Writer, Archaeology, Roman Empire, Ancient Greece Winner Jericho Writers FNL24; LL Flash500 Novel Comp 2025; SL HNS First Chapters Comp 2026
Northumberland
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Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category.
#Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic.
#HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction
CONGRATULATIONS to the writers who have been selected for the CATEGORY SHORT LISTS in the 2026 HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY’S First Chapters Competition! Visit hns2026.com for the full lists
#historicalfiction #hnsfirstchapterscompetition
The buildings in photos 1 and 3 are on the Palatine Hill and overlook the Circus Maximus (photo 2, and foreground of 1), where the chariot teams raced before thousands of fans in Ancient Rome.
#Rome #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology
📷 my own, October 2025.
My #Bookstack comes from the secondhand bookshop at Blickling Hall, which is in the care of @nationaltrust
#AmReading #AncientRome #Books
Fragment of a ceramic lustral basin with a beautiful painted figure, discovered in a sanctuary on the northeast slope of Rome’s Palatine Hill.
Basins like these were perhaps used for purification in religious contexts.
📷 my own, Capitoline Museum
#FindsFriday #Rome #Archaeology
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Burgh Castle is one of 3 Saxon Shore Roman forts on the Norfolk coast. 9 forts dot the South East Coast. Burgh was a harbour for sea-going ships and a town (vicus) too, as well as military base in the 3rd C AD, and beyond.
📷 my own
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #RomanBritain
Burgh Castle is one of 3 Saxon Shore Roman forts on the Norfolk coast. 9 forts dot the South East Coast. Burgh was a harbour for sea-going ships and a town (vicus) too, as well as military base in the 3rd C AD, and beyond.
📷 my own
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #RomanBritain
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Warham Camp is the best preserved Iron Age Hill Fort in East Anglia. It has double-banked circular defences and lies within a bend in the River Stiffkey. Built more than 2000 years ago by Iceni people, pottery finds date 200 BC- 1st C AD.
📷 my own
#HillfortWednesday #Archaeology
Warham Camp is the best preserved Iron Age Hill Fort in East Anglia. It has double-banked circular defences and lies within a bend in the River Stiffkey. Built more than 2000 years ago by Iceni people, pottery finds date 200 BC- 1st C AD.
📷 my own
#HillfortWednesday #Archaeology
Enjoying an autumn break in Norfolk, England. The weather was very kind for an early evening Sunday walk on Brancaster Beach as the tide rolled in.
#BeachLife #SundayVibes
📷 my own
Although Augustan in origin, the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in #OstiaAntica was enlarged, the buildings subdivided to house local and foreign shipowner’s and merchant’s collegia or guilds. The black and white mosaics are mid 2nd C AD.
My own 📷
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome
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🍁🍂27th: Write Club Time and space to write
🍁🍂29th: How to Give and Receive Feedback with @aki.schilz (for writers wanting to join our new Feedback Circle series)
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🍁🍂15th: Agent AMA: Opening Pages with @kabliterary
🍁🍂17th: What Gaming Taught Me
About Worldbuilding
with @janellemccurdyy
🍁🍂18th: Writers’ Cafe
Mix & mingle with other writers, led by @katesfwriter
The barn owl was out early last night. This fuzzy shot is my phone from about 40 M away.
It could be an omen.
The #owl is a symbol for a main character in one of two novels I’ve written.
Is this is the one I need to focus on finessing in the second half of 2026?
#AmWriting – at Gunnerton, England
This is one of the bronze shields from the Idaean cave, #Crete. It dates from the late 9th/early 8th C to mid 7th C BC, roughly the same era when the oral epics, The #Iliad and #Odyssey, found their more fixed written form.
My 📷, Heraklion Archaeological Museum
#Archaeology
After the rain, it was a beautiful evening. I heard a Sparrow Hawk and took in the sun as it set over the parched fields. Then, back home after my walk, I sat down to write.
#AmWriting #WritingLife
📷 my own, #Northumberland
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To have an engaging story, your readers must become invested at an early stage in your protagonist’s journey. This should contain tension and uncertainty, delivered via the struggles that they face, risks that they take, and overall high stakes. This will contribute towards a rollercoaster, edge of their seat reading experience.
Does your protagonist’s journey tick these boxes?
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This beautiful and bittersweet love story is testament to the power of a book to inspire and create real human connections. #Books theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
