Realms Of Gold The Novel

Etruscan Gold trumpet-shaped earrings with relief decoration

Gold trumpet-shaped earrings with relief decoration, Etruscan, Classical period, circa 5th-4th century BC Metropolitan Museum

Etruscan Gold Disc with Bees

Gold Disc with Bees, 700-600 BCE. Collection of Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Etruscan Gold: Ornate Earring

Earring. Etruscan, 6th century BC Gold Thorvaldsen Musuem

ETRUSCAN GOLD FILIGREE EARRINGS

Openwork ribbons filled with wire bands, bosses, scrolls. Probably from Vetulonia Ca. 1st 1-4 of the 7th cent. BC

American Library in Paris Book Award

On Friday 15 November 2013, the first annual American Library in Paris Book Award was given to Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, by Fredrik Logevall Logevall is a professor at Cornell University. His book also won the Pulitzer prize.

Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance, is pictured front row left. I am honored that my novel was among the accepted nominations.

Etruscan Gold Pendant on a Chain

Etruscan pendant on a chain 7th Cen. BC

Etruscan Gold: Amulet with a shark's tooth

Amulet with a shark's tooth. Etruscan, 5th century BC Thorvaldsens Museum

Terry Stanfill, born in West Haven, Connecticut, is a first generation American of Italian descent. She received a degree in English Literature and Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut.

For her efforts in raising funds for the restoration of San Pietro di Castello, the ancient cathedral of Venice, the President of Italy honored her with the Ordine al Merito, Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana, and Commendatore. She is Vice President Emerita of Save Venice, Inc, and was founder of The California Chapter of Save Venice, Inc.

Terry Stanfill is a founding director and Life Trustee of Los Angeles Opera. She is a Governor Emerita of the board of The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California as well as a Reader, her subject of research, the Normans in Southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries inspired her to write her first novel, The Blood Remembers.

Terry is married to Dennis Stanfill, former CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, and MGM.

Their daughter Francesca Stanfill Nye, is a novelist and journalist.

Their son, Dennis, is partner and managing director of HBDesign, Singapore.

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The images you'll see as you scroll down to the current text are all part of the story telling in my novel, Realms of Gold:Ritual to Romance.

Bianca Caldwell, pen name, Bianca Fiore, is a writer for an art magazine. In each of her monthly stories she describes an object used in ancient ritual.