A satisfyingly supernatural back story for the all-too-real final war of the Roman Republic. So ends the rather positive review that The Shards of Heaven has received in Kirkus Reviews, one of the foremost trade book review outlets. You can read the whole thing here. There are a lot of …
Checking on listings for the forthcoming The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook — just three weeks to release! — I stumbled upon the Amazon UK used book listing for one of my previous books, The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook: To be clear, I am really proud of the Brunanburh …
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, …
As you may have heard, I have a novel coming out on 10 November. But that’s not the only one of my books coming out this Fall… With the help of a remarkable team of contributors, the historian Kelly DeVries and I have spent much of the past year and …
