Defiance comes out in a month! To celebrate, I’m posting memes with quotes from the novel. I took a day … More
Tag: History
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
Tolkien Was a Genius
I recently finished Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire, by Marcus Rautman. While reading about military life, I came across … More
Pictures of the Great War
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 . . .
100 years ago today, a sickly young man with a mission wandered the streets of Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, a young … More
The 70th Anniversary of D-day
Seventy years ago today, American, British, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in the largest amphibious invasion … More
Things not to do if you’re an agent in a Nazi-occupied country
This past summer I read a nonfiction book about several British agents who went into France during WWII as part … More
A Post About Alexanders
This blog post revolves around two very different subjects that have come up for me this month. Their connection: the name … More
The 69th Anniversary of D-day
Last year I posted some pictures my sister took of the WWII memorial in Washington DC. Now that another anniversary … More
Sweeney Todd, Sherlock Holmes, and Stephen Ambrose
A friend of mine asked me about the name of one of my characters, Sherlock. He’s in Sworn Enemy, a … More
What’s in a Name? Part Two: Commander Courage and Other Names That Border on Perfection
I recently read an article about the first naval battle of Narvik, which took place in April 1940 between British … More