Byzantine Heartbreak

Beware the Ides of March…But Why?

I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “Beware the Ides of March.”  You’re probably even aware that it’s to do with Julius Ceasar.  It is part of Shakespeare’s play, Julius Ceasar.  A witch foretells Ceasar’s death on the floor of the Senate in Rome, on the 15th of March, and tells him to “Beware the Ides […]

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Working Notes – February 28 – Another Leap Frog

A few weeks ago I was bellyaching about how I had produced books so fast that I had missed out on updating you on two books, between working note installments.  Poor me, life is a bitch, huh? Guess what?  Done it again.  Well, sort of.  🙂 Last working notes, I got to roll in ecstasy

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BYZANTINE HEARTBREAK is out (at last!)

I feel like I’ve been writing this book forever, but in actual fact, I started straight after I launched Lucifer’s Lover, which was …wow, only January 15, 2012. Considering Byzantine Heartbreak is a whopping 100,000 words, and 368 pages in the print version (the spine calculated out at .918″ thick!) that’s — actually, it’s shocking

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Working Notes – The Book That Wouldn’t Be Short

It’s only now I’ve recalled a pithy little line I included in the special features for The Royal Talisman: “I have also been accused of an inability to write anything short to save my life.” Good thing a hanging didn’t depend on the turn of that phrase.  Because I blithely included in the description for

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Working Notes – Byzantine Heartbreak is Underway. Yeah!

It’s been a weird week. For a start, it’s been very cold. Like, 35 degrees Celsius below zero cold. That’s negative 31 in Farenheit for all you Imperial-thinking people. I got Mukluks for Christmas — real authentic ones.  But even at -35, they let the cold in and my feet started to chill up.  I

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Working Notes – The Book You Missed and the One You Might Yet Miss

I don’t think I’ve ever hidden the fact that I write posts ahead of time and schedule them to appear here on the appointed day.  Most bloggers do this.   It’s a survival mechanism:  We’d all be in straight-jackets by week four if we had to manually post each and every post on the appointed day

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Working Notes – December 26, 2011

My best wishes to everyone who celebrated Christmas Day yesterday, and for everyone who got the day off from work, I hope you made the best of it. Of course, I’m writing this somewhere in the past, so I’m not sure yet if I made a very good day of it or not, but I

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