Daniel B-M 📘

🏛 Ancient Rome | Roman Britain | Historical Fiction
🥉 HNS First Chapters Competition 2026
📖 Author of LEGIONARY’S DAWN
⚔️ Writing Book II: BLOOD & LAUREL

[Daniel B-M 📘 @BullMittens]

Delighted to share that LEGIONARY’S DAWN has been awarded 🥉 3rd Place in the Historical Novel Society First Chapters Competition (Ancient category).

#hns2026 #historicalfiction #hnsfirstchapterscompetition #historicalnovelsociety

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@KatesfWriter This is interesting and frustrating at the same time!

[Historical Novel Society @histnovsoc]

Roman tradition and early legal codes forbade parents from publicly mourning babies. But a new discovery adds to a growing body of evidence challenging the assumption that these were followed:

https://t.co/lO7FqbtM3F #Romans #RomanBritain

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Haworth is a beautiful little place ♥️.

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@KatesfWriter Beautiful!

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@eunicedraf277 Six chapters completed. 17k words into the first draft.

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Book II is well and truly underway. 12,000 words of the first draft down.

Work about to get in the way of my writing though 😮‍💨. I WILL reach my target! ⭐️

Rome wasn’t built in a day!

#AmWriting #HistoricalFiction #writingcommunity

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@KoalaQuillHQ Thank you!

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A productive day of writing Book II.

The story is growing darker, larger, and far more demanding.

#Amwriting #writingcommunity

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Ancient Rome fascinates people because it contains both extremes at once:

1️⃣ astonishing civilisation and 2️⃣ astonishing brutality.

That contradiction sits at the heart of everything I write.

#historicalfiction #writingcommunity

[Muse @xmuse_]

1,696 years ago today, Constantine renamed Byzantium to Constantinople and made it the New Capital of the Roman Empire. ⚔️

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@mcgillmd921 The Restorer of the World!

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@Earth38102 Edinburgh castle! Absolutely stunning.

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@Magical_places0 Edinburgh! Absolutely beautiful city.

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@BladeoftheS ☝️☝️☝️ this!

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@W0rld2026 You spend years reading about Rome… then suddenly you’re standing where history actually happened. Such an amazing experience!

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@nonregemesse “Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate…” Absolute chills every time.

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@UpdatingOnRome Moments like this are why late Republican Rome remains endlessly compelling. Politics, ambition, betrayal, legacy. All concentrated into a single room.

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@mcgillmd921 Salve! Now excuse me while I think about the Roman Empire for the rest of the day.

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Rome survived Hannibal, civil wars, and centuries of invasion. But by Honorius’ reign, the Empire seemed exhausted from within as much as threatened from without.

The sack of Rome in 410 must have felt unimaginable to contemporaries. For centuries, Rome had seemed eternal.

If you could witness one moment from the fall of the Western Roman Empire firsthand, what would it be?

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Rome celebrates victory in marble halls.

The soldiers who win it stand in the mug digging ditches in Britannia.

LEGIONARY’S DAWN 🥉
HNS First Chapters Competition 2026

#historicalfiction #RomanEmpire #amwriting

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Beautiful!

[Petersfield Bookshop @The_PBS]

Do you happen to need a first edition of The Lord of the Rings, the first printing of all three volumes, beautifully bound in full red leather, sitting within a custom made clamshell case? And oh, did I mention the actual Tolkien signature bound into the endpaper of Vol 1. ?

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@tolkienthoughts ♥️