continues.
Review of Tita by Marie Houzelle
Review of Tita, a novel set in 1950’s South of France: Tita is not an exercise in blind nostalgia for a lost past. It is a rich and warm, yet open-eyed portrait of a place and time just beyond our current reach. It’s a book worth savoring.
Troy: History or Myth?
Can we say with reasonable certainty that we know where the real city of Troy is located and what life was like there during the period of a possible Trojan War, that is, the Late Bronze Age?
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Sept 6-12
My favs around the web this week: interview with Ann Weisgarber, Helen Hollick on pirates, Nancy Bilyeau on Richard the Lionhearted, how to write real people into fiction, wondering if Achilles had ptsd, archaeological excavations of an ancient shipwreck and a tomb. A lot all in the same week Hand of Fire launched!
Birds in Clay: Hittite writing and scribes
The Hittites left behind large libraries of cuneiform clay tablets. I discuss the nitty-gritty of ancient systems of writing.
A Suitable Job for a Woman: Powerful Ancient Women Where You Don’t Expect Them
How the evidence shows surprisingly powerful ancient women to portray in my novel. Thought women were marginalized until the modern period? Think again!