The Roadhouse Report – April 2025
Buy Signed Hardcover → Buy for Kindle (US) Buy for Kindle (UK) Death of an Eye → Disappearance of a Scribe → Theft of an Idol → Two thousand years ago, on the delta of the River Nile, there is a city, founded…
The Roadhouse Report – March 2025
Buy Signed Hardcover → Buy for Kindle (US) Buy for Kindle (UK) Death of an Eye → Disappearance of a Scribe → Theft of an Idol → The fourth book in the Eye of Isis series, Abduction of a Slave, published in January. There…
#thiswritinglife
People always ask writers where we get our ideas. Usually I say “the idea fairy” and leave it at that. Ideas come from any and everywhere, something I read or a story I heard or a headline in the media. Once it was my father watching a Cessna on floats taking off from Lake Hood…
Well of course there’s an Isis4 mug.
I mean, have you met me? There is now a podcast of Saturday’s event, too. Click here to eavesdrop in. Abduction of a Slave, the fourth Eye of Isis novel, now on sale at a bookstore or etailer near you! The drums of war are sounding again across the Middle Sea as Julius Caesar plans…
that Tiffany box packaging
Saturday afternoon, toward the end of the launch event for Abduction of a Slave, I wanted to show off the lovely little gilt image on the spine of the book, so I unwrapped it and pointed it out. Here it is again, in closeup. It’s the head of Montu, the image on the cover. Montu…
Cleopatra, that living matryoshka doll
I was looking up a recipe for roast chicken with garlic and honey when an Internet rabbit hole opened up in front of me and down I fell, resurfacing many clicks later on a BBC story about silphium. Silphium is or was an herb, an aromatic like garlic, that back in the day grew in…
Rome and water
See you Saturday at the Poisoned Pen!And if you can’t come in person remember you can watch on Facebook Live or YouTube. They will ship your book right to you, because they are nice like that.*Order your signed first edition here.*Order your Kindle US edition here.*Order your Kindle UK edition here. Probably my favorite place…
Firesteels and other joys of writing history mysteries
Greg, my editor asked Would you be up for writing a short piece – say 500-ish words – on your research for the Eye of Isis books and ABDUCTION OF A SLAVE in particular? Would be great for the Sales teams and we could also use it in our newsletter closer to publication. (Please note,…
Read more Firesteels and other joys of writing history mysteries
Caesar was always anxious to grab as much loot and land as he could because he was constantly in arrears with his own troops.
Abduction of a Slave, the fourth Eye of Isis novel (see below for the first three plus buy links, natch) launches on the previous Saturday, January 25, at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. If you can’t attend in person you can watch on Facebook Live and YouTube, and you can preorder your signed first edition right…
An interactive map of the Roman World
Abduction of a Slave, the fourth Eye of Isis novel (see below for the first three plus buy links, natch) launches on the previous Saturday, January 25, at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore. If you can’t attend in person you can watch on Facebook Live and YouTube, and you can preorder your signed hardcover first edition…
