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ABOUT JANE
Jane McCaa is the daughter of a clergyman
and a teacher. Born and raised in Scotland,
she moved to Bristol, England to go to Bristol
University, where she read for a first degree
in Greek, Ancient History and Archaeology,
her research degree was in the religion
of the Hittites (published as The Weather-God
in Hittite Anatolia - it's more good-humoured
than it sounds, and was a new approach to
understanding how environment can affect
religious perception) and, rather a long
time later, also gained a teaching qualification
in Religious Studies. In between whiles
she also gained a Diploma in Business Studies,
which has helped her make a living many
a time.
Jane has usually worked in and around
education, whether promoting it, publishing
for it or doing it as a researcher and teacher.
She has taught at everything from primary
to university level, with a major part of
her career history her years as part of
a dedicated and enthusiastic team of Lecturers
in Classics at Filton College, Bristol.
The questions raised by her students while
she taught in the Open University, and her
own research curiosity led to the publication
of two books on everyday living in the Ancient
World: A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
and A Day in the Life of Ancient Athens.
Both are still in print.
Jane has written plenty of ephemera,
including feature articles and reviews.
She was a film critic for some years - and
still misses it.
Apart from a varied and challenging
working life, Jane has a wide range of interests
- she is a trained singer and has given
recitals and run a choir, she has climbed
rock faces, pored over war-gaming, spent
many happy hours knitting and embroidering,
she collects languages, and has in recent
years been designing and making jewellery
for herself and on commission. The martial
arts in the Delos series are based on skills
she knows about (and some she knows how
to do).
She started writing science fiction
by instinct, even before she knew what it
was, starting with a story about a girl
taking her robot sister to school, complete
with kiddie's illustrations - perhaps she
ought to look it out. She has been working
on the Delos series for some years - book
two is now complete and book three being
hacked into shape - watch this website.
A short story, The Dig, was anthologised
by Black Cat Books in 2001. Jane now plans
to concentrate on writing, although she
continues to do some teaching (once a teacher
… ). There's more to come!
Accomplishments:
Jane McCaa is the author (as Hilary
J. Deighton)
of three non-fiction works
(so far):
The 'Weather-God' in Hittite Anatolia,
B.A.R. Oxford, 1982
A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome,
Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth,
1992
and later editions
A Day in the Life of Ancient Athens,
Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth,
1995
& later editions
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