Bartleby, DailyLit and Wikibooks

The following are literary Web sites I came across:
Bartleby
Bartleby is the preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. The site also offers an encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus.
DailyLit
DailyLit sends books in installments via e-mail or […]

The Winter Solstice

From National Geographic News:
Monday is the winter solstice and the first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s all due to Earth’s tilt, which ensures that the shortest day of every year falls around December 21.
But it’s not all about astronomy.
Since ancient times people have marked the winter solstice with countless cultural and religious […]

Letters of Note

In a departure from my normal routine of posts, a friend of mine sent me a link to this site, which I wanted to share. It’s not medieval and it’s not fantasy related, but it is writing and it is historical. Letters of Note is a site that gathers and sorts fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, […]

Follow Me on Twitter

I’ve needed to add this to my site for a while but have just now gotten around to it. You can follow me on Twitter at the following address: twitter.com/Steven_Till. I’ve also added a link in the right sidebar to my Twitter profile. Most of the time, my tweets relate to medieval history, historical fiction, […]

Talking Medieval with Dr. Richard Scott Nokes

I had dinner last night with Dr. Nokes, professor of medieval literature at Troy University. We had a pleasant time talking about all things medieval, writing, and other assorted topics. If you haven’t read his blog, Unlocked Wordhoard, check it out. He posts a lot of medieval-related subject matter. I find his Morning Medieval Miscellany […]

Updated Currently Reading

It’s been a few weeks, but I’ve updated my currently reading section. At the moment, I’m reading a couple of non-fiction medieval history books: The Warrior of God - Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney, and The Crucible of the Middle Ages by Geoffrey Barraclough (book 2 of the Story of the […]

New Site Design

I’ve spent the better part of the last couple of days switching over to a new site design. It’s now fully complete and functional. Let me know what you think.

Amazon Author Stores

A new corner of the Amazon bookstore, Amazon Author Stores offers customers a new way to browse and shop favorite authors, discover new books, and more. Each Author Store includes a bibliography, and can include a biography, author photo, and discussion board. Finding all the books associated with a particular author is much easier now.
More […]

New Evidence on the Origin of Stonehenge

This is another pre-medieval history post, but Stonehenge is a subject that fascinates me, and an architectural masterpiece that no doubt captured the medieval mind as it does the mind of man today.
This comes from the BBC News:
Archaeologists have pinpointed the construction of Stonehenge to 2300BC - a key step to discovering how and why […]

FullBooks.Com

FullBooks.Com is another site that provides the entire text of thousands of books online. A few days ago, I posted about ReadPrint.com, a similar site that offers novels and short stories and poetry. FullBooks.com has more than just fiction, and it’s catalog is huge. One thing I don’t like is you have to find the […]