In the midst of writing a coming chapter of Four Shards, I realized that 31 BCE, the year of Antony and Cleopatra’s defeat at the Battle of Actium and thus the practical end of the rule of the Ptolemies (if not quite their physical end), was exactly 300 years after …
What a crazy bit of weather we just had in the Two Rivers! Tornado watches and warnings, oh my! The weatherfolk were going crazy with anxious excitement: low pressure! wind shear! look at that speeds! wow! let’s look at our exclusive super duper doppler again! now with more color! yowzers! …
Cadet Joseph C. Collins, an upstanding Chemistry major from New York who will join the Navy after graduation, wrote a research paper for me last spring as a freshman (or “knob,” as we call the poor folks hereabouts). This Chemistry major’s topic? Shakespeare’s Othello, by golly. Joseph is a terrific …
As most site readers are aware, the novel I’m in the midst of writing — the first one I think I’ll try to sell — is largely set during those stormy years in which the Roman Republic dissolved and the Roman Empire was established in its place. As the one-line …
Last night, in the Riverview Room here at The Citadel, James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (known to readers by many names, including Robert Jordan) was posthumously inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. As I told many of the other attendees of the induction ceremony, I would have been happy …
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