Stephanie Thornton

AMERICAN PRINCESS has a new cover! I loved the original cover, but a lot of folks—including me—thought there was that extra something about Alice that we still hadn’t captured. Al...

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American Princess has a cover!  I love that Alice Roosevelt's verve comes through--I can just imagine her at a White House dinner party getting ready to light up a Lucky Strikes cigaret...

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To celebrate the international sale of both The Tiger Queens AND The Conqueror's Wife to the fabulous people at Nouvion Trade Sociedad Anonima (in Hungary! Woohoo!) I'm giving away a signed copy ...

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Here's the huge announcement from Publisher's Weekly that I've been dying to spill for the last month! "American Princess, about Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice, was preempted, in a wo...

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  The H-Team presents... Twelve bestselling historical authors bring to life to the glory of the ancient world in three novels spanning golden Greece to blood-soaked Rome: SONGS OF BLOOD AND...

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Troy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In ...

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It's cover reveal time for SONG OF WAR! Isn't she a beauty?!  The novel goes on sale October 18th, but it's available for pre-order at both Amazon and Kobo. You can also add it to your to-re...

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Summer is the time for hanging out on the deck or at the beach, a book in one hand and a cold drink in the other. So what's better than having a chance at winning one of my books--The Conqueror's...

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I've been sitting on this news for a while so I'm thrilled to finally be able to announce that I've joined the H Team to help write SONG OF WAR: A NOVEL OF TROY!  It's the Trojan War, but yo...

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In honor of their latest release about Patsy Jefferson, histfic authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie are hosting an epic online party this Wednesday, April 13th, which also happens to be Thoma...

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Today is the long-awaited release day for The Conqueror's Wife!  We are the women who loved Alexander the Great.  We were lovers and murderers, innocents and soldiers.And without us, Al...

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Monday, November 23 Review at With Her Nose Stuck in a Book Review & Giveaway at Peeking Between the Pages Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past   Tuesday, November 24 Review ...

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August 3rd-9th is Historical Fiction Week at Goodreads and a whole slew of histfic authors are open for questions about their books, characters, and fabulous historical settings.  Pop on ove...

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For those of you in the Denver area, I'll be joining a whole slew of amazing authors for the Historical Novel Society Conference this weekend. There will over 130 of us signing your favorite book...

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And here she is, the cover of my fourth novel, coming in December 2015 from New American Library/Penguin! It's a little different from my other covers, but I really like the mystery of this one. ...

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Love Netflix's Marco Polo or hate it, I'm over at Word and Film today with my take on the series and how Kublai Khan's various women stack up against, say... Daenerys Targaryen. P.S.--Benedict Wo...

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For those of you in the Eagle River area, I'll be joining The Living Room to read from The Tiger Queens this Friday, January 9th. The fun starts at 7PM at Jitters!And now I'm wondering if I shoul...

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Today kicks off a month long extravaganza of giveaways, interviews, and reviews for The Tiger Queens. There are giveaways at both stops today and I'm also at Let Them Read Books dishing on what G...

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 The marvelous folks at New American Library are giving away copies of The Tiger Queens from now until release on November 4th. There are five up for grabs now... Just follow the link to ent...

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It's crazy to believe, but it's only one month until The Tiger Queens releases on November 4th!  Stay tuned for details on the upcoming blog hop and the chance to win copies on Goodreads and...

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My Review: Hand of Fire is an expertly researched book that blends both the history and mythology of the Trojan War. I've always been intrigued by the character of Briseis, inspiring as she did A...

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I apparently like to torture myself by never writing the same style of book more than once. While all four of my novels focus on history's forgotten women, the way I've told those stories has dif...

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As I write this, I've just finished writing the second to last chapter on The Conqueror's Wife, my fourth novel starring Alexander the Great and his menagerie of wives, mistresses, and lovers. (N...

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My Review:   Curses and Smoke is a book I would have loved to read in junior high or high school, but that didn't stop me from devouring it even as an adult. The story of Tag and Lucia's rom...

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My review: In Becoming Josephine, Heather Webb's marvelous debut has spun the tangled web of a lively and intriguing Josephine, carrying the reader through her early life in Martinique to her nea...

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