My weekly web favorites: Egyptian Papyrus with hangover remedy, Jane Austen’s world by M.M. Bennetts, conversation about comic war novels with David Abrams and Viet Thanh Nguyen, cartoon via Janet Rudolph, Sudan’s Meroe Pyramids
I have a guest post on Heroines of Fantasy about Briseis and finding voice. Briseis is right at home on this blog among the strong women and tales of adventure, magic, betrayal and war.
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: a small town dig of Minoan Crete, Liza Klaussmann on enriching the “real” with the fictional in Historical fiction, a rave review of Ben Kane’s latest Roman book, remembering Harry Hoffner monumental Hittitologist, the apparent translucency of marble & what that means to ancient Greek temples, and Donis Casey on the pain of slicing & dicing one’s manuscript.
M.K. Tod’s annual survey of reading habits and preferences. A very useful tool for all of us writing historical fiction.
Reminder AZ HNS meeting this Saturday April 25 2-4 with Marcia Fine. My favorite posts around the web this week: Neanderthals in limestone and making music, interview with Nancy Bilyeau, Susan Spann on Female Samurai Warriors, David Waid on ancient shipwreck, Italian history in the basement and Museum makeover
My favorites around the web this week: an interview about Hand of Fire by Fiona McVie, Kate Atherton’s review of Lindsey Davis’s Deadly Elections, and Neolithic and Mycenaean graves of great interest in Greece.
Steve Weigenstein, whose novel This Old World is also on the long list for the MM Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction, posted an interview and review of Hand of Fire.
My favorites around the web this week: Laura Kelley on ancient chilis, clever engineering in the Acropolis, Laura Libricz on Dutch East India Company, Nancy Bilyeau on how much violence in Tudor fiction, a cartoon for the linguistically delighting, Elizabeth Chadwick on Medieval gambling, and Simon Wood on building a villain.
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
