Pre-order Hardcover → Pre-order Kindle US → Pre-order Kindle UK → Another teeny excerpt… “How would you like to become a Harvey Girl, Miss Wright?” “I’m sure I wouldn’t like it at all, sir.” Launching from the Poisoned Pen Bookstore on February 28, 2026. Buy…
This is why I can’t read reference works in e. You can highlight in e, sure, and you can search, but searching is not the same as dogearing or sticky noting, and forget about scribbling marginal notations. So I’m railing against Adrian Goldsworthy again, this time because of this passage in Caesar: Probably in late 46…
Pre-order Hardcover → Pre-order Kindle US → Pre-order Kindle UK → A teensy excerpt… “Run, Georgie, you sumbitch! Run before I give you a new hole to drain out all a your bullshit!” The laughing man stopped laughing. “Run my ass, Johnny O’Leary, I’ll die before I run!” Launching from…
Impossible to absorb too much information when you’re writing about a time two millennia before your own. I hasten to add that I haven’t read all these books cover to cover, otherwise I would never have time to write any of my own. Often the most useful items in them are their maps and indexes,…
Pre-order Hardcover → Pre-order Kindle US → Pre-order Kindle UK → Crack! Bang! Boom! Dea gratia, the final edit of The Harvey Girl went to my editor this week. Right here and now allow me to declare my undying gratitude to copyeditor Liz and editor Greg for their help in making it…
Pre-order Hardcover → Almost there… Yesterday The Harvey Girl went to my beta reader, next week it goes to Head of Zeus, and on February 28, 2025 it falls into your hot little hands. I’ve got three books planned for the series (so far) and this first one is set in…
Cover reveal for The Harvey Girl! Ta dah! Here it is in all its blinding glory, courtesy of editor Greg Rees at Head of Zeus. We launch it at the Poisoned Pen on February 28, 2026. Click through the image above to pre-order your copy, or click here…
Buy Signed Hardcover → Buy for Kindle (US) Buy for Kindle (UK) Death of an Eye → Disappearance of a Scribe → Theft of an Idol → I’m just back from vacation, which included a cruise around the Tyrrhenian Sea, a place I…
[May 17, 2025] A panoramic shot of the beautiful little bay of Nora, a seaside community outside of Cagliari, Sardinia. The ancient Romans used it to get away from the city. Basically it’s the Hamptons, or Lake City in Seattle or Homer in Alaska. (photo RobR) There are towers on both headlands and all the…
[reposted from June 11, 2021] This is what my dining table looks like these days. I’m beginning the third novel in the Eye of Isis series, and I’ve written enough of Tetisheri’s story now to revise her calendar. Calendars are very important in series–when did she do what, where, and to whom? Writing a calendar…