#historicalfiction

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I'm a writer, which amounts to being a small business owner attempting to make a (meager) living off my writing. So once a week, I share one of my books in case it might resonate with some of you.

The Last Priestess of Malia is historical fiction: The people of Crete fight to save their culture and their values from the onslaught of foreign conquerors. I'll be honest, it's not light reading. But I think it's relevant for our times, perhaps painfully so.

Details and content warnings here: https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/the-last-priestess-of-malia

A paperback copy of The Last Priestess of Malia by Laura Perry, standing upright in the middle of the image. The book cover includes a picture of a Minoan priestess standing outdoors with a temple in the distance. Surrounding the book is text connected to the book by arrows. The text reads, "Ancient Minoans, Historical Fiction, Matriarchal Culture, Pagan Rituals, Powerful Priestesses, Culture Clash, Sorry, No Happy Ending "You've Been Warned)."

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“When Kleon heard the news from Capua he rose early one morning, being a literatus & unchained, crept to the room of his Master, stabbed him in the throat, mutilated that Master’s body even as his own had been mutilated; and so fled from Rome with a stained dagger in his sleeve and a copy of THE REPUBLIC of Plato hidden in his breast.”

Ian Campbell discusses the vivid realisation of a slave revolt in Mitchell’s SPARTACUS (1933)

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https://asls.org.uk/james-leslie-mitchells-spartacus/

Book cover: James Leslie Mitchell SPARTACUS The cover is a stained red. The illustration, rendered in greys and black, shows a stylised ancient warrior wearing an angular, crested helmet

Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.

To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:

https://mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/stories-about-women-from-the-medieval-silk-road-and-available-in-english/

On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?

In the midst of a crap week, I woke up this morning to find the audiobook of 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵 (Shadow Series Book 1) sitting at number 4 on Amazon’s LGBTQ+ HistFic Best Seller list! 😭

Thank you, listeners, for getting your noir on and diving into the Shadow Series. And a huge thank you to Abby Craden for narrating this series so brilliantly!❤️
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Audiobook for In the Shadow of the Past (Shadow Series Book 1) by J.E. Leak at number 4 on Amazon’s LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction Best Seller list.

Hi, looking forward to hanging out here, myself I spend my time playing doing covers mainly, growing at home and down the ; broken things although I have been known to blow them up when things go wrong!. Designing and building in wood when I get the urge (furniture, cajon drum most recently) reading all sorts of , particularly and and enjoy with friends, plus plenty of looking forward to talking about all the above plus anything arty or creative!