The review of my novel Enoch’s Device is now up on Reader Views. Previously, the review, written by Marty Shaw, was published on Blogcritics. Here are some more excerpts from the review, which I first mentioned here: “I’ll be honest and admit I wasn’t a fan of Dan Brown’s ‘The DaVinci Code,’ so I was a…
Good tidings from Goodreads! A giveaway of 10 copies of Enoch’s Device kicks off today on Goodreads.com! Any Goodreads members can register to win. Enoch’s Device is a fast-paced medieval adventure steeped in history, mythology, and mysteries from a dark and magical past. You can enter for the giveaway here! Here are some quotes from recent…
One of the things I love about journey tales is all the different places they can take the reader. For example, my own novel, Enoch’s Device, begins at the monastery of Derry in Ireland, but the journey soon takes my protagonist to France (and the cities of Paris and Poitiers), and finally into the heart…
This week, Enoch’s Device received two more reviews on the web. Steven Reynolds’ review on SPR went live on February 12. You can read the complete review here, but here are some highlights: “Enoch’s Device is a wonderfully imagined, vividly described, alternately lyrical and violent romp of a novel that should give lovers of historical…
The Wayward Herald has been rather wayward of late (isn’t that the point), but he arrives once more with tidings from the Middle-Earth News. It seems that the film version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit has surpassed the first two films of The Lord of the Rings at the box-office. “According to Deadline, as of…
I’ve been travelling this week for work, and I’m way behind on blog posts. So for this week, I’m updating one of my first posts on puzzle-like plots.This month on the SFWA Blog author Terry Bisson offers 60 Rules for Short SF and Fantasy. I found Rule #3 particularly interesting: “The SF reader is a gamer…
This past week, the Wayward Herald came across a post in The Passive Voice about the closing of a number of Barnes & Noble bookstores across the U.S. The numbers quoted in the post, which comes from an article at Melville House titled The Wrong Goodbye of Barnes & Noble, are alarming: If you include…
Sadly, Bilbo and the dwarves have fallen down the dark goblin hole, while the vampires still sparkle in sunlight. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was outperformed at the domestic box office by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 by around $28 million in the first three weeks. The Twilight film grossed $249,598,866 after its…
My debut novel, Enoch’s Device, is now available in paperback at Amazon and the CreateSpace eStore! The novel also has its own webpage, enochsdevice.com. It was very cool to hold the first print edition of my novel in my own hands. It’s now going on the top shelf of my bookshelf, between The Arcanum and The Name…
Enoch’s Device is now up on Goodreads and Shelfari, so please tell your friends on those sites! Also, the novel is now available on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. A print version should be available starting in early January. In the meantime, you can check out my new author’s page on Amazon here. It…
My new novel, Enoch’s Device, is now available on Amazon! I have long awaited this day, and I’m grateful to be able to share it with you now. Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that the world will soon end, an Irish monk, Brother Ciarán, discovers an ominous warning…