by SMThornton | Apr 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Quarantines have been used since Biblical times to separate the sick from the well (mostly lepers–cool disease to study, but not to have), but the term comes from the Latin word for forty. 14th century Venice required incoming ships to hang out in their harbor...
by SMThornton | Apr 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Prologues are bad. Or so they say.A trend I’ve noticed in historical fiction is something I’m dubbing the pseudo-prologue (only because I wanted something with a double P for my title). Three of my favorite hist-fic novels–Water For Elephants by Sara...
by SMThornton | Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
See that sleepy gal at the top of my blog? That’s how I feel. (I only wish I was in Egypt too!) We just got back from Washington D.C.–it was awesome, but also exhausting to chaperone teenagers through the capital for a week. Not only that, but I’ve...
by SMThornton | Apr 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been waiting since last year when Kate Quinn’s Mistress of Rome debuted for her next book. Daughters of Rome is finally here!Here’s the synopsis, straight from Quinn’s website:A.D. 69. Nero is dead. The Roman Empire is up for the taking....
by SMThornton | Apr 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
No, you can’t go back to ConstantinopleBeen a long time gone, ConstantinopleWhy did Constantinople get the works?That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.-Istanbul, We Might Be GiantsConstantinople might have been renamed to Istanbul by Ataturk in the...
by SMThornton | Apr 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Blogging is not high on my to-do list these days. I love the community of writers and wish I had more time to blog, but I’m getting ready to take a group of students to Washington D.C. next week and am slated to finish my current WIP by the end of the month if I...
