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Jul 20, 2007 | Shakespeare - The Novel

I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was Julius Caesar. In high school, first it was Romeo & Juliet, which was cool only because we wasted a week watching the movie – the Zefferelli, not the DeCaprio version. The next year it was...

Important Infelicity

Jul 6, 2007 | The Novel

This is an incredibly minor flaw in the typesetting, one that I thought I had dealt with, but that didn’t make the transfer from my notes to the actual physical book. In the Dramatis Personae, on the page listing the Capulletti family, there is a diamond beside...

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...

Blatant Plug

Jun 26, 2007 | The Novel

Mmm. I seem to be getting a lot of hits based on my "Tomorrow" post. Thanks to shakespearegeek.com and shakespeareteacher.com for pointing people my way. And stay tuned for tomorrow’s post (sadly, not another "Tomorrow" post) for some more...

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...

Flap Copy

Apr 14, 2007 | Books - Publishing - Shakespeare - The Novel

This is the text that will appear on the dust-jacket flap. I am pleased to say I had a hand in crafting it – all those years hanging around my parents’ ad agency must have rubbed off a bit.         Romeo and Juliet is the greatest...