I like Tor.com’s explanation best for the giant styrofoam head found floating in the Hudson River last week: This past Thursday a giant styrofoam head turned up in the Hudson River. Our suspicion is that it fell through from an alternate 2013 timeline where the Roman Empire never fell. My second favorite explanation: it fell […]
Read MoreAmWriting: Research is writing, too!
It helps that I love all things ancient Rome; I’ve spent almost as much time researching my MUSES OF ROMA series as I have writing it. From books to web sites to pod casts to multiple viewings of the HBO series Rome (both seasons), I’ve covered a lot. Obviously I’ve barely scratched the surface of […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Rome
The Eternal City of Rome is 2,766 years old as of 4/21/13…if you go by the day Romulus and Remus, who were conceived by the war god Mars and a Vestal Virgin, raised the city’s first walls.
Read MoreAmWriting: Three goals for my new blog series
My goal is to write a post each week about my experiences writing my current work-in-progress, the third book in my MUSES OF ROMA sci-fi/alt-history epic. Â I’m going to call this series “AmWriting,” after the popular Twitter hashtag of the same name. What do I hope to accomplish with these posts? Well… Goal #1: I […]
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