The blogosphere is the fastest means of information transmission around, I swear. My review of Sara Donati's Queen of Swords is posted ...

Authors in the biblioblogosphere (I confess I like that word) regularly go online to vent about bad reviews. You don't hear too much fro...

Two literary thrillers about murder and psychiatry in turn-of-the-century New York City... two similar covers. (Look at the central figure.)...

Yes, I am still alive - mostly. Hard to believe it's been a week since I wrote anything here. Things have been so incredibly busy at wor...

It's around 3pm, the crowds have started to disperse (such as they were, on this very slow Saturday of Labor Day weekend), and I've ...

A quick note - the HNS conference board of directors will be accepting proposals for talks/workshops/panels/etc for the 2007 conference thro...

[Preface: I wrote this essay for the November 2004 issue of the Historical Novels Review . Since the fall semester has just begun at Eastern...

Yes, most of the money I make on my writing projects goes to support my book-buying habit... This morning while browsing Fay Sampson's w...

(Anyone else see that Seinfeld episode?) After attempting and setting aside four novels in rapid succession, I've come to the conclusion...

I've been browsing older historical novel deals in Publishers Marketplace and have come across some interesting data on title changes. A...

How long do you continue to read an unenjoyable book before giving up? Nancy Pearl - reader's advisor extraordinaire, author of Book Lus...

I'm writing today from Newington, Connecticut (my hometown), where I'll be until tomorrow. En route to Boston yesterday, we stopped...

I'm starting to dislike Blogger's insistence on titles, but I do like the Moody Blues... and it fits. Just sitting here figuring out...

Here's an ethical issue I've been struggling with recently. Deep thoughts for a Saturday morning, I know, but I'm mostly awake f...

I've been surfing around this morning - as usual - and noticed that Greenwood is having an up-to-50%-off sale on a number of history (an...

I'm home today, about 300 pages into my 550-page review book (not 600pp, as I originally said), and it looks like a rainforest outside -...

So I took this afternoon off work in the hopes I'd settle down and read my latest 600-page review book, but it just wasn't happening...

Back from Chicago, some $500 poorer (hotel, dinners out, shopping...) and enjoying the last two weeks of, er, getting lots of work done, bef...

I've barely blogged anything all week, and here it is Thursday night, I work tomorrow, then we're leaving for a weekend in Chicago r...

I really ought to come up with more creative titles for these posts where I just include news bits and such... anyway, here are some things...