#historicalfiction

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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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https://amzn.to/3icwd98
(not standalones)

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!

"I found on a whim when my imagination was captured . . . [b]ut the primary sources were scarce. It occurred to me then that I could write this story as a novel, making the pieces between the facts and figments of imagination, rooted in historical research.

"I cannot tell you how joyful it has been to write something that I didn’t have to prove each sentence with historical fact (though many times I did anyway) – I could wonder, think deeply, assume, imagine, propel love and depth and interest into the page that I could never do in my historical research."

- Jillian Forsberg, "From Writer to Author" https://www.historythroughfiction.com/blog/from-writer-to-author