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Roxanne Gregory
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Award-winning screenwriter, author & journalist. Author of The Gladiatrix Chronicles,Boudicca's Revenge,Love and Lust A Legionary Romance. NF author of A History of Pirate Women (2025) & Working the Tides. X refugee https://x.com/RoxGregory01
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Meet some of history's most infamous sword-wielding, swash-buckling women in A History of Women in Piracy Life Under the Black Flag #QuestPit #A #NF #P
Available now at Pen and Sword, Amazon etc.
Pirates Ann Bonny with a pistol and Mary Read with a sabre.
November 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Beyond the Gate #QuestPit #A #F #H #T #W #Q Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officers can wed. Unwilling to wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond fortress gates with the other 'wives' when an officer goes missing.Who killed Quintus & why?
Newspaper front page The Legionary Times Headline: Augustus Bans Marriage for Troops, Senate awards Caesar Triumph, Genocide fake News, legions say. Officer goes missing, Skilled weavers wanted--see Marcella beyond the gate.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the legions Brotherhood of Sol Invictus. #QuestPit #A #H #S #Q
Mt Olympus and a blood moon spells magic and murder for Aoife and Roman General Germanicus.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Survivor, slave, gladiatrix. Blood justice coming soon! Skrittchers, dream-eaters, ghosts of the untimely dead and a demon wearing the skins of men challenge Aoife, a prescient Druid priestess who defies the odds in the arena in Gladiatrix Daughter of War. #QuestPit #A #F #H #Spec #P
A barbarian gladiatrix stands before the Colosseum
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Finished a shadow box. Germani spear tip, lead slingstone, Iceni spear head, strap ends, lorica plumata, 1 piece of lorica segmentatae, cheek guard bit, propeller belt stiffeners. #AncientRome #AncientHistory #AncientWorld
Let me take you to the 1st century...
Ancient Roman artefacts.
October 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#GhostPit #A #F #T #Spec #Q Aoife & Roman Gen. Germanicus face mutiny & murder, but when he commits genocide against Germania's Shining Sisters she leaves for Greece, where she enters the Mysteries becoming the Hand of the Dark Mothers in their unending war against the Brotherhood of Sol Invictus.
Headline in the Gender Fluid Times newspaper. Aoife, a barbarian witch and gladiatrix leaves her Roman general for his Medicus Legionis a transgendered surgeon who becomes her lover. Other headlines read Senate Awards Caesar Triumph and Rumors of Genocide Fake News Legions say in Midnight on Olympus.
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Beyond the Gate #GhostPit #A #F #Historical #Thriller #W
Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can be wed. Unwilling to wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gates with the other 'wives' when an officer goes missing...
The Legion Times front page features headlines and a lonely soldier looking over wild Germania, a Roman woman, a legionary fortress gate and a barbarian with an axe on the other side of that gate.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Survivor, slave, gladiatrix. Blood justice coming soon! Skrittchers, dream-eaters, ghosts of the untimely dead and a demon wearing the skins of men challenge Aoife, a prescient Druid priestess who defies the odds in Gladiatrix Daughter of War. #GhostPit #A #H #WF #Thriller #Spec #P
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A History of Women in Piracy Life Under the Black Flag #GhostPit #A #NF #P
Meet some of history's most infamous sword-wielding women.
Available now at Pen and Sword, Amazon, etc
Anne Bonny with a pistol on the beach before an anchored treasure ship and colourfully dressed Mary Read, a transgendered pirate who valiantly fought for two armies, wields a sword and axe at her opponents.
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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"Weeds! Weeds! That time of year..." the perpetual gardener never enough time... #Gardening #Weeds #Halloween #Samhain
A scantily clad skeleton stands in a garden with a trowel and flowers in hand bemoaning the never ending weeding as a perpetual gardener. Skelly Ellie stands beside a jack-o-lantern, mums and a potted juniper
October 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Rough-neck grouse
struts his stuff
across my lawn
His timid mate
warms their eggs
waiting...
#randomactsofpoetryday #poetry #wildlife #nature
#wildlifephotography
A fine rough-neck grouse struts his stuff across my lawn-- British Columbia
October 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Singing the songs of their people...
Sea lions on a log boom in Howe Sound. #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography
September 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Caught this mama eyeing the raccoons on my deck. #Wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #photography
A mama coyote pauses while stalking raccoons on my deck.
September 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A History of Women in Piracy #UnhingedPit #NF #A #P #CS
Meet some of the most successful, swashbuckling pirate women ever to sail the seven seas! Available for pre-order Pen and Sword, Amazon, B&N, etc.
September 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Beyond the Gate #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Thriller #Women's
Forced to join the legions or lose the farm,Titus must divorce Marcella as only officer's can be wed. Unwilling to wait his 20-yr deployment, Marcella lives beyond the fortress gates with the other 'wives' when an officer goes missing...
September 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Midnight on Olympus #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Thriller #Spec #LGBT The Gladiatrix Chronicles
Breaking news from the 1st century's Gender Fluid Times!
Unable to save Germania's Shining Sisters, Aoife leaves Germanicus Caesar for Greece. Entering the Mysteries she discovers her Dark Mother.
September 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Gladiatrix Daughter of War #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Spec #Thriller #LGBT
Available on Amazon now!
Looking for a producer.
See Aoife's award-winning trailer on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=rToo...
September 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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A History of Women in Piracy Life Under the Black Flag #UnhingedPit #A #NF #P #CS
Meet some of history's most infamous sword-wielding women.
Available now for pre-order at Pen and Sword, Amazon, etc
A History of Women in Piracy non-fiction available now Sword and axe wielding pirate woman and another with a pistol
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Beyond the Gate #UnhingedPit #A #Thriller #Historical #Women's #Q
September 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Midnight on Olympus #UnhingedPit #A #Historical #Thriller #LGBT #Q Tabloid
September 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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#UnhingedPit #A #Thriller #Historical #LGBT #Spec #P
Gladiatrix Daughter of War
First Century--A young British barbarian Druid is enslaved by Rome as a gladiatrix becomes Rome's celebrated champiuon
September 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Love & Lust A Legionary Romance - Castra Vetera's top doc Medicus Galenus falls for Marcus, a disgraced siege-works engineer plagued with survivor's PTSD. In a May/Dec romantic thriller, Marcus & Galenus find love while facing bloody barbarians, ghosts, plague & Caesar. #questpit #A #H #T #LGBTQ #Q
Two legionary soldiers at the baths.
August 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Gladiatrix Daughter of War - I am Aoife, survivor of the Druidic Ynys Môn genocide, Piso's brothel slave, witch of Roman General Germanicus, Hand of the Dark Mothers and I will have blood justice for my people! Book I in the Gladiatrix Chronicles avail now. #questpit #A #H #T #W #P
A first century British barbarian woman stands in the corridor of a Roman temple
August 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Lose the farm or join the legions? Titus divorces Marcella as only officers can wed.She lives outside his Germania frontier fortress with the other 'barbarian wives', when an officer goes missing. Who killed Quintus & why? Who survives Varus' doomed command? Beyond the Gate. #questpit #A #H #T #Q
First century Germania, the Roman frontier a solider stares across the landscape, a woman turns her back,a gate into the fortress is open.
August 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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My History of Women in Piracy a series of short biographies of women pirates from around the world published by Pen & Sword is available for pre-order now! #questpit #A #NF #H #W
A History of Women in Piracy non-fiction available for pre-order from Pen & Sword now. Short biographies of women pirates from around the world.
August 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM