Troy: History or Myth?
Can we say with reasonable certainty that we know where the real city of Troy is located and what life was like there during the period of a possible Trojan War, that is, the Late Bronze Age?
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Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom Sept 6-12
My favs around the web this week: interview with Ann Weisgarber, Helen Hollick on pirates, Nancy Bilyeau on Richard the Lionhearted, how to write real people into fiction, wondering if Achilles had ptsd, archaeological excavations of an ancient shipwreck and a tomb. A lot all in the same week Hand of Fire launched!
Birds in Clay: Hittite writing and scribes
The Hittites left behind large libraries of cuneiform clay tablets. I discuss the nitty-gritty of ancient systems of writing.
A Suitable Job for a Woman: Powerful Ancient Women Where You Don’t Expect Them
How the evidence shows surprisingly powerful ancient women to portray in my novel. Thought women were marginalized until the modern period? Think again!
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom August 30-September 5, 2014
My favorites around the web this week: news about Hand of Fire, 19th C sisters who make fortune with their long hair, mysterious boulders solved, & BA copper smelting.
Publication events for the original edition of Hand of Fire
Publication events for the original edition of Hand of Fire
Nothing Personal, I Just Need to Kill You: A Guest Post by Kim Rendfeld
Kim Rendfeld talks about what happens when “the enemy” starts to feel like a real person in her latest release The Ashes of Heaven’s Pillar.
A gathering of friends on their Writing Process
Writers on their writing process: a blog hop with Marylee MacDonald, Judith Starkston, Nancy Bilyeau and Faith Justice
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom August 23-29
My weekly favorites around the web: Macedonian tombs & Canaanite wine cellars, the Iliad and China policy, writing teenagers in historical fiction (Deb Swift), and debunking medieval myths (Kim Kendfeld), and 17th C witch-hunting (Anna Belfrage).
Dressing a Trojan or Hittite Queen
Find out how I dress my royal characters from the Trojan and Hittite world–the evidence is a bit unusual!