by Fiona Ross | Aug 14, 2017 | My Fiction
Day 8 Perseus and Andromeda are two famous characters of Greek mythology. You can also see them as constellations in the night sky. Perseus was a son of the god Zeus and his mother was a mortal, the Princess Danaë. Taking a break from his busy timetable of heroic...
by Fiona Ross | Aug 7, 2017 | Articles
Writers Readers & Genre I’m talking about meeting genre expectations here, first with my writer’s hat on. Boilerplates and handcrafting, that is, which plot template should you use, are important considerations at the concept stage. As a reader,...
by Fiona Ross | Aug 5, 2017 | My Fiction
Day 6 In Greek mythology Orion the Hunter was placed in the heavens by Zeus, King of the Greek Gods, to honour him for dying in his last battle with a monstrous scorpion. Every true huntsman has a dog; Orion has two, Canis Minor and Canis Major in which you can find...
by Fiona Ross | Jul 11, 2013 | My Fiction
Blogger Summer Circus Giveaway Hop Day 11 Coma Berenices The constellation Coma Berenices is hard to spot from Earth. It is a sprinkling of stars as faint as fairy dust, but the story behind it is wonderful. Queen Berenice was...
by Fiona Ross | Jul 10, 2013 | My Fiction, Whimsy
Blogger Summer Circus Giveaway HopDay 10Early AstronomersThe astronomical work of astronomers like Ptolemy was crucial to the Egyptian civilization because the resulting calendars enabled the priests to predict the flooding of the Nile, upon which the...
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