Review of Blood Lance by Jeri Westerson
Westerson writes “medieval noir” with a sense of humor and a solid base of history, featuring Crispin Guest, a disgraced medieval knight, now The Tracker, a medieval version of a private detective.
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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.
Review of Garden of Stones by Sophie Littlefield
When we think of internment camps and WWII, we don’t think of California, Arizona and Utah, but we should. Sophie Littlefield’s upcoming book, Garden of Stones, which moves between WWII and the 1970’s and follows three generations of women, draws us into this shameful chapter of US history after the bombing of Pearl Harbor—the rounding up, financial ruin, and forcible detention of Japanese Americans in desolate camps.
Review of Rav Hisda’s Daughter by Maggie Anton
Author speaking in Phoenix 1/27 at Temple Emanuel. Coming of age story of a prominent rabbi’s daughter in 3rd century CE Babylon and Israel; full of incantations, sorcery and women’s customs.
Tarantino on History and Movies
Quentin Tarantino on history with a capital H and his new movie “Django Unchained.”
Story Anthology Named One of Best Books of 2012
Suspense Magazine named SoWest: Desert Justice, the anthology of mystery stories that includes my story “A Season for Death,” one of the Best Books of 2012.
The Next Big Thing: My Novel-in-Progress
The Next Big Thing Blog Chain: Judith Starkston’s novel-in-progress, Hand Full of Fire.
Review of The Sanctity of Hate by Priscilla Royal
Priscilla Royal has brought her fine historical and story-telling skills to a heartbreaking and complex period in medieval England: the treatment of Jews under Edward I. Murders, a love story, and mob violence make for a good mystery.
Review of iFrankenstein by Bekka Black (aka Rebecca Cantrell)
For Halloween: Bekka Black has retold Frankenstein in the 21st century by text, email, tweet, and web browsers, primarily for a teen audience.
Review of The Wrong Hill to Die On by Donis Casey
Set in Tempe, AZ in 1916 this gracious mystery takes on tough themes such as anti-immigration phobias and racism while keeping you turning pages to find the murderer among movie stars, lawyers, Pancho Villa’s men, and a couple caddish ladies’ men.
Review of The Terrorist Next Door by Sheldon Siegel
This is a scary book—not in the Halloween sense but because it portrays our collective “worse nightmare” in post 9/11 America: a bomber right here “next door” as Siegel’s title says. A mysterious person, identified as “the young man” until the end, brings Chicago to its knees with fairly low-tech bombs, high-tech tools and carefully planned villainy.