Weekly Posts

Writing Hittite magic. In archaeology: new finds at Pompeii, frescoes, horses and homes

Cooking up Bronze Age foods. In Archaeology: Saturnalia the Roman precursor to Christmas and 536, the worst year ever to be alive

Click through to post for the Reddit Fantasy Writer of the Day Link. This Monday I’m Writer of the Day on Reddit Fantasy. In archaeology: perfect pita among the hunter-gatherers and Roman punny potty humor in mosaics

Balancing magic & psychology in my fantasy writing and in Archaeology: gold coins hidden from Crusaders & a meteoric explanation of Sodom’s demise

Priestess of Ishana, 1st book in my new series, is now available. In archaeology news, new fresco discovered in Pompeii and another gear of the Antikythera mechanism

My favorite writing project this week: build a better fictional room. Archaeology posts I enjoyed: mysterious Egyptian discoveries and a WWI artifact with heart

I’m off to Tucson Comic-Con this weekend to hang out with fantasy writers. From archaeology around the web this week, an extremely early geometric seal and some “dead sea scroll” forgeries from the Bible Museum

In this week’s post I show how I wrangle order out of chaos in the plotting of my next fantasy novel, and I share two archaeology updates about imaging Linear B and an intact Greek shipwreck that looks just like the “Siren Vase” in the British Museum

Archaeology posts I enjoyed this week: Cycladic figurine find on Santorini and the hand of god, Roman-style from Vindolanda England. Also a video of Leonard Nimoy explaining the Jewish origins of his famous hand gesture as Spock because this Roman hand of god find got me thinking about the universality of divine hand gestures.