This blog is moving to a new home! I've been totally silent over the last couple of months for a few reasons, one of which was that we...

Book research has its advantages when you're the author of The Athenian Mysteries.  I and my family have been in Greece, and it's be...

Music is a Greek word and comes directly from the nine Muses, daughters of Zeus who inspired men in the arts.  Mousike techne was the techn...

I wouldn't recommend putting this on your morning toast, but here is how to make honey of Trebizond . Plant an entire field of deadly ...

In classical times, it was illegal to die on the sacred isle of Delos.  It was also illegal to give birth there. Delos was the birthplace ...

Hyperborea will be known to you if you're a Conan the Barbarian fan.  What is less well known is that this fantasy land might have exis...

Thanks to Monty on twitter for pointing this out!  It goes rather well with Death Ex Machina, and talks about three of my characters. ...

This looked so nice, I couldn't resist ripping it off my editor's facebook stream. It's the Soho Press book stand at a recent c...

The American Library Association has a magazine and a web site where they post reviews of books. This review of Death Ex Machina just came...

If murder mysteries set in the ancient world are your thing, then the good news is Death Ex Machina went on the shelves today. I'm v...