Interviews with Donis Casey and Kathryn Gauci
Tell Me Your Story with Donis Casey I was delighted Donis Casey invited me to contribute to her Tell Me Your Story series. Donis is the author of The Bianca Dangereuse Hollywood Mysteries and the Alafair Tucker Mysteries. She enjoys asking other authors to write essays about their personal journeys. There is a wealth of […]
My Coffee Pot Book Blog Tour
Packing my virtual bags for a global book tour! As I live in Australia and my publishers, The Book Guild and Bolinda Audio, are in the UK, I’m not able to visit local bookstores to spruik Fables & Lies. So I’ve packed my virtual bags and embarked on a blog tour run by the wonderful […]
Guest Post on A Writer of History: The Power of Propaganda
Talking about Nazi propaganda on MK Tod’s wonderful blog I was delighted MK Tod invited me to provide a guest post on her wonderful blog – A Writer of History. Mary is a talented novelist in her own right (her last historical novel was The Admiral’s Wife) and has provided wonderful insight into the genre […]
Gestapo HQ: A Sinister Neighbour on History Girls
Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse: The street that changed from elegant to menacing Fables & Lies: A World War II Novel tells the story of how brave German museum curators strove to safeguard their national treasures from air raids, including Priam’s Treasure from Troy. When researching, I discovered the ancient trove was housed in the Pre and Early History […]
Guest post with Alison Morton on Heroica
The Battle of Vienna -Heroica Today Alison Morton returns to my Triclinium blog. It’s always a pleasure to hear from her. Alison writes award-winning thrillers featuring tough but compassionate heroines. Her twelve-book Roma Nova series is set in an imaginary European country where a remnant of the Roman Empire has survived into the 21st century […]
The Odyssey of Priam’s Treasure – Guest Post on Judith Starkston’s blog
The journey of a priceless ancient Trojan treasure How did a priceless cache of gold found at Troy in Turkey end up in a Berlin Museum only to be plundered by the Soviets and now be on exhibit in Moscow? I trace the odyssey of this priceless trove with Judith Starkston on her blog. The […]
The ‘Everyday German’ in WWII – Guest post for Alison Morton
German civilians in WWII – victims or perpetrators? Alison Morton, author of the Roma Nova series, kindly asked me to write an article about ‘Everyday German’ in WWII given my new novel, Fables & Lies, focuses on the pressures placed on German civilians living in Berlin while under the Third Reich. Were they willing accomplices […]
Atlantis and the Aryan Myth – Historia Magazine
Schafer Expedition Reception for Tibetan Dignateries Historia Magazine has kindly published my article on Atlantis and the Aryan Myth in the lead up to the release of Fables & Lies: A World War II Novel on 28 April 2026. In 1938, Himmler sent an expedition to Tibet from his research institute, the SS Ahnenerbe, to […]
Powerful Mythic Retelling by Judith Starkston
Judith Starkston, author of Achilles’s Wife,writes about the craft of mythic retellings on Elisabeth Storrs’ blog.
The Nuclear Option: Love Spells and Curses on the History Girls
My latest post on the History Girls blog is about Defixiones curse tablets used for the love lorn or rivals to cast a spell on their victims. Enjoy reading about The Nuclear Option: Love Spells & Curses in the Ancient World.