Mummies, hemlock & other poisons, ancient libraries, tracking folktale origins and an excellent WWI book by Elizabeth Speller. Everything that caught my interest on the web this week.
Here’s what I found interesting this week–a varied assortment from good historical fiction reading to foodie history to writing advice to archaeology, and a bit of humor thrown in.
Announcing Fireship’s online book tours, expert’s overview of Historical Fiction, ancient foodie recipes, deciphering an historical mystery fr pollen counts, & a haunted Florentine tale.
Upcoming AZ Historical Novel Society meeting Nov 2 with Patricia Bracewell, Hittite and Canaanite archaeology goes wild, Amazon’s HF categories explained , humorous hats of the Renaissance. How’s that for assorted topics?
An amazing archaeological find of great importance to the study of Hittites, what you’ve been missing in your ebooks, book interviews with Gillian Bagwell and David Blixt, the most essential survey from the HNS about your reading habits and more!
Oldest known books, Iliad on the stage, Blixt on writing war, Ramses II uncovered and more. My favorite fr the web this week.
I’ve been interviewed about the long journey of writing a novel and getting it published on Karen Randau’s blog.
Posts around the web I found interesting this week. A mixture of historical fiction and history/archaeology.
See what I found interesting this week on the web about historical fiction, writing, history and archaeology.
Upcoming Dates: November 2, 1-4 pm (Patricia Bracewell, Shadow on the Crown) and February 8 (Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly)
Speaker: Patricia Bracewell, author of Shadow on the Crown
Food to bring: afternoon nibbles and sweets (email if you can bring)
Email Judith for directions
Click through to post to read my write-up of our last meeting and more about Patricia Bracewell.
