Review of The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
Set in Galveston in 1900, The Promise brings us inside two utterly different women’s voices and experiences as they cope with upheaval, loss and love. A masterful book.
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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.
AZ HNS Meeting & Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom March 22-28
AZ Historical Novel Society Meeting April 5: History of Sex. My favorites on web this week: oldest winemaking, Tolkien’s Beowulf, overview of historical romance, Celebrating Women continues w/ Catherine the Great, ancient female philosophers & Medici heroines.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom March 15-21
Great weekend at Tucson Festival of Books. Troy gets a new archaeological team, Achilles gets a satirical poke, Nancy Bilyeau id’s 8 Best Historicals, Alex the Great’s successor gets dug up and we’re Celebrating Women in an excellent series.
AZ Historical Novel Society & My Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom March 8-14
Next AZ HNS meeting April 5: Ann Chamberlin on the History of Sex. Weekly Web favorites include a remarkable queen via Kim Rendfeld, a storied Abbey via Nancy Bilyeau, Big Foot put to use inspiring the youth of America via Karen Randau and some new thinking about Petra.
Tucson Festival of Books and My Weekly Web Roundup March 1-7
Tucson Festival of Books, Book lovers heaven coming March 15-16! Around the web: getting at the truth with HF, Viking fiction with Richard Lee, Stephanie Dray on Cleopatra Selene’s identify crisis, ancient color blindness, & a podcast re Jessica Brockmole’s epistolary novel.
My Writing Process: Blog Hop
What I’m working on and how: My Writing Process, a Blog Hop
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Feb 22-March 1
Downton Abbey, ancient helmets, the Sixities as HF, microbes in Pompeii, Speller’s WWI novel, ancient climate change & the Argo sails again.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Feb 15-21
My fav’s fr the web this week: aliens at Pyramids, what a copyeditor does & an app for Hemingway’s style, Kim Rendfeld’s writing process, & my nominee for best-written review, Ron Charles on A Burnable Book.
AZ HNS News and Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Feb 1-15
Next AZ HNS meeting April 5, history of sex, Ann Chamberlin. Links to archaeological finds fr 9000 yr old linen to a bronze Apollo. Historical preservation of sacred buildings. Tips on historical fiction fr Stephanie Dray, character motivation by me, cover art, and lively medieval games by Tinney Heath.
Character Motivation; love-driven rage in the Bronze Age
What makes a young woman pick up a sword against a powerful Greek Warrior? My guest post on Linda Collison’s blog “Sea of Words” about character motivation in Hand of Fire.