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.
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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.
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!
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom August 30-September 5, 2014
My favorites around the web this week: news about Hand of Fire, 19th C sisters who make fortune with their long hair, mysterious boulders solved, & BA copper smelting.
Publication events for the original edition of Hand of Fire
Publication events for the original edition of Hand of Fire
Nothing Personal, I Just Need to Kill You: A Guest Post by Kim Rendfeld
Kim Rendfeld talks about what happens when “the enemy” starts to feel like a real person in her latest release The Ashes of Heaven’s Pillar.
A gathering of friends on their Writing Process
Writers on their writing process: a blog hop with Marylee MacDonald, Judith Starkston, Nancy Bilyeau and Faith Justice
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom August 23-29
My weekly favorites around the web: Macedonian tombs & Canaanite wine cellars, the Iliad and China policy, writing teenagers in historical fiction (Deb Swift), and debunking medieval myths (Kim Kendfeld), and 17th C witch-hunting (Anna Belfrage).
Dressing a Trojan or Hittite Queen
Find out how I dress my royal characters from the Trojan and Hittite world–the evidence is a bit unusual!
Review of A King’s Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman
Sharon Kay Penman’s epic novel of the latter part of Richard the Lionheart’s life, A King’s Ransom, engages in some literary alchemy.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom August 16-22
My favorites on the web this week: archaeology breaking out all over, mystery tomb in Macedonia, Bronze Age baby rattles, Parthenon marbles, mummies and Deb Swift on writing a deaf character in the 17th C