Presenting COLOSSUS: THE FOUR EMPERORS

Mar 5, 2013 | Books - Publishing - The Novel

Now Available! The second novel of the Colossus, a series exploring the fall of Jerusalem, the building of the Colosseum, and the rise of Christianity. This novel deals with the last days of the Emperor Nero and the tumultuous year that followed, known ever after as...

Colossus: Map of Rome

Feb 23, 2013 | Books - Publishing

Here's the map of the area around the Forum Romanum in Rome, around 66-69 AD. It covers many of the places mentioned in the course of the novel. For this map, we took an existing one in the public domain and overhauled it completely. The Fish Market and the...

Cover Art for THE FOUR EMPERORS

Feb 19, 2013 | Books - Publishing - The Novel - Writing

Cover art is a tricky business. It can make or break a book. And it's always dangerous for authors to have too much say in their covers. But, as with other Sordelet Ink books, I get final say. It was bad from the start. I walked into this art design thinking I...

A Community Loss

Feb 6, 2013 | Books

Last night the Historical Fiction community lost a great voice in Margaret Frazer. The author of two dozen historical mysteries, she was writing and promoting right up to the end.  I only knew her as Margaret, her pen name, not as Gail, in life, so I'll...