It was a real honour to be asked by Anna Richenda, recently, if I would review her new self-published novel, The Saint and the Fasting Girl. As a fan of HistoryFish.net her expansive website devoted to medieval religious topics, I had been reading progress reports in her blog about the book’s publication for some time. …
A couple of weeks ago, I had my trial by fire. I attended a meeting of my erstwhile writers’ group and read a passage from my novel. I had taken a few weeks off work to make some headway on the novel and I had about 40 pages of material from which to choose a …
Back in January, I wrote a blog post about the medieval era in general and the fact that it suffers as a time overshadowed by the Renaissance, a period of flowering humanism and artistic and cultural progress. I have nothing against the Renaissance, folks, but I am regularly surprised and delighted that the Middle Ages …
I was at a meditation workshop this past weekend, and found it a gold mine of inspiration for my writing. We did many hours of meditating, and as the noise/clutter of my mind died down into the great quiet, there were these large nuggets of ideas, sitting there. For the first time, I saw the …
Everywhere I look, these days, I notice someone reading Ken Follett’s World Without End. Yesterday, I saw someone wading through it on the bus to work; later, someone else reading it in Starbucks. In December, I’d see several open copies each day on the beach in Cabo San Lucas. World Without End has been out …
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