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May.01.2013
Over the last couple of years, many of you have been kind enough to express an interest as to when the sequel to The Wedding Shroud will be available. I'm now happy to announce that I plan to release The Golden Dice in July. It's been a roller coaster for me during this time as the...
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Mar.22.2013
My guest today is Sherry Jones, an American journalist and the internationally best selling author of the controversial The Jewel of Medina and other historical fiction novels about women's power. She is also a speaker on issues including women's rights, free speech, and Islamophobia. Her novels...
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Mar.06.2013
Ingrid Christensen (left) and Mathilde Wegger
on the way to Antarctica in 1931
My guest today is Jesse Blackadder who is fascinated by landscapes, adventurous women and very cold places. Her novel After the Party made the Australian Book Review list of favourite Australian novels in...
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Jan.25.2013
My guest today is Kate Forsyth, the bestselling and award-winning author of more than twenty books, ranging from picture books to poetry to novels for both children and adults. Her list is so extensive it's best to take a look at Goodreads to see all her books!
Since the Witches of Eileanan was...
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Jan.03.2013
Loretta Proctor, author of The Long Shadow, Middle Watch and The Crimson Bed has tagged me in The Next Big Thing, an author's blog hop. Loretta was born in Cairo, Egypt to an English father and Greek mother. She won prizes in the 1970’s for essays and plays, wrote specialized articles, studied...
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Dec.11.2012
Sarcophagus of the Married Couple
Late C6th BCE
‘There was a smooth, round contentment to her as she sat upon a dining couch with her husband, head resting against his shoulder as he embraced her. Their happiness revealed by the curve of their lips and the ease of their touch…’ The Wedding...
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Nov.09.2012
My guest today is Christy English, author of The Queen's Pawn and To Be Queen. After years of acting in Shakespeare's plays, Christy is excited to bring the Bard to Regency England in her new novel How To Tame A Willful Wife which has just been released. When she isn't acting, roller skating, or...
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Sep.14.2012
The Death of Tarpeia
The tales of famous Roman women such as Lucretia and Virginia serve to reinforce the stereotypes of the ‘matron’ and the ‘virgin’ as exemplars of Roman virtues. Both these women died tragically: one defending her family’s honour by suiciding, the other murdered by her father...
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Aug.12.2012
My guest today is M Louisa Locke, a retired U.S history professor who has recently published the first two books in a series about Victorian San Francisco, Maids of Misfortune and Uneasy Spirits, both best-selling historical mysteries on Kindle. Locke blogs frequently on self-publishing, is...
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Aug.05.2012
It is always shocking to be reminded that the majority of those sent to war are boys. The Absolutist, by John Boyne, brings this home with a poignant telling of the cruelties that soldiers wreak upon each other; not just against their enemies but also within their own ranks.
Tristan returns...
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Jul.13.2012
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...
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May.13.2012
The source of writer's inspiration always intrigues me. More so when a novelist writes historical fiction and is drawn to write of past times. Today my guest is Rebecca Lochlann, author of The Child of Erinyes Series.
In her teens and early twenties, Rebecca began envisioning an epic story, a new...
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May.13.2012
The source of writer's inspiration always intrigues me. More so when a novelist writes historical fiction and is drawn to write of past times. Today my guest is Rebecca Lochlann, author of The Child of Erinyes Series.
In her teens and early twenties, Rebecca began envisioning an epic story, a new...
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May.09.2012
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...
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May.04.2012
Suzanne Adair, author of Camp Follower and many other novels has featured this guest post in Relevant History on her blog The British are Coming Y'all.
The ancient Greeks believed in an underworld to which the souls of the dead journeyed. It was known by names such as Hades or Erebus...
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... a sensitivity to the realities of life in a very different time and world... ”
—Ursula Le Guin
About Elisabeth
Hi, I am an Australian author. My debut novel, The Wedding Shroud was published in Australia and NZ by Pier 9 Murdoch Books in September 2010 and has recently been released as an ebook world wide.
I graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts Law,...
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Elisabeth’s Favorite Books
Jane Eyre, The Persian Boy, The Iliad, The Aeneid, Lavinia, A Year of Wonders, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Gone With The Wind