Today, I’m delighted to welcome Ruth Downie back to the Roma Nova writing world. She’s talked before about historic truth and donkey poo, and wrote a poignant account ‘from below’ at the court of Boudica as part of A Year of Ravens. Of course, Roma Novans know her as the name on the endorsement for […]
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October 6th, 2016 | Tags: blog tour, Characters, Crime, Historical Novel Society, Rome | Category: Authors, Books, Other people's websites/blogs, Roman life, Roman military, Romans | Comments are closed My ‘Roman’ garden Gardening and nosing around other people’s gardens are two of my favourite hobbies; my own is designed on Roman lines and I even have a Roman herb garden. You’ll know that I often mention gardens, plants and flowers in the Roma Nova books; Carina has the key to a walled […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!August 13th, 2016 | Tags: gardens, Roma Nova, Roman gardens, Roman homes, Rome | Category: Research, Roman life, Roman traditions, Romans | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Romans in the 21st century? Possibly provocative, but a perfectly feasible venture into alternative history fiction. How do you do this with no historical foundation? Setting a story in the past or in another country is already a challenge. But if you invent the country and need to meld it with history that the reader […] If you enjoyed this post, do share it with your friends!June 28th, 2016 | Tags: alternative history, point of divergence, Rome, Timeline, world building, Writing skills | Category: Alternate history, Historical logic, INCEPTIO, Other people's websites/blogs, Research, Roman life, Roman traditions, Romans, Women warriors | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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