What makes a good superhero? And why would Zenobia be a strong superhero?

See our full article on what-makes-a-good-superhero 

Below we've added why we think Zenobia would be a strong superhero. 

 

Zenobia trains as a warrior in Zenobia – Birth of aLegend and becomes elite with her bow and arrow andextremely skilled with a sword.

     In Zenobia – Challenging a Legend, Zenobia disguisesherself to get up close and personal with her enemies.

Zenobia should have been put to death at birth justbecause she was a girl. She was raised pretending to be aboy. That gave her plenty of motivation to prove a girlcan be just as useful as a man.  

 

Zenobia – a true historical figure from 3rd centurySyria, led her armies against Rome. She rode onhorseback wearing full armor.

 

•   Real or fictional superheroes show us how to stand up for what it right.

Zenobia is a great example of what a super hero is andthe world needs to learn about her amazing story. 

Tune in next week as we explore female super heroes.

Zenobia a Superhero

An interesting article on Entertainment weekly:

12 Signs It’s a Joss Whedon Project…

 1. Strong Women

 Read full article at http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20302134_20738454_30025734,00.html

Joss Whedon is known for writing scripts with strong female characters. Whedon’s work has reached cult status, like, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Also, my all time favorite TV series “Firefly” and the movie “Serenity,” which had plenty of strong women characters.

Whedon’s lists of accomplishments are long with great creative characters, men and women. Right now the entertainment industry is on a big Superhero kick. Wouldn’t it be great to have more novels, comic books, and movies that have strong female Superheroes?

AH HA! I FOUND ONE.  Shannon Hale, my favorite author and movie screenwriter wrote recently about loving Superheroes growing up but not having enough female superheroes.  I completely understand. Check out Shannon’s new book coming out March 4th called “Dangerous” that has a female Superhero.

I think we need to support great projects like this to let the world know we want more. See Shannon Hale’s blog at: http://oinks.squeetus.com/2014/02/a-dangerous-history.html

To me, Zenobia would be the perfect Superhero, especially since she’s a real person in history.  I’m always surprised that she’s been overlooked in the history books. Her story is unknown but what a great story it is. It’s time to get to know Zenobia. She’s a strong woman who stands up for justice. She conquered Egypt, battled alongside her troops, and challenged Rome. Now that is real Superhero status.

Would you like to see a movie about Zenobia the Superhero?

If I could do the casting for the movie about Zenobia the Superhero, I would get Lorrisa Julianus to play our lovely butt kicking Zenobia.  She’s already well acquainted with the part of Zenobia.  Lorrisa Julianuscreated Zenobia the Musical and did an excellent job playing Zenobia.

Zenobia with a determined look, “if looks could kill.”
(Lorrisa Julianus)

Zenobia the deadliest women who ever lived (Lorrisa Julianus)

Check out the FB page for the musical at https://www.facebook.com/zenobiathemusical

Wouldn’t it be great if we could get Joss Whedon,

Shannon Hale, and Lorrisa Julianus on board to write a

movie script for the Zenobia series?  I’d love to see

Zenobia on the big screen someday. For now, I’m going

to enjoy Zenobia the book series by Russ Wallace and

read about how she tries to change the world for the

better.

So what do you say, would you like to see more female

superheroes?

Another strong female character can be found in book two, Zenobia - Challenging a Legend.

Meet Tyrianna a sub-plot character from Zenobia - Challenging a Legend. 

As we are editing book two and we've run into some historical questions on where Tyrianna is from. Read from our website to learn how we came up with Tyrianna's home country Nubia. http://geodepress.com/zenobia-challenging-a-legend-book-two-in-our-young-adult-historical-fiction/

http://ib205.tripod.com/foreign_lands.html

    

Nubia has a long history of queen rulers. Tyrianna is a strong-minded female like Zenobia. They will become fast friends in book two, Zenobia- Challenging a Legend. 

It's Olympic time! Zenobia would've loved to participate in the ancient Olympics but was she allowed?

Read historical facts about the ancient Olympics and modern-day Olympics. For instance, do you know when women first started participating in the Olympics? Go to our website to get the answer:  http://geodepress.com/zenobia-in-the-ancient-olympic-games/

Here's some modern-day Olympic firsts:

1908: Madge Syers wins the first women’s Olympic gold medal in figure skating.

• Ski jumping will be offered for women for the first time ever at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

Fans can't wait for book two, Zenobia - Challenging a Legend to be released.

We love to hear from fans who've read Zenobia - Birth of a Legend, book one in the Zenobia book series. Here's what one fan said: 

"Please hurry with ZENOBIA – CHALLENGING A LEGEND and more books like it. I couldn't put it down! I think women and girls should make this a MUST READ. Thank you for the reading pleasure."

More editing of Zenobia - Challenging a Legend but this scene goes down the toilet.

It is not what you think when we say the editing goes down the toilet. You think we mean we scrapped the scene and threw it out but we didn't. We're literally talking about toilets in this scene.

Read all about it on our website:  http://geodepress.com/this-post-has-gone-down-the-toilet-as-we-edit-a-scene-in-zenobia-challenging-a-legend-book-two-in-our-young-adult-historical-series/



We hope you're enjoying the editing process as we are sharing from book two, Zenobia - Challenging a Legend, a young adult historical fiction. Coming soon!

Zenobia - Challenging the Legend, a young adult historical series about the warrior queen Zenobia

Russ Wallace, the author of Zenobia - Birth of a Legend is hard at work getting book two, Zenobia - Challenging a Legend ready for release. 

You can read from our website http://geodepress.com/ as we highlight book two in our young adult historical series about the warrior queen Zenobia. 

We'll share with you some of the research we do to make sure it's historically accurate to 3rd century when Zenobia lived. We're finding all kinds of interesting tidbits about ancient history while doing the editing process. 

For example, While Zenobia is in Alexandria, Egypt she finds herself in a deadly situation as a wicked blood thirsty man  is wanting to seduce her and gives her a gift- a sapphire necklace with an alloy of gold that looks like silver. 

Click on the link to go to our website and read what part of this necklace is historically correct and what part is not-

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Check back for more historically correct items. For instance, did they have indoor bathrooms in the 3rd century?