Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY AT THE RACES!
Nellie Bly at the Races The New York World/July 8, 1894 The Women Enthusiasts Who Are Regular Visitors at the Big Tracks Every Day of the Season. How They Make Bets—Backing Horses on a System and as Well Posted on Jockeys and Records as Any of the Men—Scenes in the...
Romeo & Juliet: The Death Of Benvolio
If you wanted to throw a wrench into my theory about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, one needs only point out that in the earliest version, Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. Benvolio does....
Romeo & Juliet – I Always Hated Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, and how the Capulet-Montague feud inspired a series of historical novels I always hated Shakespeare. They made me read him. In junior high, it was JULIUS CAESAR, and I hated it. In high school, it was ROMEO & JULIET, which...
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The Big News
When I announced the EVE OF IDES reading, I said it would be the first of many pieces of news. As promised, here we go! On April 23, Amazon Kindle will publish five (5!) of my novels, along with three short stories and several essays. I'll give a more detailed...
EVE OF IDES on the eve of Ides!
The first of many, many exciting announcements: MARCH 14th at 7pm at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey!
St. Nicholas
shanghai low theatricals and the seanachai theatre company are proud to host the sep production of a play by the olivier award-winning author of the seafarer: at chicago's irish american heritage centerfor advance tickets...
Holiday, Holy Day
As I return to my desk after the long holiday weekend, I'm thinking of holidays - specifically, about a very significant one. Good Friday, 1327. On that day, an hour after dawn, Francesco Petrarcha first laid eyes on his Laura, sparking a poetic love that would...
GUEST POST – No Sweat Shakespeare
My friends over at nosweatshakespeare and I are trading posts today. Read Warren's truly fantastic look at the life of a Shakespearean actor back when these plays were hot off the quill, then head over there to read my nonsensical ramblings about OTHELLO....
SINCERITY – A Halloween Short Story
SincerityA Halloween ShortBy David Blixt “So. You finally show up.” It was a tick past the witching hour, and the thing had risen from the field, blinking and staring about in confusion. In its powerful, vibrating basso...
Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare
I don't have much time for this, but with the movie opening today I feel the need to dive in to the ANONYMOUS business, if briefly. Let me say at the outset that I have enjoyed Roland Emmerich's early films, though I haven't seen any of his recent ones. And there are...
One Down
One down. Just finished the final edits to VOICE OF THE FALCONER. It was fun going back to a novel I wrote five years ago and see how my writing style has changed. I managed to take out 11,000 words, bringing the manuscript down to 174,000 (by comparison, THE MASTER...
Quick update
On page 500 of the final edits to VOICE OF THE FALCONER. 200 to go! (it won't be that long when published, this is just my copy for mark-ups). Next up, finish the edits to the first Jewish/Roman war novel (still looking for the perfect title), then write the four...
Twitter!
Until now I've only ever used Twitter to post funny things my kids have said. But now that 2012 looks like the year of Blixt Books, I've started a new Twitter account (funny how that's twice I've typed Twister instead. Shows where my mind's at)....
