Here are my favorite posts around the web this week: Hittite festivals by Sevil Conka, historical fiction writers and historians, interview with Nancy Bilyeau, Medieval priories by Priscilla Royal, photos of the desert in bloom and Homeric papyrus suffers ignominious fate.
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Boudica takes on the Romans by Faith Justice, fun facts re Rome fr the BBC, a reader cartoon, Hatra gets bulldozed, Wicked Women of the Old West by Chris Enss, keeping the big dollops of unsavory fat out of one’s historical fiction by Kate Forsyth
Here are my web favorites this week, lots of historical fiction recommendations and archaeology news. Join me at the Tucson Festival of Books this March 14-15
I’m thrilled to announce Hand of Fire has made it through the first round of judging for the prestigious MM Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. My fellow long-listers are an impressive group.
Tucson Festival of Books March 14-15. Come join Judith for two signings and two panels with authors Alex Kava, Becky Masterman, Thomas Perry, Elizabeth Gunn, Susan Cummins Miller, J.M. Hayes. From around the web: Mary Tod on Social Reading, Sevil Conka on Yasar Kemal.
My favorite posts this week around the web: an upcoming lecture in Phoenix on Egyptian archaeology, divination dig in Armenia, Nancy Bilyeau on Cromwell & Moore portraits, Sheila Dalton on 17th C contraception.
Interview with Judith Starkston about Hand of Fire on the UTube Channel, Fantasy Fiction Focus
My favorite posts around the web this week: Archaeology from Neolithic to Roman, Pat Bracewell’s research, saffron.
My favorite posts around the web this week: archaeology under siege in Turkey and Egypt, new find in Greece, historical accuracy when a great novel like Wolf Hall goes small screen, and mixing archaeology and imagination in Scotland with Louise Turner.
My favorite posts around the web recently: Donis Casey on War Cake, January Magazine on Harper Lee’s 2nd novel and why more women than men read historical fiction, archaeology news about Tutankhamun’s broken beard & Texan pictographs, and a “celebrity” historical fiction interview between Priscilla Royal and Sharon Kay Penman.
