by SMThornton | Jun 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m beyond excited to have Gary Corby, the guru of all that is Greek and mysterious (because he writes mysteries set in ancient Greece), here today. His latest caper, The Marathon Conspiracy, about Nicolaos, the gumshoe older brother of Socrates, just released...
by SMThornton | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
My Review: Everyone knows about Cosimo and Lorenzo de Medici, and Florence’s place center-stage during the Renaissance, but in The Red Lily Crown, Elizabeth Loupas brings to life the complicated character of Francesco de Medici and a little known facet of...
by SMThornton | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Huzzah! Daughter of the Gods will finally hit the shelves this Tuesday, providing an ecstatic ending for what might have been the tear-filled, depressing conclusion of my dream of getting Hatshepsut’s story published. The early version of Daughter of the...
by SMThornton | May 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
My Review: I’m not sure how it’s possible, but I enjoyed Kate Quinn’s The Lion and the Rose even more than the prequel, The Serpent and the Pearl. It’s often all too easy to guess the twists and turns of a story: how a novel is going to finish...
by SMThornton | Apr 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
That meme up there is absolutely true, and the same goes for a writer… The most difficult word a writer writes is often the first. Butt in the chair, right? But there’s something more. Nobody tells you when you’re first starting to run that it...
