Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: a critique of Kolb on Troy’s location, a collection of 4 novels of ancient times by Stephanie Dray, Libbie Hawker, Rebecca Lochlann, Cheri Lasota, Analyzing skeletons found near Athens to reveal ancient politics and websites most helpful for writers.
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: 500 yr old Bible reveals Reformation secrets, Egyptian ostracon with alphabet practice, figuring out what immerses a reader and some good bks for good price: The Tapestry in paperback & 4 bk collection of historical mysteries
Posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Roman tavern in France shows shift from Celtic culture, a cartoon of writerly humor and the mystery of what’s behind King Tut’s tomb continues with ever greater details
I hope to see you at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Roman mosaics in Turkey, Etruscan tomb finds, deciphering Greek papyri, tel Kabri site reveals a possible winery, how to use backstory brilliantly
A delightful time at Left Coast Crime and some posts I enjoyed from around the web: chance find of Clovis people and mammoth, learning dialogue, 31 Mycenaean burials
Join me Feb 25-28 at Left Coast Crime. Here are some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: badger turns Bronze Age archaeologist, Roman restaurant in France, the Homer reading club talks Achilles and Harper Lee memories.
Some posts I enjoyed this week: interview with Andrew Levkoff re his Roman series, Mycenaean mine in Greece, interview with Priscilla Royal by Sharon Kay Penman and the Met colorizes the Temple of Dendur
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Pompeii’s casts get new life, prehistory of domesticated cats in China, Mayan Codices from Elle Jauffret and new ideas & old myth busting about Vikings.
I had a great time at the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference, details inside. Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: ancient footprints found near Tucson, new findings fr a venerable, excellent archaeological dig in Turkey, Çatalhöyük, linguists date your childhood fairytales to the Bronze Age, and an overview article about Hittites (in case you haven’t yet got the picture from this website…)
Catch up on Windy Lynn Harris’ great AZ HNS talk about getting short prose published. You can find a detailed write up by Kristen McQuinn. Also some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: cattish, deadly book humor, Laura Kelley on a Phoenician platter fr the Silk Road and King Midas gets a golden exhibit.
