As an academic, I’ve written a number of books before, and it is fascinating to me how very different the process is for a novel with a major publisher like Tor. To be ready for its 30 September 2015 release, for instance, my non-fiction book The Battle of Crécy: A …
As I talked about in discussing my research on the mapping of Alexandria, my coming novel is a historical fantasy. So in addition to all the stuff I made up, it also has a lot of stuff that’s absolutely true: including a wide cast of historical people. Some are well-known, …
I am pleased to announce that on Friday, 18 September, I’ll be in Raleigh, NC to make an appearance in support of The Shards of Heaven at the Discovery Show of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. At 11am I’ll be sitting on a panel entitled “People: From Medieval Times to …
It’s Tuesday, folks, which means it’s time for the latest installment of goodness related to The Shards of Heaven, my forthcoming novel from Tor Books. As you have probably heard, Shards is a historical fantasy: the story takes place within our historical past, but it incorporates certain fantasy elements (like …
It’s Tuesday, folks, which means it’s time for the latest installment of goodness related to The Shards of Heaven, my forthcoming novel from Tor Books. I’ll be keeping this week’s edition quite short, because I want to foreground the big news: The Shards of Heaven has a new release date! …
