Historical Fiction and Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Book Reviews and ruminations on life
30
Jan
Playing games for Charity. This weekend I am running a sponsored 24 hour gaming marathon. This is in aid of Project 3580. This is a charity which members of my daughter (Helen)’s school are supporting this year. You may be aware that the country of Sierra Leone was affected by a terrible civil war and […]
Tags: charity, project 3850
28
Jan
Last weekend – Sunday 26th January was the 40th anniversary of the launch of a game that would change the world. On 26th January 1974 Gary Gygax launched the original set of rules for Dungeons and Dragons. It was not the first roleplaying game but it was going to have the greatest impact on the […]
Tags: Dungeons and Dragons
27
Jan
Today I’m pleased to be taking part in a blog chain. A blog chain is simply a blog post written on a set topic, at the end of which you nominate a given number of bloggers to do the same. So we have a linked set of blogs popping up at intervals covering the same […]
Tags: writing
11
Jan
One of the perhaps lesser known cathedrals in England is the one at Lichfield. Nowadays Lichfield is an attractive but small city dwarfed by the near by West Midlands conurbation of Birmingham-Coventry-Wolverhampton-Black Country. Yet in the early to mid Saxon period it was one of the more important cities. Indeed it was the see of […]
Tags: lichfield, lichfield cathedral
9
Jan
On Wednesday 8th January I signed off the proof of my latest book ‘The Catacombs of Vanaheim.’ All books have their own story and route to publication and every author will have their own approach. I thought it might be of interest to talk about how The Catacombs of Vanaheim got into print. Catacombs is actually the second in […]
Tags: self publishing
6
Jan
Well its the first Monday of January so I thought I would start a series of articles I am calling Monday Myths. To begin with I am looking mainly at the Norse-Germanic Myths of Northern Europe. Since its a beginning lets start WITH a beginning. According the legends of the Norse, Germanic Tribes and Anglo-Saxons […]
Tags: Anglo_saxons, Monday Myths, Nine Worlds
1
Jan
So we begin 2014. I have been self publishing my own novels for 4 years now. When I started out the whole world of e-book self publishing and Indie Publishing of paperbacks had not long begun to enter the phase we find ourselves in. Kindle came to the UK at the end of 2010. Smashwords […]