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September 2024

2024 Booker Prize: Longlist
A Bumper Crop of Historical Fiction
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Historical Reading and Writing Resource
Today I alert you to a new resource for readers and writers of history—both fiction and non.
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August 2024

What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Greetings!
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The Weight of Things
Objects embody stories.
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July 2024

We Must Have Maps!
I've been super excited in the last few weeks (read: distracted).
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June 2024

Those Pesky Stuarts
The last two novels I read had an unplanned historical continuity.
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Cruise to Nowhere
About that...
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Progress in Spite of Myself
In my current general dysfunction, one thing I have managed to do in the last three weeks is a fast read of my full manuscript—all 789 printed pages of…
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May 2024

Milestones
To my newly subscribed readers, you’re not in the wrong place.
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March 2024

Time Out
And accidental ketosis
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Work in Progress - Alex at Target Practice
Today’s offering is a peek at fourteen-year-old Alex three weeks into the 635 AD siege of Damascus.
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