Winter Solstice Blog Hop - Shedding light on the Roman dusk

A post about darkness and light to mark the longest night in the northern hemisphere…

“The Fall of the Roman Empire” was a 1964 epic film starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason and Christopher Plummer. Emperor Marcus Aurelius was dying and did not want his unpleasant son Commodus to succeed him. […]

A beautiful blog...

Today, I’m on author Jessica Bell’s blog as an “Artist Unleashed” with a guest post “Write What You Really Really Want”.

I hope you’ll visit and read a little more about my writing motivation. 😉

But the treasure of Jessica’s blog is the gorgeous bubble girl…

 

Alison Morton is the author of Roma Nova […]

PERFIDITAS very relaxed blog tour

To celebrate its publication, PERFIDITAS is off on a virtual, fairly relaxed tour…

Click here for all the tour stop details, regularly updated.

And, of course, there’ll be the UK launch at Waterstones Tunbridge Wells on 6 November – all welcome.

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Missed INCEPTIO? You can buy it […]

Women writing books

Today starts a very special month when I’m featured in the online literary magazine Women Writers, Women’s Books. And I’m very excited to be in the company of Isabel Allende, Nicola Morgan, Roz Morris, Joanne Harris, Claire King and Judith Kinghorn, to mention a few.

It started with a tweet. […]

The Alternation of Rome

Rome fascinates us, bewitches us even in the high tech 21st century. It stretched for over 1229 years, it reached the heights (occasionally depths) of military achievement, produced the social, cultural and legal framework for the entire Western world, gave us its engineering genius and left us a richness in architecture, power politics, literature and […]