Camp Update: Halfway!
So far, April has not been a good month for me. Right at the end of March, my husband and I both came down with an awful flu that laid us out for a week. Even once we felt better, …
Book Review: Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years War
If y’all are getting sick of endless reviews of military histories, I do apologize, though I have no plans to stop in the foreseeable future. I just like this kind of stuff. That being said, this book, a rather academic …
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Badass of the Month: Winged Hussars
This is sort of a reblog. I did a bunch of research-heavy posts back in the days before anyone was reading this blog. Also, I’ve learned a lot since then. Polish hussars were the super-badass heavy cavalry of the early modern period, which is …
Rise of the Storm Sneak Peek: Chapter One
I just saw that my follower count on this blog exceeded 100! I am very excited. So, to celebrate, I will post the first chapter of my nearly-completed historical fantasy: Rise of the Storm. Runewald, Terragand Kendryk The street was …
Campers Unite!
The two sides of my brain discussed it thoroughly and have agreed that Camp NaNoWriMo is a must for me this April. There is no question I get the most writing done during NaNoWriMo events and I really need to …
Book Review- Blenheim: Battle for Europe by Charles Spencer
After so thoroughly enjoying Charles Spencer’s Prince Rupert biography, I picked this up, even though I really shouldn’t have. At this point, I don’t need to be dragged into the early 18th century, as much fun as it is. To be …
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State of the Book (s)
If it looks like I’ve been AWOL from this blog (except for weekends), I have. And I have excuses! Lots of ’em, as usual. First of all, I finished my book! At least, I did a thorough copyedit and shipped …
Postcrastination and a Pep Talk to Myself
I haven’t done much on this blog because I am editing like a maniac. Right now I feel like a tiny snowplow pushing the results of the whole East Coast Storm in front of me. I did hit the quarter …
Reading Roundup 2014
2014 was a strange year for me when it came to reading. For the past several years, since acquiring an e-reader- first a Nook and then a Kindle- I read nearly full-time. I even started a blog called 200 Books …
2014 All Wrapped Up
It’s a good thing I keep a journal. In looking back on the year, it felt like I’d done nothing but write fiction. That was not altogether true. While 2014 was by far my most productive fiction-writing year yet, I …