Sequel Title Fun – Part 1

Nov 21, 2007 | Books - Publishing - The Novel

There have been four front-runners for the title for the sequel to THE MASTER OF VERONA – though none of them are what I call the book privately. To me, MV will always be IL VELTRO, meaning both the greyhound and the bastard. Perfect, but unsaleable. The sequel...

Making New Friends

Nov 20, 2007 | Books - Publishing - Reviews

The signing at the Book Cellar was a lot of fun. Met a couple of really interesting authors, most notably Geoffrey Edwards, author of FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT. I started reading it last night and it grabbed me, despite being far from my usual time and place –...

I Couldn’t Wait…

Sep 19, 2007 | Books

…for December, so I ordered Colleen McCullough’s new Rome book ANTONY & CLEOPATRA from Amazon.uk. As usual, it’s been published there before it hits the stands here. Though a bit thinner than her previous forays into Roman history, it is an...

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...