by SMThornton | Jul 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
As I write this, I’ve just finished writing the second to last chapter on The Conqueror’s Wife, my fourth novel starring Alexander the Great and his menagerie of wives, mistresses, and lovers. (Not to mention plenty of battle wounds, torturing slaves, and...
by SMThornton | Jun 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
My review: In Becoming Josephine, Heather Webb’s marvelous debut has spun the tangled web of a lively and intriguing Josephine, carrying the reader through her early life in Martinique to her near-death escapes during the French Revolution’s Terror, and...
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 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...
