The Alternation of Rome

Rome fascinates us, bewitches us even in the high tech 21st century. It stretched for over 1229 years, it reached the heights (occasionally depths) of military achievement, produced the social, cultural and legal framework for the entire Western world, gave us its engineering genius and left us a richness in architecture, power politics, literature and […]

The Wonder of Rome

Coming soon! The Wonder of Rome blog hop

Over the weekend of 15-19 August, you will be able to visit eighteen sites displaying the wonder of Rome and trying to solve the mystery of why we are so attracted to a society that disappeared over 1600 years ago.

Or did it?

Come back here […]

Vote for INCEPTIO!

INCEPTIO is shortlisted for the Orangeberry Hall of Fame Best Thriller category. The poll is running through August, but it would be great if you could vote now to get it in the front runners.

Here’s the voting link: http://orangeberrybooktours.com/expo/2013/07/31/hall-of-fame-best-thriller/

And here’s the general Hall of Fame page

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RNA Conference - Part Deux

Due to total camera fail, I didn’t have many photos to show you when I wrote my first post. Hurrah for friends! Liz Harris (The Road Back) has emailed some over.

Freda Lightfoot, Denise Barnes and me

Me with Liesel Schwarz. Two alternate history writers having alternated their books…

 

 

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Roman doesn't mean one thing

Traditionally, ancient Rome was founded in 753 BC. It grew into one of the largest empires in the ancient world with roughly 20% of the world’s population and an area of 6.5 million square kilometres at its height.

Plagued by internal instability and attacked by various migrating peoples, the western part of the empire broke […]