Now one of the things you can do with word of the day is enhance your hit rate by choosing words that search engines are looking for. Now I may be mistaken but I think Trump will get a few views. The Oxford Shorter English Dictionary (SOD) gives me four definitions...

My book publicist insisted that I have a website and that I post something every day. Whenever I have something relevant to my books, I will obviously post about that. I have been running an on this day series because as a writer of historical crime fiction I have an...

Things are gradually clicking into place for publication of Serpent’s Teeth, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, on the 1st of November. Meanwhile Cade’s Point, the sixth book, is in first draft awaiting Claire’s scrutiny. Unfortunately not only has...

From the 8th of October, to the 1st of November, 451CE, hundreds of bishops gathered at Chalcedon, across the Bosporus from Constantinople, for one of the most consequential meetings in the history of Christianity. The Council of Chalcedon attempted to settle a...

I will always be grateful to Niels Bohr because there was almost always a question on Bohr’s model of the atom in the Oxford Entrance and Scholarship Examination, and knowing that helped me pass. Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885–1962) was a Danish physicist whose ideas...

I have written often enough about the Eighty Year’s War because my ancestor, Sir Anthony Standen, was involved as Francis Walsingham’s spy, but I have not written about the Seven Year’s War. On the 6th of October, 1762, the British captured Manila from the Spanish and...

I choose the tragic crash of the R101 airship on the 5th of October, 1930, for today’s post. I have already posted on the attempted assassination of Paulo Sarpi on this day in 1607. That is a key event in Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen...

As an author, I’m obviously interested in books and printing. I’ve written about Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of the moveable type printing press. On the 4th of October, 1535, William Tyndall and Myles Coverdale printed the Coverdale Bible with translations...

Now one of the things you can do with word of the day is enhance your hit rate by choosing words that search engines are looking for. Now I may be mistaken but I think Trump will get a few views. The Oxford Shorter English Dictionary (SOD) gives me four definitions...

My book publicist insisted that I have a website and that I post something every day. Whenever I have something relevant to my books, I will obviously post about that. I have been running an on this day series because as a writer of historical crime fiction I have an...

Things are gradually clicking into place for publication of Serpent’s Teeth, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, on the 1st of November. Meanwhile Cade’s Point, the sixth book, is in first draft awaiting Claire’s scrutiny. Unfortunately not only has...

From the 8th of October, to the 1st of November, 451CE, hundreds of bishops gathered at Chalcedon, across the Bosporus from Constantinople, for one of the most consequential meetings in the history of Christianity. The Council of Chalcedon attempted to settle a...

I will always be grateful to Niels Bohr because there was almost always a question on Bohr’s model of the atom in the Oxford Entrance and Scholarship Examination, and knowing that helped me pass. Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885–1962) was a Danish physicist whose ideas...

I have written often enough about the Eighty Year’s War because my ancestor, Sir Anthony Standen, was involved as Francis Walsingham’s spy, but I have not written about the Seven Year’s War. On the 6th of October, 1762, the British captured Manila from the Spanish and...

I choose the tragic crash of the R101 airship on the 5th of October, 1930, for today’s post. I have already posted on the attempted assassination of Paulo Sarpi on this day in 1607. That is a key event in Fire and Earth, the second book in the Sir Anthony Standen...

As an author, I’m obviously interested in books and printing. I’ve written about Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of the moveable type printing press. On the 4th of October, 1535, William Tyndall and Myles Coverdale printed the Coverdale Bible with translations...