Category: RESEARCH NOTES
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Capri, Italy
One of the pleasures of writing Historical Fantasy is discovering and learning about real places and real legends, real histories. My research for Book Two of The Crystal Crux series has taken me to the isle of Capri, a tourists wonderland south of Naples (Parthenope). I plan to make good…
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Greece Part One
I have a category on this website for my research notes and this posting will be one of those types of postings. I’ve been spending a great deal of time this weekend researching Greece, everything from history to mythology, landscapes, maps and climate. It has been a bit exhausting. If…
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The Sappers
“Follow the sapper is a timeless cry.” – 1995 Throughout the history of warfare, there was a need for men willing to battle not the enemy themselves but the defenses they erected to protect themselves. Today, the role of sapper is referred to as engineers. These men and women apply…
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VESTAL VIRGINS
It’s kind of strange how generational misrepresentation of the vestal virgins has resulted in the institution being regarded by some as something sexual and perverse. Nothing could be further from the truth. The vestal virgins were priestesses (2, 4 and eventually 6 women) serving the goddess Vesta, attending religiously the…
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A Civil War
So I had finally decided where my story would play out. My book series, ‘The Crystal Crux,’ would stay in Italy, around Naples. I now needed a time period. The Middle Ages is a continent of time and events. There is so much to choose from. Wanting to escape the…
Author Allen M Werner 