Susie Helme

Susie Helme is an American from Nashville, Tennessee, living in London, after sojourns in Tokyo, Paris and Geneva with a passion for ancient history, politics and magic, mythology and religion. She is a political activist and a socialist. She now subedits Dignity magazine, writes historical novels and grows organic vegetables. She offers freelance services proofreading or developmental editing for authors needing help with their novels and is open to offers of review-swapping and mutual beta-reading.

The Lost Wisdom of the Magi

Set against a background of the Jewish Revolt against Rome of 66-70CE, this historical fiction novel tells the story of Sophia, a Babylonian Jew who secretly studies the magic on cuneiform tablets. She runs away from home and joins with the militants of Qumran. As the Zealots battle to defend Jerusalem against Titus, she falls in love with a Greek freedman, Athanasios, a comrade in arms. But revolutionary Jerusalem is not the paradise of which they had dreamed, and messiahs may prove false.