Colossus – The Historical Note

Oct 16, 2012 | History - The Novel

This is something I weighed including in the first Colossus novel. I think it will appear in the third, outside of the text. It's an historical note to set the scene for the whole arc of the series. I wrote it at the urging of my agent, who saw it as necessary...

Love is Love

Sep 7, 2012 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel - Theatre

Here's a guest piece I wrote for Bilerico.com that ran last Sunday.  I’m getting some lovely praise for my new novel, HER MAJESTY’S WILL. I wrote it as a tongue-in-cheek spy story starring Will Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe, and it seems to be received...

THE FOUR EMPERORS – Prologue

Jun 29, 2012 | The Novel

Prologue Roma, Italia 13 October, 64 AD   Made of Cyclopean stones, the Tullianum was a prison without bars. There was nothing to prevent the prisoner from walking out into the open air, yet Symeon did not escape. It was a perverse honor to be held there, where...

A Different Kind Of Gift

Jun 28, 2012 | The Novel

Yesterday I offered up THE MASTER OF VERONA for free on Kindle, and was astonished by the eager enthusiasm of Kindle readers, who snapped up 5,579 copies. Thank you all. The notion of that many new readers – more in a day than I could have dreamed – is...

Review Round-Up

Jun 23, 2012 | Books - Reviews - The Novel

Well well well. Haven't done one of these in awhile! Of course, there are now more and more reviews on Amazon and Goodreads and Librarything to be explored. But for those coming from blogs all across the interwebs, it's nice to have a place where one can...