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
Within British (and by that I mean Welsh/Cymry/Celtic) legend, a High Council—a Parliament of a sort—existed in the Dark Ages to choose a “high king”. One of these high kings, according to legend, was King Arthur. Later, during Arthur’s reign, he instituted his ’round table’, a gathering of equals, to… Read More »The High Council of Britain by Sarah Woodbury
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me.” ~~~~Robert Louis Stevenson In The Child of the Erinyes, a series dealing with reincarnation, only one of the main characters retains memories from previous lives. Because the others come back with a clean slate, so to speak, I’ve… Read More »Bringing color into The Sixth Labyrinth by Rebecca Lochlann
My new book, Masters of Time, the tenth book in the After Cilmeri series, opens with an attempted murder using a Welsh longbow. What’s significant about this use is that it occurred in France, where bows had given way to crossbow—a far easier weapon to use for someone who didn’t… Read More »What was so special about the Longbow? by Sarah Woodbury
Long series, and I’ve been lucky enough to write one, have their dilemmas, but historical ones include issues that can trouble modern readers. Among these problems is early mortality. In my latest book, Land of Shadows, I realized that Prioress Eleanor and her family must suffer a generational shift. King… Read More »LAND OF SHADOWS by Priscilla Royal