Speaking Latin in Roma Nova

Salvete!

Fear not, I’m not going to write this post all in Latin, but I thought I’d make a glossary of words used in the Roma Nova novels. Some are Latin, some derived from Roman customs or functions.

You’ll only find them sprinkled here and there in the books, something novelists do to add […]

60,000 miles more Roman roads!

Roaman road near Ambrussum, southern Gaul

Scientific journal Nature has just published a high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire by an international group of academics that suggests a much more extensive Road network than we could have imagined.

The new map – an online database called Itiner-e – has been compiled […]

A trip to Mel's Dresden

Alison Morton and Anna Belfrage at the Basteibrücke

Schloßstraße, Dresden

Earlier in June, I waxed lyrical about Dresden in southeast Germany which was the scene for several chapters in my latest thriller Double Stakes. Never having been there, I had written heroine Mel and hero Jeff’s scenes using Google Maps.

What a shocking admission!

Moving a character through a place needs […]