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On Inspiration: Interview with Sarah Woodbury

January 31, 2020 By Elisabeth Storrs 8 Comments

My first guest of 2020 is the wonderful Sarah Woodbury. With over a million books sold to date, Sarah is the author of more than forty novels, all set in medieval Wales. Although an anthropologist by training, and then a full-time homeschooling mom for twenty years, she began writing fiction when the stories in her head overflowed and demanded that… read more

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On Inspiration: Interview with Donis Casey

November 10, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 6 Comments

Donis Casey is the author of the Alafair Tucker Mysteries, an award-winning series featuring the sleuthing mother of ten children, set in Oklahoma during the booming 1910s. She is a former teacher, academic librarian, and entrepreneur who lives in Tempe, Arizona. Donis’ latest release,The Wrong Girl, is a coming-of-age tale of a girl in the glamorous 1920s which introduces the… read more

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Incomparable Power: Hittite Queens by Judith Starkston

November 5, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 2 Comments

My guest today is award-winning author Judith Starkston, a classicist who feeds her obsession with the Bronze Age world of the Greeks and Hittites by writing historical fiction and fantasy. Her first novel, set in the Trojan War and told from the perspective of the captive woman Briseis, is titled Hand of Fire. She has just released the second book… read more

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On Inspiration: Interview with Lesley Downer

October 5, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 8 Comments

My very special guest today (and fellow History Girl) is Lesley Downer who has had a love affair with Japan ever since she first went there 40 years ago. In her books she tries to take readers to this fascinating, rather mysterious place and to open up aspects of its culture and history that people often miss. Her non-fiction book,… read more

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On Inspiration: Interview with Amalia Carosella

August 3, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 10 Comments

My guest today is fellow ancient history lover and author, Amalia Carosella. She is the author of Bronze Age Greek and Viking Age historical fiction, including Tamer of Horses, Helen of Sparta, and Daughter of a Thousand Years. As Amalia Dillin she also writes mythic fantasy and time-hop fantasy romance, including the ongoing Orc Saga and the completed Fate of… read more

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Guest post: Women Writers, Women’s Books

July 8, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs Leave a Comment

Tales of Ancient Rome by Elisabeth Storrs

Many thanks to Women Writers, Women’s Books for inviting me to write a guest post on Inspiration and Obsession for the blog. Inspiration ignites the spark to imagine a novel; obsession fans the flames to fuel the journey to complete it.

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On Inspiration: Interview with J.L.Oakley

July 7, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 12 Comments

My guest today is JL Oakley who writes award-winning historical fiction that spans the mid-19th century to WW II. Her characters, who come from all walks of life, stand up for something in their own time and place. Her writing has been recognized with the 2013 Chanticleer Grand Prize, the 2014 First Place Chaucer Award, 2015 WILLA Silver Award and… read more

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Why the History comes before the Mystery by M. Louisa Locke

June 2, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 5 Comments

My guest today is the wonderful M Louisa Locke, USA Today Best-selling author of the Victorian San Francisco Mystery series.  She is a retired professor of U.S. and Women’s History who embarked on a second career as an historical fiction writer. The series features Annie Fuller, a boardinghouse owner and pretend clairvoyant, and Nate Dawson, a San Francisco lawyer, who… read more

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On Inspiration: Interview with Leah Kaminsky

March 29, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 15 Comments

My guest today is Leah Kaminsky, an Australian physician and award-winning writer. Leah’s debut novel The Waiting Room won the prestigious Voss Literary Prize (Vintage Australia 2015, Harper Perennial US 2016). We’re all Going to Die has been described as ‘a joyful book about death’ (Harper Collins, 2016). She edited Writer MD (Knopf US, starred on Booklist) and co-authored Cracking the Code (Vintage 2015). Stitching Things Together was a finalist in… read more

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A Sweet and Bitter Time by GS Johnston

March 3, 2019 By Elisabeth Storrs 9 Comments

My guest today is Australian author, GS Johnston, author of The Skin of Water and The Cast of a Hand and Consumption, noted for their complex characters and well-researched settings. His new release is Sweet Bitter Cane, a beautifully rendered novel exploring an Italian woman’s hopeful emigration to an exotic but rigorous life in the Australian cane fields that leads to… read more

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What fate awaits a Roman treaty bride married to an Etruscan nobleman from a decadent world?

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