For today's #HistFicThursdays blog, I am so excited to be welcoming Fiona Forsyth to the blog with a guest post about her new book Death and The Poet , as part of her Coffee Pot Book Club tour. Her fabulous guest post discusses the book's setting, moving away from the perception of Ancient Rome to its reality with just enough artistic license to keep readers deeply engaged with the story. But first, let's meet the book... Blurb 14 AD. When Dokimos the vegetable seller is found bludgeoned to death in the Black Sea town of Tomis, it’s the most exciting thing to have happened in the region for years. Now reluctantly settled into life in exile, the disgraced Roman poet Ovid helps his friend Avitius to investigate the crime, with the evidence pointing straight at a cuckolded neighbour. But Ovid is also on edge, waiting for the most momentous death of all. Augustus, the first Emperor of Rome, is nearing his end, and the future of the whole Roman wor...
Yes, yes, I know it's this one again, but this is the last time it can count as a New Release! This month, this little book has sold dozens of copies and had thousands of page reads. So, if you're not one of those people... what are you waiting for?!
So let's meet the book...
A cost for every action, and a price for every deed.
The Historical Writers’ Forum proudly presents seven stories of Crime and Punishment, from across the ages. From an anchoress to a war hero; from Italy to Missouri; this anthology has a story for everyone.
Included stories are:
The Ignoble Defence - Virginia Crow
Agatha’s Eyes - Rachel Aanstad
A Pact Fulfilled - Eleanor Swift-Hook
Carte de Viste - Ronan Beckman
A Dish Served Cold - Brenda W. Clough
Shadows of the Adriatic - Tessa Floreano
A Dangerous Road - D. Apple
To Wear a Heart So White is available here on #KindleUnlimited
Now, let's meet the authors...
Virginia Crow is an award-winning author of historical fiction. Her writing borders on the edge of reality, challenging the beliefs and superstitions of bygone days.
She lives in Caithness, where her life is dictated by Orlando and Jess, her two spaniels.
Rachel Aanstad
R. K. Aanstad is a writer, artist, and historian. She lives in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by books, cats, and silly little dogs. She has a dollhouse kit company called Tilly Valley Miniatures and writes books about Shakespeare’s plays. She is currently writing Shakespeare’s Influences for Pen and Sword to be published in 2025.
Eleanor Swift-Hook enjoys the mysteries of history and fell in love with the early Stuart era at university when she re-enacted battles and living history events with the English Civil War Society. Since then, she has had an ongoing fascination with the social, military and political events that unfolded during the Thirty Years’ War and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. She lives in County Durham and loves writing stories woven into the historical backdrop of those dramatic times.
Her six-book series, Lord’s Legacy, traces the story of Philip Lord, a mercenary commander with a reputation for ruthlessness gained in the wars raging across Europe, who has returned to England at the opening of what will become the First English Civil War. But he returns with a treason charge hanging over his head and in search of his identity and heritage. The truth about that lies in the hands of a mysterious cabal calling itself the Covenant, and their secret conspiracy which began a century before.
The story is largely told through the eyes of Gideon Lennox, a young London lawyer who has some growing up to do. He is honest, and intelligent, struggling with the changing reality as war overthrows the things he values. His worldview is broken apart and remoulded by the extraordinary people he is thrust into contact with and the demands made on him.
You can learn more about Eleanor and her books on her website: eleanorswifthook.com
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Ronan Beckman is a retired American educator who has lived in the UK for over 30 years. He often writes historical fiction based on the lives of real people that he has discovered through his genealogical studies of the family tree. The character of Sergeant Sven Stenander is the story of Ronan’s great-great-great grandfather. Many of the events in Sven’s colourful life were outlined in a poem written in Swedish that was handed down by a distant cousin, and several news articles that Ronan discovered in his research.
Brenda W. Clough
Brenda W. Clough is the first female Asian-American SF writer, first appearing in print in 1984. Her latest work is a novelette, ‘Clio’s Scroll’, which appeared in Clarkesworld in July 2023. A historical novel A Door In His Head won the 2023 Diverse Voices Award. Her novella ‘May Be Some Time’ was a finalist for both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and became the novel Revise the World. Marian Halcombe, a series of eleven neo-Victorian thrillers appeared in 2021.
Her complete bibliography is up on her webpage brendaclough.net
Tessa Floreano writes historical tales about Italians—by moonlight or candlelight—set in Europe and the Pacific Northwest.
Her first romantic mystery, SLAIN OVER SPUMONI, set in post-WWI near Venice, was published summer of 2022 and won First Place in the Novella category by the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Her debut nonfiction book, ITALIANS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, about early settlers in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington from 1880 to 1950, was published in fall 2023. It is a Finalist for a Nellie Bly Award for Journalistic Nonfiction by Chanticleer International Book Awards.
Every few weeks on her Substack, she posts in-depth stories about Italian Americans and Italian Canadians in the Pacific Northwest. There’s a project in the works over the next several years to create both a documentary as well as a traveling exhibit based on her nonfiction book and work as a community historian of Italians in the Pacific Northwest.
Her next romantic mystery, set in northern Italy in 1899 in a castle at Christmas—involving matrimony, murder, and mayhem—will be published in the fall of 2024.
Visit her website and sign up for Tramblings, her occasional newsletter, to get all the latest on her writing www.tessafloreano.com/newsletter
D. Apple
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