Six striking sentences about Roma Nova

Summing up a 100,000 word book in a few words for a retailer page or the back of a book cover is a mammoth task – a labour of Hercules. But when somebody asks for six striking sentences, that’s on another level altogether. Here’s what I came up with for some of the Roma Nova […]

Heroines' journeys - Not always physical ones

Karen/Carina

As readers, we like to see our main character progress in some way. She or he doesn’t need to save the world, make a grand marriage with a duke or make a groundbreaking journey into space. But their story does need a resolution. It could be acceptance, it could be a move somewhere else, it […]

Historical research – it's a hard road

Roman relief depicting a travelling wagon (raeda) from a tomb from Virunum, Zollfeld, Austria

Drafting my new Roma Nova story set in the fourth century is slow, glacially slow at times. I know Roma Nova, I know its ‘history’, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of writing in a time […]