March Meme Madness, Week 1

Defiance comes out in a month! To celebrate, I’m posting memes with quotes from the novel. I took a day … More

A Personal Connection to WWI

When I started work on The Spider and the Sparrow, I began a ton of research about World War One. … More

I recently finished Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire, by Marcus Rautman. While reading about military life, I came across … More

I had a pleasant surprise while researching my latest novel, The Spider and the Sparrow. It turns out that a … More

100 years ago today, a sickly young man with a mission wandered the streets of Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, a young … More

Seventy years ago today, American, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest amphibious invasion … More

This past summer I read a nonfiction book about several British agents who went into France during WWII as part … More

This blog post revolves around two very different subjects that have come up for me this month. Their connection: the name … More

Last year I posted some pictures my sister took of the WWII memorial in Washington DC. Now that another anniversary … More

A friend of mine asked me about the name of one of my characters, Sherlock. He’s in Sworn Enemy, a … More

I recently read an article about the first naval battle of Narvik, which took place in April 1940 between British … More