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I left my side-arm in the safe box in the vestibule and walked on past the marble and plaster imagines, the painted statues and busts of dead Mitelae from the gods knew how many hundreds of years. Only the under-steward was allowed to dust them; I’d never been allowed to touch them as a child. […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!April 30th, 2015 | Tags: Characters, heroines, historical, new book | Category: AURELIA, Books, Excerpts, Pre-launch snippets, Readers, Roma Nova, Women warriors | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) I think history runs through my veins. The past is, in the cliché, a foreign country and maybe that’s what attracts us. It’s distant so it’s safe to travel there vicariously. No lobster-back Hanoverian British soldier or Greek hoplite is going to grab us, nor are we going to be press-ganged or sent to India […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!April 29th, 2015 | Tags: alternate history, book launch, Books, historical, steampunk | Category: Alternate history, Authors, Pre-launch snippets, Readers, Women warriors, Women's history | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) The principal families in my Roma Nova families are the Mitelae, the Tellae and the Apuliae, so as we approach publication of the fourth book, I thought I’d do some diagrams to clarify how they interrelate. Language note: Latin is inflected, i.e. it changes the ending of nouns and adjectives depending on the word’s place […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!April 28th, 2015 | Tags: Apulia, Characters, Mitela, Roma Nova families, Tella | Category: AURELIA, Latin, Pre-launch snippets, Research, Roma Nova, Roman life, Romans | 11 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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