Posts I enjoyed this week: David Waid’s history of poisons, Mary Tod’s survey of historical fiction, archaeology in Turkey and Russia and the Pleistocene age, and literary self-pubing
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!)
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.
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
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.
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
I have a guest post on Heroines of Fantasy about Briseis and finding voice. Briseis is right at home on this blog among the strong women and tales of adventure, magic, betrayal and war.
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.
M.K. Tod’s annual survey of reading habits and preferences. A very useful tool for all of us writing historical fiction.
Reminder AZ HNS meeting this Saturday April 25 2-4 with Marcia Fine. My favorite posts around the web this week: Neanderthals in limestone and making music, interview with Nancy Bilyeau, Susan Spann on Female Samurai Warriors, David Waid on ancient shipwreck, Italian history in the basement and Museum makeover
