Posts I enjoyed this week: Ancient Greek Inventions, archaeology in Turkey both Neolithic and Late Bronze Age, Shona Patel’s Flame Tree Road and Kate Quinn’s Lady of the Eternal City, Nailing your Email Subject Line by Sharon Bially
Don’t forget to register for the WriteNow! Conference. Some posts I enjoyed this week: a cartoon via Janet Rudolph, writing advice from Marcy Kennedy and Donald Maas, paint on Greek statues in Pella
Here are the posts I enjoyed this week: 5th C mosaics in the Galilee with Dionysus, Capturing one second of detail in writing by Barbara O’Neal and the Power of Fiction by Jo Eberhardt
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Viking sword, writing tips from Laura McNeill, mythic Celtic monsters, Dickens, and the truth about Bloody Mary fr Nancy Bilyeau.
Posts I enjoyed this week: Etruscan bling by Elisabeth Storrs, Linen fragment with Cleopatra’s father’s name on it, using adj and adverbs wisely by September C Fawkes, and those Greek statues were really brightly colored!
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Egyptian papyri, Israeli ritual bath 1 C CE, wrap-up HNS from Nicole Evelina, a writing cartoon fr Janet Rudolph & BoookBub advice
A guest post from Justin Aucoin, who loves highwaymen and pirates. Today he’s telling us about the historical background to his novel Honor Among Thieves set among 17th Century highwaymen.
Some posts I enjoyed this week: Two recaps of HNS Denver 2015 fr Kate Quinn and Pat Bracewell, anachronisms in Historical Fiction?, difference between historical romance and historical fiction with a romantic element, 4th of July mysteries, resurrecting book tours?
Midwifery: Magic or Medicine, my panel talk at the Historical Novel Society Convention in Denver 2015
I’m off to the Historical Novel Society Conference in Denver. Here are the posts I enjoyed this week: “Twitter Novel” cartoon fr Janet Rudolph, humorous very bad reviews for Grey via January Magazine, Catherine of Aragon and Blackfriars by Nancy Bilyeau, 6 million dog mummies found in Egyptian dig, Greek mystery religion fr Samothrace exhibit at Athens Acropolis Museum & Sonoran spring photos by Melissa Crytzer Fry–gorgeous!
