by SMThornton | Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
Okay, I’m venting here a little. This past week I entered a critique contest which is cool- I’m all about unbiased feedback. That which doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger, right? But one critiquer made a comment that the first 250 words of my novel...
by SMThornton | Feb 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
On my last edit I combed through HATSHEPSUT looking for modern expressions. I pay attention to this when I write (there was one scene where I really wanted to describe a servant nodding like a Dwight Schrute bobble head), but oftentimes those suckers slip right past...
by SMThornton | Jan 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Here comes another installment of 20 Questions!1. Sara Tribble wants to know, “If you could go back in time to see Egypt in its glory–would you? And what would you wanna do first?”Of course I would want to go! I’d head straight to 1475BC (ish)...
by SMThornton | Jan 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
This week I’m answering questions from everyone. Yahoo!Terresa asked, “If you could personally interview any author, alive or dead, who would it be and why?”Okay, so first I was going to try to cheat and interview Hatshepsut or Theodore Roosevelt....
by SMThornton | Jan 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
So I have a new blog boiler plate- one of the pictures from my trip to Hatshepsut’s mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri back in 2005. The temple’s name in ancient Egyptian was Djeser Djereru and translates to the Holiest of Holies. It’s located just...
