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.
The monastic way of life, a life of religious piety entirely devoted to God, had longed favored the Benedictine form of monasticism in medieval Europe up until the middle of the eleventh century. At some point during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, various forms of monastic orders began to spring… Read More »Monastic Communities in the Middle Ages
I’m currently in the process of typing out and editing a new short story. It’s another medieval historical fiction piece set in medieval England. It centers around a cathedral and the theft of a golden cross and the defacing of a saint’s effigy … and murder. After I finish typing… Read More »New Short Story in Progress
On this date, October 6th, in medieval history: 877 – Death of Charles “the Bald,” king of the West Frankish Kingdom 891 – Formosus elected as Pope 1101 – Death of St. Bruno, confessor, ecclesiastical writer, and founder of the Carthusian Order
The Crusades Encyclopedia has a nice collection of medieval primary source texts dating back to the time of the Crusades. Such texts include letters and manuscripts, such as: letter of Alexius I Comnenus, the Siege of Tyre according to Ibn Al Qalanisi, the Franks’ capture of Antioch, the Franks’ conquest… Read More »Medieval History: The Crusades Encyclopedia
On this date, October 1st, in medieval history: 1207 – Birth of Henry III, King of England 1273 – Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned Holy Roman Emperor
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place on September 25th, 1066, between Harold Godwinson (Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England) and his brother Tostig, who had allied himself with Harald Sigurdsson (“Hardrada”), the King of Norway. This battle proceeded the famous Battle of Hastings between Duke William of… Read More »Today in Medieval History: The Battle of Stamford Bridge
On this date, September 24th, in medieval history: 768 – Death of Pepin II (“The Short”), father of Charlemagne 787 – Second Council of Nicea reconvenes, after being interrupted earlier (in August) by soldiers still loyal to the memory of Emperor Constantine V 1143 – Death of Pope Innocent II… Read More »Medieval Timeline: Today in Medieval History
The Runes of the Earth Featured Artist: Michael Whelan Since 1980, Michael Whelan has been one of the world’s premier fantasy and science fiction artists. He is currently working full time on his fine art paintings, but in the past three decades he has created more than 350 book and… Read More »Fantasy Art
WEbook is an online book publishing company that fosters an environment for writers, editors, reviewers, artists, and readers to come together to meet, write and collaborate on works of fiction and non-fiction, short stories, essays, and more. WEbook is a place for creative writing groups, aspiring novelists, and readers who… Read More »WEbook