How to plot out a new novel is always a big question. While the query process continues for my latest novel, I very much wanted to get started on a new project. It also needed to take readers more than a thousand years away from Hypatia’s life. A friend of mine who is an inspired…
I want my own magical staff. Actually, I need one for The Sibylline Chronicles. My husband is a concept illustrator and art director in the animated film and television industry. So, when I needed help figuring out the engineering of a critical storytelling tool, he came to my aid with his pad and sketch pencils….
Now that I am well into the third act of Vol. 1 of The Sibylline Chronicles, my map-making process is ramping up at the same time it winds down. The map of ancient Sufetula (see below) is the last in the series of location maps for the novel. Sufetula – its temples, monastery and stunning high-plateau…
The necklace of Rhea Silvia is one of the fantastical elements of the ancient world. The Sibylline Chronicles is actively incorporating provocative relics from the ancient world – many of which disappeared between 391 and 415 c.e. The Necklace is actually wonderfully mythological and full of mystery. It hung around the neck of her statue in the Temple…