Thomas R. Yarborough's A Shau Valor takes you to the action that brought individuals recognition with wards of Congressional Medals of...

  Before I get to my review of Tim Powers' Declare , I must report on the weekend doings. Comedienne got baptized on Saturday and asked ...

 It's a fun fact with a book review:  December 24, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France and victor of the Battle of Marengo,...

I finished reading Fred Saberhagen's Ardneh's Sword a few days ago. As with the earlier work in the series, Empire of the East , I ...

  Check it out. Accidental Pirates is number 1 in Teen and Young Adult Pirate Action & Adventure  Now that I've got that out of my s...

  Empire of the East , by Fred Saberhagen, contains the first three books in the four-book series - which explains why the book is so long. ...

   I picked up Fred Saberhagen's Merlin's Bones to read another take on the Arthur legend. This story was certainly unlike any othe...

 David Larson's One Crowded Hour: The Little Bighorn weighs in at over 400 and 60 some pages, so it's not a light read. For those o...

  I finally did it. I submitted a manuscript for a contest. If all goes well, I'll still be ecstatic about the publication in November o...

  I finished reading this book, Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson. I can't think of another book by the late Anderson that ...

This week I finished reading Louis L'Amour's The Haunted Mesa for the first time. It's a tale set in the Navajo Mountain area--...

 Let's return to the Omnibus bill of 1850. Stephen Douglas succeeded where Daniel Webster had failed and brought the provisions through ...

 It's a tragic tale of youthful exuberance and avarice tainted by overconfidence unburdened with the requisite competence. It was the be...

   Les Freres Corses finally completed the level--I forget the number, but it was the one with the dragons and glitches. Unfortunately, the...

  Having finished Truth in Flames , book 5 in the Tomahawks and Dragon Fire Series, I'm doing research for book 6 in the series. This bo...

  It wasn't 1814, but I took a little trip along with my wife down the mighty freeway. We didn't take bacon and we didn't take b...

  I spent part of yesterday extinguishing holiday cheer. The prevailing mood was frigid. With the landscape cloaked in icy white, and the te...