Pompey the Great’s youngest son, Sextus, is featured throughout three of my books thus far. Betrayal and murder are not uncommon throughout ancient Roman history, but young Sextus was dealt a particularly cruel hand in every respect. The teenage chancer who fought Julius Caesar in Libertas did his utmost to keep the… Read More »Sextus Pompey – Angry Youth and Vengeful Pirate, by Alistair Forrest
Five years after the 2009 debut of my first historical novel, Rubies of the Viper, I began work on its sequel, The Viper Amulet, which was published in 2017. When that second book’s own sequel, The Ruby Ring, is finished in 2019, it will complete the sprawling first-century family saga… Read More »The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Writing a Fictional Sequel by Martha Marks
The third novel in my Tales of Ancient Rome saga is entitled Call to Juno. It is set in the final year of a ten year siege between the Etruscan city of Veii and the nascent Republican Rome in 396 BC. These cities were situated only 12 miles apart across… Read More »Evocatio: How to Woo a Goddess by Elisabeth Storrs
Priestesses and Prostitutes, a boxed set that contains a novella and three novels by members of the Historical Fiction Authors Cooperative, is only 99 cents until March 31. This boxed set can be found on Kindle, Kobo, iTunes, and Nook. ♦♦♦♦♦ Two women struggle for survival and understanding in the wake… Read More »Priestesses and Prostitutes: Four Novels of Ancient Times
Repost of an interview that Steve Donoghue, managing editor of Open Letters Monthly and an HNS American editor, did with Andrew Levkoff…our newest HFAC author. Open Letters: Your new book, Blood of Eagles, brings to a close the trilogy telling the story of Marcus Crassus and his slave Alexandros. How… Read More »Interview of Andrew Levkoff