Judson Roberts, whose work I have blurbed enthusiastically, has released the following video for the third book in his wonderful Strongbow Saga: Watch it. Enjoy it. Pass it on. Then, if you’re interested in Vikings, go read his books.
In my research yesterday, I found a really spiffy map of ancient Alexandria — spiffy, that is, except for being wildly inaccurate about the all-important Great Harbor. This isn’t the mapmaker’s fault. Alexandria’s coastline is radically different now as a result of seismic activity, erosion, and human manipulation. Antirrhodos, for …
I’m still not feeling great, so I wasn’t able to manage the kind of sustained concentration needed to do much writing today. Instead, I spent the greater part of the day trying doing research. In particular, I’m trying to build as complete a picture as I can of Cleopatra’s Alexandria. …
Will I ever grow up? Will I ever see a time when, on getting sick, I won’t long for my mother to tuck the extra pillow under my head, to bring me a cup full of orange juice and a flexi-straw, to soothe me out of a coughing fit by …
It seems I’ve acquired some nasty contagion from the petri dish that is The Citadel. Swollen lymph nodes, sore throat, stuffed head … blech. It was a miracle my voice held out through yesterday (teaching and meetings from 9:30 am to 9:45 pm), but it did. Blech.