If you love ancient history from a Christian perspective, this is the newsletter for you.
Do you think your ancestors were intelligent enough to build the pyramids without the help of aliens? Do you want to explore history from a biblical worldview?
As an author of ancient historical fiction, I spend far too much time researching weird history. And then I pick the coolest things I've found and share them with you.
Each month, I send out one email exploring:
Historical mysteries that we can't solve—but are fun to ponder anyway.
Ancient lives remembered (even you might have a Neanderthal Grandpa.)
Updates on my author journey and life as a mom of 10
"My favorite newsletter. I suppose I shall read it so long as it, and I, both live." Abraham Lincoln.*
*No. Abraham Lincoln did not say this, and if you're the type of person who actually reads footnotes, we need to be friends. His actual quote from an 1859 letter to a Chicago newspaper reads: "Herewith is a little draft to pay for [a subscription]. I suppose I shall take the Press and Tribune so long as it, and I, both live, unless I become unable to pay."
“[Shannon's] novel has it all—imagination, suspense, mystery, action. Wonderfully written and realized... a must-read for fans of biblical fiction.”
James Scott Bell,
International Thriller Writers Award winner
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In the fading days of the Ice Age, a monster is unleashed.
The Last Climb is a pulse-pounding, bite-sized tale of survival based on one of history’s greatest floods.
When young Chief Tupak feels the ground shake beneath his feet, he knows something is terribly wrong. The great river is not just rising—it’s coming, a wall of water taller than the trees, faster than an arrow in flight. As an unstoppable deluge crashes toward his village, Tupak must make an impossible choice: follow the advice of the past or forge a new path before the water swallows them all.
Inspired by real catastrophic geology, The Last Climb is a gripping survival story that echoes the legacy of the global flood. With the article What Was the Missoula Flood by Michael Oard, this snapshot of the apocalyptic disaster that shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest will be hard to forget.
Enjoyable Historical Fiction…a true geological history disaster story
Brittany Martin
Geologist, San Jose University
I'm Shannon, homeschool mom and storyteller.
As a girl, one of my favorite books was The World’s Last Mysteries by Reader’s Digest. It chronicled “ancient civilizations, unexplained catastrophes, and other mysteries from man’s past.” Or in other words, exactly the kind of thing I geek out over.
I'm an ancient history aficionado, homeschool mom, science nerd, beekeeper, and an unabashed fan of cheesy sci-fi TV, and I live in a small logging town in Oregon with my very own hero and our ten children.
My life could best be described as a love affair with beauty–which explains the number of babies--and my greatest joy is to know God, from whom all beauty comes.