DARK MIST RISING: AVALON UNVEILED

        A ninth century, mounted Pictish warrior either drinks from or blows upon an eagle-headed horn. From a carved Pictish stone at Invergowrie, Scotland, now in the Museum of Scotland. {{PD-US} }   Amazons, Scythians, and Picts: all names out of legend.  Ancient Greeks such as Homer and Herodotus reported Amazons dying on the beaches of Troy, harboring Heracles, and, most astonishing of all, fighting Greeks with spears and arrows.  The patriarchal Greeks were mystified and horrified by these fighting women.  Some of them, like Alexander the Great, who is said to have hunted lions with the Amazon “queen”, Thalestris, were enthralled with them.  Others, like Achilles, were dismayed to find themselves in combat with women who considered themselves on a par with, and even superior to, men.  The ongoing Greek fascination with Amazons transmitted itself onto the ferocious figures depicted on their pottery, ma...

"The Tyrant and the Twins" is now available on Nook!

Only True Magic: Author Interview - S.A. Watson : Today I'm interviewing S.A. Watson, author of The Tyrant and the Twins .  The Tyrant and the Twins is not a medieval romance.  Nor ...

Hear ye, hear ye!  My new book, The Tyrant and the Twins , is out on Kindle!  Tell your friends, tell your family, tell strangers on the street you've never met!  Look for it under author's name "S. A. Watson"!  You can get it on Kindle/Amazon.com!  (And the Kindle application is free on the Iphone)!  I'm looking forward to your reviews!

Helmet from the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo Burial Well, Folks, looks like I'm down to the wire!   The Tyrant and the Twins , Book I of The Annals of Anavere , comes out on Kindle tomorrow!  See below, for a quick look! Pictish or Briton Birdlip Mirror The Tyrant and the Twins is not a medieval romance.  Nor is it one of the many contemporary updates of Arthurian legend, peppered with modern jokes and slang.  It is, rather, the reworking of an ancient tale, embedded in an archaic time and presented as its fifth-century characters would have portrayed themselves. Herein, no white knight in shining armor rides the lists, a lady’s silken kerchief floating from his lance.  No wizard wearing a pointed hat waves a birchen wand to summon the wind.  No impossibly indefatigable hero rescues a damsel in distress.  No one disappears into a mysterious – and fictional – otherworld.  No quixotic fairy story, this. Instead, brutish warriors, contrastingly arm...

Well, Big Internet World Out There: My first historical fiction novel, "The Tyrant and the Twins", is set to be published on Kindle in TWO DAYS: on Saturday, March 31, 2012!  I'm really excited!  (And not a little stressed out and tired!  Wink)! I've been really busy putting the finishing touches on it: setting up the forward pages, like the title page, table of contents, and acknowledgements; writing and editing the final chapters and epilogue; editing the appendices, and more! Conversely, the item that has taken the most time is the art!  I've done all my own art, including the cover art and five separate pieces for the scene breaks!  Since I haven't put pen to paper (except to write) in over a decade, that was a brave, new world!  (Or a risky, old one)!  I'm proud -- and relieved -- to report that the girl's still got it!  The drawings have turned out great, and some are even better than I could ever have expected!  I'm thrilled! S...

...comes out on Kindle in 9 DAYS!  Can't w8!