Aug 15, 2016 | Blog hops tours & reblogs
PH Solomon is a frequent visitor of this blog, so it’s with great pleasure that I participate in his 4WillsPublishing blog tour. Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Uncertain what is real. Athson has seen things that aren’t there and suffered fits...
Aug 13, 2016 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Fun Historical Facts
Fantasy Tip from the Past: Poisons and the Bezoar Since July, my epic fantasy series, Pearseus, has had a new intro: the scene where the mysterious Whispers hand Styx the poison that will make her justice. Once again, the inspiration for this was taken from history,...
Aug 10, 2016 | Fun Historical Facts
In Kingston, a small village in rural Cambridgeshire, a stolid tenant farmer is wiping moist eyes. His three children had survived the 1507 outbreak of the ‘sweats;’ a sickness that could see you hale and hearty at lunchtime, and dead before supper. But by...
Aug 4, 2016 | Maps and Infographics
Steve Aedy, a content creator at FreshEssays.com, contacted me recently to let me know that their team has recently created an infographic called Reading Habits that Lead to Success. They’ve come up with the idea having read a lot of articles dedicated to habits...
Aug 1, 2016 | Fun Historical Facts, Random Musings
Six-year-old Onfim stifled a yawn. His teacher was droning on and on about Old Russian alphabet, but Onfim had had enough scrawling letters onto his birchbark notebook. His mind wandered to the really exciting things that Novgorod in 1220 AD had to offer: brave...
Jul 29, 2016 | My friends' Guest Posts, Writing
When it comes to making it as a writer, there are no hard and fast rules, it seems. For writers who have spent the better part of their lives receiving rejection letters, there’s always the J.K. Rowling story. For the die-hard traditionalists who say you need a...
Jul 26, 2016 | Fun Historical Facts, Random Musings
The year is 2099. A group of people is preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve aboard the brand spaceship, Pearseus. Instead, they end up castaways on a remote planet. Three hundred years later, most of the original technology has disappeared. People have...
Jul 22, 2016 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Writing
This guest post by author Lincoln Cole is part of a blog tour sponsored by 4Wills Publishing. Writing Tips Tip #1 – Just write. Don’t be afraid to put the words on paper and try new things. Sure, a lot of it won’t work, but some of it will. That first draft can be a...
