My first published novel, To Glory Arise, originally titled The Privateer when it was first released, will be on sale for the next week for a mere $0.99.  It’s available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Smashwords,  iBooks, and (for those of you on the Indian subcontinent) Flipkart. The book is jolly good fun, though […]

When you’re joiking, you’re joiking alone.  But not in this case. Joiking is normally an a cappella art form, but here Wimme brings a rhythm track with him, for a song as big as all Texas. I’m not sure where the picture comes from.  It’s not the album cover, anyway. But what I’d like to […]

I’ve just finished The Broken Road, the long-delayed third volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s memoir of the walk across Europe that the 18-year-0ld Fermor took in 1933, just after Hitler took power in Germany. I have mentioned the earlier volumes, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water elsewhere, and added a little appreciation of […]