For this Halloween, I’m republishing my flash fiction story titled The Devil’s Bridge. It’s based on a Welsh legend about an old woman and her deal with the devil – on the eve of Samhain (Halloween). Hope you enjoy it! Bryn dreaded the hike to the devil’s bridge, though she dreaded the full moon even more. Its…
I once wrote that every great journey tale needs a map. Well, the sequel to Enoch’s Device—titled The Key to the Abyss—is no exception. Here’s a peek at a wonderful map of medieval Rome created by illustrator Jeff Mathison that will be featured in my upcoming novel. I absolutely love this map! Feel free to…
To thank readers who followed the blog’s move to my new website, I’m offering everyone who joins my Reader List a FREE ebook of Mava’s Echo: A Short Story of Celtic Myth and Magic. Originally published in Mindflights in 2010, Mava’s Echo is a work of historical fantasy and happens to be the first short…
As anyone following the blog this year knows, I’m experimenting with writing more short fiction. I haven’t given up on novels by any means, but short fiction will allow me to produce more content at a quicker pace. To this end, I’m also reading more short stories, and the most recent ones brought me back…
As I edit away on my next novel, I have a suggestion for anyone suffering withdrawals since the season end of Game of Thrones: Watch a show about the War of the Roses, history’s real life game of thrones. It’s been well publicized that the historical War of the Roses helped inspire George R.R. Martin’s…
While I’ve been writing about Black Sails, a prequel to Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, today I’m posting a review of Robert Masello’s The Jekyll Revelation, a story based on another of Stevenson’s famous tales. The Jekyll Revelation is a clever play on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr….
For my final post of 2016, here’s my review of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Unholy Night. I had hoped to write this before Christmas, as the book is somewhat pertinent to that event, but alas holiday shopping and work got in the way. Yet as they say, better late than never . . . I may never…
Tis the season for holiday sales, so the Kindle version of Enoch’s Device is on sale for the next four days. If you’ve read the novel and enjoyed it, now is a perfect time to tell a friend! Here’s what the book is about: Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that the…
Today, Fresh-scraped Vellum is one of the final stops on the blog tour for Written in the Ashes, a wonderful historical fantasy by author K. Hollan Van Zandt. It’s published by Harper Collins and available here. I was also lucky enough to interview Ms. Van Zandt, and that interview follows my review of the novel….
I recently finished Dead Man’s Reach by D.B. Jackson, the fourth book in his Thieftaker series. The book turned out to be another excellent installment in Jackson’s historical fantasy tale set in Colonial Boston. Here’s my review. Dead Man’s Reach presents another mystery for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker whose job involves hunting down thieves and…
Isn’t this Throwback Thursday? In honor of this fairly recent tradition, I’m re-posting my 2012 review of one of the greatest works of epic fiction I’ve read in a long, long time . . . For several years now, I’ve been interested in medieval Spain, and about a quarter of my first novel takes place in…