Salvete Romanophiles! Welcome back to The World of The Blood Road! If you missed Part V in the this blog series, in which we looked briefly at the history of Carthago Nova, you can read about it right HERE. Today, in Part VI, we’re going to be taking a look a region that has a […]
Salvete, Readers and Romanophiles! Welcome to The World of The Blood Road! In this nine-part series, we’re going to be taking a look at some of the history, people, and places that appear and provide the settings for this sixth book in the #1 best selling Eagles and Dragons historical fantasy series. If you’re a fan […]
Welcome back to The World of The Stolen Throne. In Part III, we looked the Arthurian sites on Bodmin Moor that inspired part of The Stolen Throne. If you missed it, you can read that HERE. In Part IV, we’re going to be taking a brief look at one of the major settings in The […]
Part I – Isca Dumnoniorum: A Brief look at Roman Exeter Salvete, readers and history-lovers! Welcome to The World of The Stolen Throne! In this five-part blog series, we’re going to be taking a look at the research that went into the latest Eagles and Dragons novel, The Stolen Throne. We will take you on […]
Welcome back to The World of The Dragon: Genesis. In our last post delving into he research for our latest historical fantasy novel, The Dragon: Genesis, we looked at the joint rule of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. If you missed it, you can read it HERE. In Part VI of this blog series, we’re […]
Part I – The Antonine Wall Welcome to Part I of this new blog series celebrating the release of the latest Eagles and Dragons series novel The Dragon: Genesis. In this blog series, we’ll be sharing the research that went into the novel with you, looking at the history, settings, themes, and historical personages that are related […]
Hello History-Lovers! This week on the blog we’ve got a special post about some amazing women from ancient and medieval history. As has often been the case in history books and classes, the focus of historical personages has been male-oriented. Men declared most wars, made political decisions, ruled, and basically determined the future for numerous […]
Once it a while, I come across a site that strikes me as so magnificent and mysterious that I wonder why I didn’t know about it before, why it’s not spoken of by everyone with an inclination to ancient history. If you’ve been reading my blogs you’ll know that I love to travel and have […]
What was it like to live on the very edge of the Roman Empire? When writing Killing the Hydra, this was something I asked myself many times. What was life like for soldiers, commanders, women, children, and locals under Roman rule? What was it like to be so isolated in a place that, for many, […]
In this fourth installment of The World of Killing the Hydra, we’re going to look at a group of warriors who also have ties to myth, and who, as a fighting force, became legendary in the Roman world. We are, of course, going to talk about the Sarmatians. In Killing the Hydra, Lucius Metellus Anguis finds […]