Thanks for stopping in and here's to the start of a great week.
Being fascinated with all things
Egyptian, I’m happy to host Katie Hamstead,
who is going to tell us about the research that went into producing her book, Kiya:
Hope of the Pharaoh.
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First up, thank you for allowing me to
guest post here! I’m really excited about my debut NA Novel, Kiya: Hope
of the Pharaoh. It’s is a Historical Romance released by Curiosity Quills. It’s
the first book in the trilogy following Naomi’s (Kiya) life. It’s set during
the late 18th Dynasty of Egypt, and begins when she is taken to be a wife of
the infamous heretic pharaoh, Akhenaten.
This story took a lot of effort to
write. With most of the characters being real historical figures, like
Kiya herself, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Horemheb, Ay, the three Queen
daughters and Tutankhamen just to name a few, I needed to do a TON of reading
and research on each and every one of them. I then had to figure out a timeline
of events and line all their lives up. There was math to work out ages and
corresponding dates.
