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Tapestry of Bronze
a set of novels
based on Heroic Greek myths
The Tapestry of Bronze is a series of historical novels by
Victoria Grossack and Alice Underwood, set in the ancient world. The first strand in this tapestry is Iokaste, the story of the Queen of
Thebes who was both wife and mother to Oedipus. In this novel we answer
millennia-old questions: when did Iokaste realize she was married to her son?
And what did she do about it? All the Tapestry of Bronze novels are based on the Greek myths
and take place in the time of heroes, during the Late Bronze Age. Reading the
myths closely, and noting the connections between characters, we are creating
a set of interwoven stories. We use archaeological and geographical
information whenever we can find it, in order to reconstruct a past that
might have been; however, these are still works of fiction and should be read
as such. At this website you can find information about the novels
we've written, and our current writing project. We share our approaches to
writing, and some of the story behind the stories. We also provide some of
the information we used for our research, both a print bibliography and links
to other sites. To contact the authors, send an e-mail to "tapestry at
tapestryofbronze.com".
Breaking News!
Tapestry of Bronze is holding a series of poetry contests
dedicated to the Olympian gods. You can enter the sixth one, dedicated to Athena
(Minerva), until November 30, 2010. You can read the entry rules now so you
can get started on your poems, by clicking on Odes to Olympians Poetry Contest. From that page you can
visit the poetry of some of our past winners: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter
and Hermes have all been honored by some of today’s talented poets.
* * * Kedros Publishers of Athens, Greece has published Niobe & Pelops: Children of Tantalus
in Spring 2009! Yes, this is in
Greek... Even if you don't read Greek, check out the beautiful cover at
* * * In January, 2007, we terminated our contract with the original
publisher of Iokaste. The
book is now in the hands of our agent, Alice Tasman of the Jean V Naggar
Literary Agency. Copies can still be purchased at Amazon: select one of the
other sellers.
* * * Victoria wrote a series of articles at Fiction Fix -
interviews with booksellers. The most recent are in the April 2007 issue of
Fiction Fix, and include interviews with Gayle Shanks of Changing Hands in
Tempe, Arizona and Amelia Reisling of Books without Borders in Eugene,
Oregon. Previous interviews (found in the archives) include: Laura Hansen of
Bookin' It in Minnesota;Pam Headrick of A Thirsty Mind in Texas; Fern Jaffe
of Paperbacks Plus in the Bronx; Cindy Heidemann, a representative of
Publishers Group West; Karen Hopkins, a representative of Random House; Cindi
White of the bookstore Title Wave of Alaska; Betsy Burton of The King's
English in Salt Lake City, Utah; Karen Spengler and Becci West of "I
Love a Mystery" in Mission, Kansas; Lyn Roberts of Square Books; Lelia
Taylor of Creatures 'n Crooks; Mitchell Kaplan of Books & Books of
Southern Florida; and with Susan Warren of South Point, North Carolina. To
see these interviews, click on the current issue of Fiction Fix,
or visit the archives.
* * * After having her writing columns used in many situations
(sometimes without permission) Victoria has pulled together her columns on
Levels of Structure in Fiction to make an e-book. To check it out, GO
HERE.
* * * Iokaste was published in
Greek in spring 2006 by Kedros Publishing, one of the top five publishers in
Greece!
* * * The April/May, 2006 issue of Neo Magazine has a piece on How Two American Women wrote about Greek women. We thank
the staff of Neo for their interest.
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