The Greyhound has Landed

Jun 28, 2007 | Books - Publishing - The Novel

This morning FedEx arrived with a package from my editor. It contained the finished, physical hardcover edition of THE MASTER OF VERONA. There will be plenty of time to pour through the book and find the type-setting infelicities and lost grace-notes – they will...

Dante Biography

Jun 19, 2007 | Books

Monday being the Actor Day Of Rest, I got to relax and hang out in Ann Arbor. Did some work on various writing projects, some related to the Mercutio series (as this is rapidly becoming known – Star-Cross’d was my first choice, but it sounds too much like...

Librarything.com

Jun 8, 2007 | Books

I’ve been a member of www.librarything.com for awhile, but I hadn’t taken the time to add many books. In a fit of, I don’t know, compulsive laziness, I’ve listed a small portion of my home library – just over two hundred books. I know, it...

Titles revisited

May 14, 2007 | Books - Cut Scenes - Publishing

Everyone is asking about the title to Book 2. I don’t have a good answer. I did, then something changed and events that were going to happen in Book 2 were moved to Book 3, which I’m working on right now (when not adapting classic crime fiction for the...

That Blasted Idiom

May 10, 2007 | Books - Reviews - Shakespeare

I was contacted by a reviewer this past weekend. She quite liked MV, confessing to pulling an all-nighter to finish it. Which is very cheering, despite my bizarre yet compelling need to apologize for keeping her awake. She also had some questions. A couple were easy...

Publisher’s Weekly Review

Apr 16, 2007 | Books - Publishing - Reviews - The Novel

The Master of Verona David Blixt. St. Martin’s, $27.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-312-36144-0Upon the death of his elder brother in 1314, Pietro Alaghieri, 17, is thrust headlong into the post of scion to his father, the famous poet Dante, in this rollicking historical...