Jun 27, 2012 | Books - Publishing - Shakespeare - The Novel
Today on Amazon I'm giving away FREE copies of The Master Of Verona! Tell your friends! It's still my best-selling book (though HMW is catching up fast!), and that start to the Star-Cross'd series – and for this one day only, it is completely FREE!...
May 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
The only trouble with the regular Kindle is that the maps can be rather small. So I thought I'd share them here. These were drawn by my mother, Jill Blixt, and she did an incredible job. They're based on the maps in A.M. Allen's THE HISTORY OFVERONA. First...
May 4, 2012 | Books - Shakespeare - Theatre
Longtime readers of this blog will certainly recognize the centerpiece of this collection – my take on the origin of the Capulet-Montague feud which led to the writing of THE MASTER OF VERONA. But I've gone much further in this collection of essays,...
Apr 30, 2012 | Books - Shakespeare - The Novel
Some stories are part of a grand narrative. Some are small, insular, intimate. But no less deserving to be told. Collected here are three short stories from the world outside Verona's walls – Vicenza, Padua, and Avignon. These pieces of Blixt's...
Apr 27, 2012 | Shakespeare - The Novel
While the brilliant and wily Cesco is schooled in his new duties at the hand of a hard master, Pietro Alaghieri travels to Avignon, current seat of the Papacy, to fight his excommunication and plead for Cesco's legitimacy. But an old foe has been waiting for this...
