The World of Sincerity is a Goddess

Part I – Drama and Actors in Ancient Rome Salvete Readers and Romanophiles! Welcome to The World of Sincerity is a Goddess, our blog series about the research for the novel, Sincerity is a Goddess: A Dramatic and Romantic Comedy of Ancient Rome. In this first post, we’re going to be taking a brief look […]

The World of The Blood Road – Part VI – Pastoral Idyll: A Brief Look at Roman Etruria

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 […]

The World of The Blood Road

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 […]

The World of The Stolen Throne- Part IV – Seaside Fortress: The Mystery of Tintagel Castle

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 […]

The World of The Stolen Throne

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 […]

The World of The Dragon: Genesis – Part VI – The Antonine Plague: Pestilence and Pandemic in Ancient Rome

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 […]

The World of The Dragon: Genesis

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 […]

Seven Outstanding Women from the Ancient and Medieval World

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 […]

Peloponnesian Eyrie – The Temple of Apollo Epikourios

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 […]

The World of Killing the Hydra – Part V – Desert Legion: The Fortress of Lambaesis – Imagining Saharan Frontier Life

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, […]