I admit I haven't yet read a single book in the series, but this Harry Potter parody video is just too good to resist posting. It will p...

See yesterday's blog entry for Part 1 of the interview , if you haven't read it yet. And apparently, because I said the word "b...

David Blixt’s first novel, The Master of Verona , begins a generation before Romeo & Juliet , positing a reason for the deadly feud betw...

The editors' choice reviews from August's HNR are online. The forthcoming books page has been updated (par moi) with US titles thr...

I managed to earn this rating because I said the word "dead" twice and "corpse" once, and that was in quoting the Chabon...

Interior book design is one of those things meant to be unobtrusive - if you notice it, there's something wrong. Yesterday evening I re...

On January 1st of this year, I posted a small number of reading resolutions . Alas, I haven't been doing very well by them so far. The o...

What happens when you write a review of an alternate history novel that not only grants a number of backhanded compliments to the author, b...

We're looking for input for a feature in the next Historical Novels Review (August - the 10th anniversary issue). We want to know which...

I found it amusing but a little strange to discover via the HNS Online Newsletter that there's a new historical novel, Owen Sheers' ...

... are now online at Kodak Gallery . Enjoy the show. (Click on View Slideshow - you don't have to sign in.) I'll be linking these u...

While scanning through Waterstone's list of historical novels this morning (with thanks to Kieron for making me look at their site again...

Amazon UK, that is. And neither can Book Depository, Good Book Guide, or Waterstone's online... Why do they make it impossible to search...

Aww. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Book discussion will resume tomorrow.

You know it's going to be a weird day when you stagger up the steps to the post office, a huge bin of packages in both hands, and the po...

I realize you may be tired of hearing about the conference, but there are more links I just have to post, because unlike me, some people in...

There'll be more photos forthcoming on the HNS website later, but here we are - the HNS conference board of directors, hanging out in th...

I'm back in the land of corn, soybeans, and bugs, and mostly unpacked, although my mind is still back east, in NYC and Albany. The photo...

After two years of planning and preparation, it's hard to believe the Albany conference is over. It was a pretty intense three days, and...

I did absolutely nothing useful today, aside from answering about a dozen conference-related emails. Instead, we drove south on Rte. 9 towar...