User:Elisabeth Storrs

Elisabeth Storrs is an Australian author who graduated from the University of Sydney in Arts Law, having studied Classics. She lives with her husband and two sons in Sydney and over the years has worked as a solicitor, corporate lawyer and corporate governance consultant. She is the former Deputy Chair of the NSW Writers’ Centre and one of the co-founders of the Historical Novel Society Australasia.

Elisabeth considers herself a ‘hybrid’ author who was traditionally published in Australia, then gained a readership in the global historical fiction community through self-publishing her Tales of Ancient Rome Saga. This led her to securing an international publishing contract with Lake Union publishers.

The Tales of Ancient Rome consist of three novels, The Wedding Shroud, The Golden Dice and Call to Juno. They chronicle the story of a young Roman girl married against her will to an Etruscan nobleman to seal a truce. Her decision to favour her husband's city over her birthplace leads to a ten year siege between the Etruscan city of Veii and the nascent Republican Rome in 406-396 BC. The love story is fictional but the background to the book is based on the histories related by Livy, Plutarch and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The books in the trilogy have been endorsed by Ursula Le Guin, Ben Kane, Kate Quinn, Helen Hollick and Sherry Jones.

Iefke van Kampen, the curator of the Museo Dell'Agro Veientana, in Formello, Italy, is currently collaborating with Elisabeth to create a 'talking heads' exhibition of votive statuary excavated at Veii which will be voiced by the characters in the novels.