My life has been pretty simple. I grew up in Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor's in Advertising. I have spent about the last ten years in web development. In 1998, a friend of mine and I started a web design company we ran for three or four years before deciding to close it due to the demands of school. Since then, I stayed in the web working with various companies in Alabama. I worked for a brief period with Southern Progress, namely with Southern Living magazine and Health magazine, in their web departments. While there, I also wrote for Southern Living magazine, Health.com., and the company's internal newsletter. I write as much as I can. For the last five years, I have been working on my first novel. I am on the third revision now and hope to be finished with this draft by the end of the year. I also write short fiction, though not as frequently as I used to due to the time I spend on the novel. My goal is to have my novel published in the next three years. Other interests include: History (particularly medieval and ancient civlizations), Reading, Foreign Language (I currently speak Spanish but plan to learn as many as I can), Landscape Photography, the outdoors, sports (especially college football), and Travel.
I didn’t get around to posting this over the weekend, but I wanted to go back to September 11 for a look at that day in history. One of the most well-known events (made popular by the movie Braveheart) was the Battle of Stirling Bridge. The Battle of Stirling Bridge… Read More »Today in Medieval History
World-ology is a site for interactive maps, timelines, and articles of world history. The interactive maps are especially interesting as they chart a region, period, or event in history along a specific timeline. As you change the dates on the timeline, the maps change correspondingly. Naturally, I find the Middle… Read More »World-ology
I came across this list of 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before They’re Thirty. Wanted to get your thoughts. What do you think of this list? How many of these have you actually read? What books, in your opinion, should have made the list that weren’t mentioned?
The latest version of my novel is complete. I finished it over the weekend. My next steps are to go back and edit chapters one and two, since I overhauled those the most in this latest revision. In fact Chapter 1 was an entirely new chapter I wrote from scratch,… Read More »Novel Update
Over at Medievalists.Net, the author has put together a list of “medievalists” who often post on Twitter about the Middle Ages. The list was helpful for me as I’m always looking for the latest news on the subject. Just wanted to pass it along to everyone else who had not… Read More »Tweeting the Middle Ages
A special thanks to William Short, author of Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques, for his time in graciously agreeing to answer a few questions: 1) How did you become interested in “Viking” history? I don’t know. My educational and professional background had a heavy emphasis on technical topics and was… Read More »Q&A with William Short, Author of Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques
My review of Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques has been published in the latest issue of The Heroic Age. The Heroic Age is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal, focusing on Northwestern Europe during the early medieval period (from the early 4th through 13th centuries). The journal’s mission is to foster… Read More »Review of Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques by William Short
Alt History is a start-up magazine dedicated to short works of historical fiction and alternate history. There are not a lot of vehicles available for writers of short stories in these genres, so it’s nice to see a new magazine covering these areas. Accepted stories will be published as an… Read More »Alt History Magazine
South of us Xinan lies under a sickle moon. Lanterns will soon be bright in the spring night. Laughter and music and rich wine poured. Far to the west where all roads end. Cold stars shine on white bones. Beside the stone shores of a lake. In the valley of… Read More »Review of Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay