To The Shores Of Tripoli… The Birth Of The US Marines
The fledgling US Navy and Marines play a supporting role in my new novel, Captive Of The Corsairs, which is released on July 21 by Dragonblade Publishing.
The Rocky Career Of William Bentinck
Occasionally real life figures make an entrance in my historical romances. To me it seems an additional way to place my fictional characters in the living world of their time.
Counter Cultural
Copyright is the protection afforded by the creator of an original work. It doesn’t extend to the people who created the tools for that expression.
St Valentine and the Ides of February
Who is Saint Valentine? His name is now a byword for romance and all things heart and flowers on February 14, but there is so much more to this man than just romance.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen…
Today, rhetoric gets a bad rap. Rhetoric has come to mean empty words and insincerity, but it wasn’t always this way.
Tuesday Book Club: Caroline Warfield’s The Reluctant Wife
A Tuesday Book Club bonus! Another of the remarkable Bluestocking Belle authors, Caroline Warfield.
Tuesday Book Club: Shehanne Moore’s The Writer And The Rake
Shehanne Moore who writes big fantasy worlds with unconventional characters and the most entertaining dialogue I’ve ever seen.
Letting Latin Live!
The Roman empire might have long gone, but its legacy remains strong even to this day. Did you know that sixty percent of the English language comes from Latin?