As can be seen from the progress meters at left, one of my current on-the-burner projects is a novel about Caesarion, the child of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. The opening prologue of this novel takes place at Caesar’s “country” villa across the Tiber from Rome, where Caesarion and his mother …
Spent part of the afternoon in my office at work, polishing up my weapons. (The cadets are about to return to campus, you know.) Anyway, I was in the midst of working on my sword — a beautiful battle-ready replica of the supposed sword of the Black Prince — when …
I just moved in — I haven’t even unpacked all the boxes around here yet — and already I see all manner of folks coming ’round for a visit! Welcome! It ain’t gonna be all-Chaucer all-the-time around here (though you can expect at least a few more books to be …