All three Maijstral books have been uploaded to Smashwords. Smashwords pretty much requires that books be submitted in Microsoft Word, a program I’ve never used because it was designed by aliens intent on world conquest.  But I’m better at Word by now, and I’m happy to report that my Smashwords .epub formats are now […]

Okay, kiddies, the ebook versions of the Maijstral books are online! The Kindle editions of The Crown Jewels may be found hereabouts, and Rock of Ages over in this direction. (For some reason the middle book, House of Shards, is held up “for review” at Amazon, and has been for days now.   Which to […]

So here it is Father’s Day.  And here’s my dad, a picture taken on a fishing trip before I was born. What to say about the man who nurtured me, supported me, worked hard to keep food on the table, kept me out of trouble, and helped to knock down Hitler? My dad wasn’t a […]

I see from the papers that Patrick Leigh Fermor (DSO, OBE, COP, Chevalier Ordre des Arts et Lettres, etc.) has died, alas before I got a chance to track him down and share a bottle of ouzo with him.  (He couldn’t wait, I suppose.  He was 96.) I have written elsewhere about his marvelous memoir […]