I’m Faith L. Justice, a history junkie and science geek who writes historical novels and SF/F short stories. My debut novel Selene of Alexandria is now available in print from Amazon (US, UK, Canada & Germany), Barnes and Noble, Booklooker.com (US and UK) or any online bookstore; also available as an ebook in Kindle (US, UK , Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy), Nook, Sony and all other ebook formats.
One of the delights of writing historical novels is the research. I relish digging up the odd fact, uncovering a fascinating story or illuminating a page of history for readers. One of the frustrations of being a novelist is not being able to use all that wonderful research—at least not directly. Many juicy bits get left in the research folders or excised to the outtakes files. This section of my site will provide an outlet for my inner scholar. I’ll post content about the history behind the fiction, history/archaeology in the news, reviews (books/TV/movies), and interviews with historical novel writers. I love comments, so please leave them! Or check out my website www.faithljustice.com and send me an email.
I’ve been writing guest blogs, as well. If interested, you can check them out:
- “Hypatia: A Scandalous Woman?” at Scandalous Women
- “Move Over Tudor Women – The Theodosian’s Are Here!” at Just Jennifer Reading
- “Why I Love Strong Women” at Historical Tapestry
- Author interview at The Owl Bookmark Blog
The reviews are pouring in and (so far) they’re all great:
- Story Circle Book Reviews
- BookPleasures.com
- The Historical Novel Society
- Novel Addiction
- Women and History
- Scandalous Books
- Historical Novel Review
- Editing TLC – Book Reviews
- Just Jennifer Reading
- Lacuna: A Journal of Historical Fiction
- Historical Tapestry
- The Copperfield Review
- Catholic Fiction
- The Owl Bookmark
- The Book Garden
- SusieBookworm
- Col Reads
- The Midwest Book Review
- The Atheist’s Quill
- Amazon
- Goodreads
- Library Thing
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Free ebook now available in all digital formats.
Like most bloggers, I obsess over my “views” and track which articles are most popular. Hands down, anything about Hypatia draws the most readers and generates the most discussion. As a favor to my readers and Hypatia fans, I put all the material in one place. This article and many others from my website, this blog and guest posts are now collected in a free ebook available at Smashwords.com. Even if you don’t have an ereader, you can download the book in HTML, PDF or RTF and read on your computer. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Faith, your blog looks great. the posts have a lot of tremendous information and had to have taken quite a while to craft. I like your tag cloud a lot. It shows the breadth or your subject matter. Glad you linked to your ebook and paperbacks–nice quotes. I am interested that you chose only three categories when I can easily see your blog expanding to incorporate more–chronological categories would be one possiblity but also geographical. Jenny
Thanks, Jenny! I like your idea and will expand my categories in the near future. So many things to do and so little time!
Hi Faith…
Just wanted to say thanks for reading my humble little movie blog and leaving a comment. Not sure how the heck you found my site, but I appreciate the readership and the feedback.
I’ll definitely be reading your AGORA series to learn more about the differences between the film and the facts.
- Hatter
Thanks for commenting on my Humanities West blog entry about Agora. Your “reel vs real” entries were very informative, and I have posted a link to them on our Facebook page (as well as a modest plug for Selene of Alexandria). If you are on Facebook, please take a look.
The blog looks great, and I think a number of our Facebook “fans” will find it appealing. I’ve also ordered the book for myself.
By the way, do you know of any good historical novels about Venice in its heyday (say 12th to 16th century). It’s the topic of our next program in San Francisco, and I’m responsible for making reading recommendations for our audience.
I am on Facebook and checked it out–thanks for the link and plug, Chuck. And special thanks for buying Selene! I hope you enjoy it. I don’t know much about Venice in its heyday, but I’ll check/post on a couple of forums I belong to and see what shows up. BTW, do you know if they have anything like Humanities West in the East? It looks like lots of fun.
As far as we know, Humanities West is a unique concept and format: a multi-disciplinary exploration of historical “hot spots” with a mix of lecture, performance, and discussion spread over a two-day period, usually three times a year. It was started 26 years ago in San Francisco by some young women who wanted to create a broader context for period musical performances.
Although it’s hard to describe, and even harder to market, the organization has survived through multiple economic cycles and continues to attract a loyal audience of 800-1000 people (double counting those who attend both Friday evening and Saturday daytime) to each program. If you are interested, a list of past program topics can be found on our website: humanitieswest.org.
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Hello Faith,
I’m just checking all the HFO member’s sites, or at least, for the moment, those who welcomed me. I’d just like to say thank you.
I only have time for a quick look on this occasion, but I like your web pages and blogsite; very feminine, aesthetic, ethereal and tasteful.
All the very best for 2012
T.D. McKinnon
Thanks for dropping by T.D. and the best of luck with your books!
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