BINYAMIN COMES HOME AFTER TEN YEARS IN THE ARENA
The Deadliest Sport opens with Binyamin’s return to Alexandria to fight his last bout after ten years in gladiatorial arenas all over the...
Miriam's Tutor
In The Deadliest Lie, we learn about Miriam’s tutor, Hector, and why her father purchased a tutor for her. Aunt Hannah explains: When...
Answering Questions, Part III
Okay, okay. I get other questions too. Lucy asked, “Why did you feel you had to write a mystery about her?” “You mean why did I have to...
Answering Questions, Part II
I began imagining Miriam bat Isaac when in 1987 I encountered Maria Hebrea. I was taking a course on the historical development of...
Answering Questions, Part I
When I make presentations to organizations and book clubs, I am often asked these two questions: How did you come to create Miriam bat...
The original one-size-fits-all garment
Without steel needles, sewing was a difficult craft in the first-century CE. The women had a few simple garments with little shape. The...
Come say Hello
I’ll be in Pequannock on Sunday, June 4 from 11:00—5:00 PM at the Street Festival on the corner of Jackson and Turnpike, Pompton Plains...
The Pace of the Scenes in a Novel
If you read this blog regularly—and I hope you do—my guess is you read novels regularly too. So, I thought you might enjoy knowing how...
Memorable First Lines
Every once in a while, I prepare a column on some aspect of novel writing for Book Daily. I was looking over some already published,...