Summer is ending and oh how I wish I was still in the Caribbean. I had a wonderful vacation this year (even if there were hints of Lovecraftian horrors!), but I’d go back to Atlantis in a heartbeat, and I imagine I could get a ton of writing done in between dips in the Cove….
My plans to write a more elaborate post this week were scuttled by my unforgiving travel schedule, but I did have enough time to find another amusing video from the talented folks at Horrible Histories. Hope you enjoy it! (You can watch “Vikings vs. Monks” here too.)
After a lot of book reviews, I’m aiming for some light-hearted fresh-scraped vellum humor for this week, thanks to the folks at Horrible Histories (and YouTube, of course – you can watch it here too). Incidentally, in the Middle Ages vellum was made from calfskin, and parchment was made from sheepskin. I even included a…
I’m back from fishing – without any sighting of the Midgard Serpent, I might add – and back to a mountain of work. I had planned on writing a post on why I chose an Irish monk as the main character for my upcoming novel, Enoch’s Device. But since I’ve lacked the time to give that post…