The not-so-secret giveaway of the Ionian Alliterati

Over at The Secret Archives of the Alliterati, my friend the very wonderful L.T. Host is giving away not only a copy of The Ionia Sanction, but also a copy of The Pericles Commission to go with it!    Plus some statuettes and some bookmarks.  Now that's what I call swag.  I had no idea she was planning such a smorgasbord.

Head on over if you'd like both books in the series.

Thanks L.T.!

Dead mice

If stoneware containers full of dead mice are your thing, head on over to Kari Dell's Montana For Real.  Kari is an agent-sister of mine and writes about life on a ranch.

I think I'll consider that a companion post to go with my previous effort on mouse cuisine.

First two chapters of Ionia Sanction at Criminal Element

Criminal Element is a fan site run by Macmillan.  The lovely Laura at Criminal Element has just posted the first two chapters of The Ionia Sanction.

They'll also be posting two articles from me in the coming weeks.  I wrote them as something like a Beginner's Guide to crime and punishment in the classical world, the audience being the 95% of Criminal Element readers who don't spend their every waking moment reading ancient history.  Regular readers of this blog will probably find them straightforward!

So anyway, if you'd like to know how the book starts, click the link and have a read!

Ionia Sanction: the Burn Notice of the ancient world?

Joanne Renaud has written a review of The Ionia Sanction, in which she likens it to Burn Notice.  Which if nothing else is an interesting juxtaposition!  (Burn Notice is a TV spy/adventure show set in Miami.)

To go along with it I've written a guest blog there which has nothing to do with spies: Romance and Love in a Classical World.

Gary almost causes a divorce

Over at chez Pacheco, they just happen to have two ARCs of The Ionia Sanction.  And they just happen to be giving both ARCs away to lucky visitors.  This almost caused a divorce.

To find out about Gary's divorce-enhancing powers, and to win a copy of The Ionia Sanction, head on over to Anthony Pacheco: Rehabilitated Hack Writer and leave a comment.  What could be simpler?

(I refuse to believe the dear lad was ever a hack writer, but still.)