I’ve been looking forward to the early 18th Century pirate drama Black Sails for months now, and I was both surprised and excited to learn that it promises to be a prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island! If you’ve watched the first episode of Black Sails, you already know that the production values are top…
I came late to Pinterest, and probably still am not utilizing all of its features, but I’ve found it to be a wonderful place to collect pictures. In researching the sequel to Enoch’s Device, I started using it to store images of historical sites around Rome (where much of the new novel is set), and…
It’s been a wild work week, so there was not much time for writing on the blog. But I can share a little bit of monkish humor on the Friday before a three-day weekend, thanks to the talented folks at Horrible Histories!
The trailer for Season 4 of HBO’s Game of Thrones looks amazing! It will be hard to wait until April 6th!
Well, 2014 has started with a flurry (and not just of the winter variety), which means I’m quite busy with both work and writing. So for this week’s post, here’s a little Saxon humor of the divine/pagan variety to get the New Year off to a good start, all thanks to the talented folks at Horrible…
The things I’ve always enjoyed about Dan Brown’s books have been the historical/religious elements, the European settings, and the puzzle-like plots. I know a lot of literary critics and book reviewers are critical of Dan Brown’s writing style (here’s a great example), but I don’t get too wrapped up in that. I generally find the…
This past weekend, my daughter and I saw The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second installment of Peter Jackson’s take on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (you can read my review of the novel here). Unlike The Lord of the Rings, where each book in the trilogy fits nicely into its own 3-hour film, Jackson…
December 22, 2012 marked the day Enoch’s Device was first published, so I’m celebrating its anniversary by putting the Kindle version on sale at Amazon for the next 7 days! In a recent review, Cate Peace of Indie Books R Us called it “a refreshing twist on the religious thriller, and one that will have you turning pages from…
When last I left my series on The Magic of Medieval Fiction, we were in the Sixth Century – the age of Beowulf, the subject of one of England’s most famous epic poems. The tale was the inspiration for Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead, and has spawned numerous films, both live and animated. I…
Every once in a while I read a novel that reminds me why I adore historical fantasy. It starts with the historical setting, a window to a world in our past and a chance to learn a bit of history – a trait that all well written historical fiction shares. But add in a bit…
I came late Fox’s Sleepy Hollow. I read about it before the season aired, but thought it was merely a modern day retelling of the story that was already done to perfection by Tim Burton in his movie, Sleepy Hollow. So, I decided to pass. It wasn’t until the show started to pick up some…