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On Inspiration: Interview with Nicole Alexander

July 13, 2012 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

My guest today is Nicole Alexander, a fellow Aussie author who shares the sources of her inspiration with us. In the course of her career Nicole has worked both in Australia and Singapore in financial services, fashion, corporate publishing and agriculture. A fourth generation grazier, Nicole returned to her family’s mixed agricultural property west of Goondiwindi in the mid-1990s. She… read more

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On Inspiration: Interview with Rebecca Lochlann

May 14, 2012 By Elisabeth Storrs 7 Comments

In her teens and early twenties, Rebecca began envisioning an epic story, a new kind of myth, one built upon the foundation of the Greek classics and continuing through the centuries right up into the present and future.This has become her life’s work, although she didn’t exactly intend it to be that way when she started. The Child of the… read more

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Review: Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres

April 27, 2012 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

A dense, enthralling and terrifying novel that describes man’s inhumanity to man in the first few decades of the 20th century in Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. It is a sprawling saga with its genesis in the peaceful village of Eskibahce in the south west of Turkey. Here Turkish Muslims and Greek Christians have lived for centuries side by side,… read more

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Interview – Historical Fiction eBooks

April 17, 2012 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Lorraine Fraser from Historical Fiction Authors Co-operative has posted an interview on Historical Fiction eBooks

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Ancient Bling

September 5, 2011 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Etruscans loved shiny things. The more glittering and ornate the better. The most stunning examples of jewellery and art came from the era known as the ‘Orientalizing’ period from ca. 720-575BCE. This was a time when Phoenician and Greeks were attracted to Etruria due to its rich metal deposits. The Phoenicians were a sea faring people with extensive trading interests… read more

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Damn Whores or God’s Police

August 24, 2011 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

One of the main themes of my book is the exploration of the lives of women in the classical period of C5th and 4th BCE through the characters of a Roman girl, Greek slave, Cretan courtesan and Etruscan matron. So what was the status and role of these women in classical times? In both Greece and Rome they were chattels… read more

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Guest Post – Reading The Past blog

August 19, 2011 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Sarah Johnson of Reading The Past has added my guest post about Ursula Le Guin to her blog. Read more

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Fly High Giveaway Winner

August 19, 2011 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Elysium – winner of The Wedding Shroud giveaway on Fly High blog. Read more

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Snail Mail, Rome and Ursula Le Guin

August 19, 2011 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Old fashioned courtesy can go a long way. And so, too, can snail mail. When I requested Ursula Le Guin to endorse my novel I used both. Last year my first novel, The Wedding Shroud, was published in Australia (and has now been released as an e-book world wide). The book is set in C5th BCE at a time when… read more

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A Flight of Birds – A Glimpse into the Future

August 14, 2011 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

As well as the ability to interpret the future from lightning bolts, the Etruscans also observed the flight of birds for the purposes of divination. The process of interpreting the patterns of flight was known as taking the auspices (literally ‘looking at birds’). As was the case with understanding lightning portents, the sector of the sky where a bird flew… read more

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