I recently re-read William Goldman’s The Princess Bride for the first time in probably sixteen years. Although I also saw the film adaptation when it was released in 1987, I have probably watched the movie ten or twelve times, so I found it nearly impossible to separate my feelings about the book from Rob Reiner’s…
The Goodreads Giveaway for my novel Enoch’s Device closes in eight days. Click here to enter for a chance to win one of ten copies. Also, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and because my novel begins in Ireland and features a young Irish monk as the protagonist, here are some of my favorite Irish-focused quotes…
This Sunday is Saint Patrick’s Day, one of my all-time favorite holidays! In honor of the great Irish saint, I’m re-posting an updated article from last year about Stephen R. Lawhead’s Patrick: Son of Ireland. I had little appreciation for the story of Saint Patrick until I began the research for Enoch’s Device. That novel begins in…
Season 3 of HBO’s Game of Thrones premiers on March 31st, so it’s about time for another review of a book from George R.R. Martin’s epic series A Song of Ice and Fire. As I’ve mentioned before, I started reading A Song of Ice and Fire shortly before the HBO series first premiered, so I arrived…
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 picked up this book a while back because I’m a huge Bernard Cornwell fan and have always been interested in Stonehenge. It was not my favorite Cornwell novel, but that’s probably because of its Bronze Age setting (I really prefer Cornwell’s books set in the Middle Ages). To be clear, however, Stonehenge did not…
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…