by SMThornton | May 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Happy Mother’s Day! In celebration, I have for your reading pleasure an excerpt of The Secret History. Let’s just say Theodora and her mom have a rather complicated relationship. The silence expanded around us. “You didn’t come all this way, with a...
by SMThornton | May 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve sent a few letters to my senators in recent months, so when a letter from Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski landed in mailbox, I expected a run-of-the-mill form letter. Instead, she was writing about The Secret History! I’m not sure who told her...
by SMThornton | Apr 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Writing The Tiger Queens has presented me with a new and unexpected quandary: too many characters. And I’m talking waaay too many characters. Granted, there was a fair bit of information on Theodora’s family and friends from Procopius’...
by SMThornton | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ask someone to name a Roman emperor and chances are you’ll get one of the usual heavyweights: Octavian (can’t stand him), Caligula (born on my birthday!), or maybe even Nero (killed his mom, so I’m not a big fan). Ask someone to name a Byzantine...
by SMThornton | Mar 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
So… You guys know I love Kate Quinn’s Rome series (some of my all-time favorite historical fiction!) and I can’t wait for her upcoming novel on the Borgias. So imagine my excitement (not to mention the state of my nerves), when Kate agreed to read...
