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...

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...

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...

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...