Weekly Posts

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.

Here’s what I found interesting this week–a varied assortment from good historical fiction reading to foodie history to writing advice to archaeology, and a bit of humor thrown in.

Announcing Fireship’s online book tours, expert’s overview of Historical Fiction, ancient foodie recipes, deciphering an historical mystery fr pollen counts, & a haunted Florentine tale.

Upcoming AZ Historical Novel Society meeting Nov 2 with Patricia Bracewell, Hittite and Canaanite archaeology goes wild, Amazon’s HF categories explained , humorous hats of the Renaissance. How’s that for assorted topics?

An amazing archaeological find of great importance to the study of Hittites, what you’ve been missing in your ebooks, book interviews with Gillian Bagwell and David Blixt, the most essential survey from the HNS about your reading habits and more!

Oldest known books, Iliad on the stage, Blixt on writing war, Ramses II uncovered and more. My favorite fr the web this week.