“You’re sure we’ve got them all?” Lucilla asked, perched on the edge of her father’s seat in the Imperial box, gazing down at the colosseum floor.
The sandy stage for the glor...
2023-04-25 23:40:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as the council of war had ended, training had begun in earnest. By week’s end, the legions had been divided into the northern and southern armies, each with a unique focus. The southern f...
2023-04-23 18:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“The princess came back from Factorium today,” Medb said as she readied their room for the evening.
“I don’t believe the Romans, or I guess Britannians, ...
2023-04-20 18:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostOver the last few months, I've been working on trying to improve my writing and working with a new editor (as opposed to just proofreaders and beta-readers), since I've always felt was sometimes bo...
2023-04-20 05:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“Did any of you actually see this happen, or is it just gossip?” Decius asked, causing the other men to look back and forth at each other.
“No. We agreed t...
2023-04-18 16:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostInsula Manavia
Velius wiped the ocean spray off his face and looked at Bomilcar, who stood slightly ahead of him, staring off the front of the galley, resisting the urge to f...
2023-04-16 07:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“This is a terrible idea,” Ky said for the thirtieth time.
“Mmm-hmmm,” Lucilla mumbled quietly.
Surrounded by a half dozen people on the raised pla...
2023-04-13 13:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“We can’t get to the gunpowder,” one of the men said.
Decius frowned. Caesius’s messages had been getting more and more frantic, demanding they get him s...
2023-04-11 17:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum Docks
“Join the Praetorians, they said,” Mettius Volusa Carantus griped, as water poured off his helmet. “See the Empire, they said. The only part of the Empire ...
2023-04-10 03:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostFactorium
“I’m looking at this thing, and I’ve gone over every part you had me make, but I’m still not sure what this is actually going to do or how it’s going to c...
2023-04-06 04:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostCoast, Southern Britain
The galleys cut across the water, slamming into the beach hard, driving up onto the sand. As soon as the boats stopped, men in heavy armor began pilin...
2023-04-03 14:39:11 +0000 UTC View PostEmain Macha, Ériu
“How could you let her live,” Conchobar bellowed, looking from his elevated throne at Llassar.
“Because having her killed would have meant gene...
2023-03-31 02:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostImperial Senate, Devnum
“They’re pirates,” Rotri, one of the Caledonian senators said, his face red, his finger jutting out at the five newly arrived Ulaid senators. 2023-03-28 00:29:57 +0000 UTC View Post
As he had every day, the Consul left the command tent after the three men finished going over more options and headed out to tour of the legion camps below, leaving the details of their decisions t...
2023-03-24 16:44:25 +0000 UTC View PostI've gotten a bunch of messages asking me about the next Country Roads book, so I thought I'd do a quick update. It's going to be called Elegy and I just hit the mid point of the story in the...
2023-03-24 06:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostLegion Camp, North of Glevum
He had to hand it to Velius, Ky thought as he stepped out of his tent and looked west, the man could pick locations. Ky looked over the cliffs to...
2023-03-21 02:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
“The line must follow a two-degree slope, Lucilla,” Sophus said.
Sophus had explained to her multiple times that it didn’t feel emotions or have f...
2023-03-17 16:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe story still has a long way to go before it's finished, but I got way ahead of myself, and have the cover very early this time.
2023-03-14 22:56:40 +0000 UTC
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“Hortensius tells me the vats and buildings to contain them should be done in a week’s time,” Sorantius said. “As you expected, the first run of the vats was not as water-tight as you wante...
2023-03-14 02:48:56 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum Docks
Valdar looked up at the hulking ship and marveled. Part of him wondered how anything so ponderous could ever make it in the choppy waters of the western ocean, w...
2023-03-10 18:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next week men poured into the capital, more than had migrated even during the original alliance with the Caledonians. Some were previous citizens of the Ulaid or other kingdoms that had fo...
2023-03-07 23:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostDevnum
Ky looked down the long table, surrounded by all of the military commanders currently on Britannia, as well as Talogren, who had decided to remain for several weeks fo...
2023-03-04 15:43:03 +0000 UTC View PostEmain Macha, Ériu
Llassar sat on the horse he’d borrowed from the king’s stables and watched the king's son ride in tight circles around a course laid out in the fields ...
2023-03-01 18:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe week following Christmas was a whirlwind as we got ready to leave for New York on Friday. It seemed like everyone I knew, or was at least friends with, was going. Besides me and the band, Hanna...
2023-02-26 15:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMonday I had just gotten back from school when Kat made her triumphant return with Hanna and her mother in tow, carrying more bags than I remember them leaving with.
“How’d it go?” I as...
2023-02-26 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI let Vinney check on the guys on the ground and stepped back, partially ’cause they might try something again, and partially because when the sheriff arrived, I didn’t think I should be anywhe...
2023-02-26 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy schedule for the next several weeks became packed, as we put in as many practices as we could between my school schedule and performances at the Blue Ridge. I even canceled most of my training w...
2023-02-25 15:10:48 +0000 UTC View PostMy night with Sydney had been mind-blowing. It had also been funny, awkward, confusing, and a whole host of other adjectives, but they all came together into something I’d never forget. We’d fu...
2023-02-24 15:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it was great spending all of Thanksgiving with Hanna, her mother, and Kat, it was also kind of a bummer. It was the first major holiday I’d spent without Mom, and I really missed her. I kne...
2023-02-24 05:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostI was practically flying as I drove home from the courthouse. I was finally free. I couldn’t believe it. Even Dad’s last attempt to attack me in the courtroom didn’t throw off my good mood. I...
2023-02-23 06:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post