Changing a book cover and admitting your mistake – CARINA: a case study

CARINA seems to be a fidgety type, just like her namesake main character and has just gone through a transformation similar to the one our heroine goes through in her first story, INCEPTIO.

In 2019, I decided that the Roma Nova series needed a make-over as the prominent eagle motif had been around since […]

April 5th, 2021 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Alternative history, Books, CARINA, Getting published, INCEPTIO, PERFIDITAS, Roma Nova | Leave a comment

Clearing up confusion about the Roma Nova series...

Many moons ago, I wrote a book, then a sequel and what I thought was the third of a trilogy. Set in the ‘present’, they featured a young woman, Carina Mitela, who had been brought up for the first part of her life as Karen Brown in the Eastern United States. INCEPTIO gave us a […]

August 29th, 2019 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: AURELIA, Books, CARINA, Characters, INCEPTIO, INSURRECTIO, NEXUS, Novellas, PERFIDITAS, RETALIO, Roma Nova, Short stories, SUCCESSIO, Women warriors | 2 comments

Who is Carina Mitela?

Carina, warrior, councillor and mother – purely some suggestions!

When you invent a character like Carina Mitela, you need to know who she is, where did she come from, what does she want, and fear? What’s stopping her? What does she like? What are her values? What are her strengths and weaknesses?

Carina […]

February 27th, 2019 | Tags: , , , , | Category: AURELIA, Books, CARINA, Characters, INCEPTIO, INSURRECTIO, PERFIDITAS, RETALIO, Roma Nova, SUCCESSIO, Women warriors | Comments are closed
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