Weekly Posts

What makes a young woman pick up a sword against a powerful Greek Warrior? My guest post on Linda Collison’s blog “Sea of Words” about character motivation in Hand of Fire.

New Sappho poems discovered and two good historical fiction reads by JF Ridgely and Cynthia Neale.

New Egyptian tomb, interviews with Deborah Swift, Sam Thomas, Tom Rizzo & advice on how to write historical fiction.

Challenged Heroes at RT New Orleans, AZ HNS FEb 8 meeting with Shona Patel, Tucson Festival of Books, ancient Greek foodie techniques, prizes and surveys to rock the HF world. Get it all here!

A wedding, historical anecdotes, good books, and some very old, bad wine. What I enjoyed on the web this week and why I’ve been away.

Around the web this week: Doggy humor, HF author news fr James Rollins, Rebecca Cantrell, Jess Steven Hughes, Shona Patel, Odysseus’s journey & why historical fiction matters.

My finds on the web: Gate to the underworld found, history makes you happy and Pompeii is tumbling from corruption.

My “Meet the Contributor” post is up on Unusual Historicals.

E.L. Doctorow, Bloody Mary, Egyptian love story on a tomb, blogging medievally, getting it together with Scrivener, “Selfie” word of the year?!

Mummies, hemlock & other poisons, ancient libraries, tracking folktale origins and an excellent WWI book by Elizabeth Speller. Everything that caught my interest on the web this week.