Surf’s Up!

I love a good sports romance, but tire of the same old ballplayers, and besides, why is it only the men who are athletic? So to “be the change I want to see in the world,” New Heights features rock climbing for both the hero and heroine, which is integral...

Bent Out of Shape

Since I can’t resist a good pun, I used this phrase as a chapter title in Submerged Hopes for a character with the bends, but though it’s come to mean “angry,” the idiom originally meant intoxicated or “bent” in 1833. Today, let’s talk about “the bends,” or...

Greek Fire: Ancient Naval Warfare

In Submerged Hopes, the hero makes a passing comment regarding learning about ancient naval warfare techniques in the Naval Academy. Here’s what I learned in my research! Sea power was critical in antiquity for the movement of troops, ammunition, food, and fodder, and...

Reading the Tea Leaves

Divination: Tea Leaves, Entrails, & Hallucinogens, oh, my! Here’s something fun I learned from writing Submerged Hopes, which contains a scene in which the hero offers to tell the fortune of the heroine, from reading the dregs of her coffee cup. Nick, who knows...

Like a Hole in the Head

My bad! I’d meant the stele to be the Last Archaeological Thing, but I completely forgot about the tumi! There’s no way I can leave that off, especially with Halloween tonight! A tumi is named for the Quecha word for “knife” and refers to the half-moon bladed knives...

The Oldest Song in the World

Hint: It’s not “The dog ate my homework!” Here’s my final, way cool snippet of archaeological info I learned from writing Submerged Hopes. Although this April, an Assyrian clay tablet was reconstructed, representing a near-complete ancient song from 3400 years ago,...

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