Writing the Past

 Harvest symbols at Eleusis  The Autumn Equinox is here and there is a full, waxy moon glowing above Toronto. In the city it is a bi...

I quote Austin Powers. Yes, Austin ‘Danger’ Powers who is known to have said this occasionally when an erotic comment escaped some vixen’s l...

Today I wanted to draw your attention to something that many might not know about. In an e-mail newsletter I received from the Internationa...

Summer is now upon us and that means a plethora of outdoor events at historical sites around Europe and North America. The Ermine Street Gua...

No, this is not a new book but rather an ongoing concern for historical novelists and readers of the genre. I’ve just read an article in the...

It has been a while since I posted the first excerpt of CHILDREN OF APOLLO and so, as a few folks have asked for more, I am posting another...

Some time ago, in my entry entitled The Hundredth Book about Caesar? I talked about a member of our writers' group whose book is set du...