Join productivity sprints with historical fiction authors Margaret Pinard and me on Friday, April 26, 2024! We’ll be spending 2 hours doing a productivity livestream that includes productivity sprints and breaks. You can work on anything at all during the productivity sprints: your schedule for next week or next month, your to-do list, some research, […]
It’s National Picnic Day, so what did Victorian picnic food look like? Get ready to be shocked. Victorian picnics could be family events or social events held by groups or churches. So the amount of attendees varied a lot. In Mrs. Beeton’s Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery from 1865, a 40-person picnic menu included (get ready […]
Jeeves and Wooster have always been a well-loved pair, both in books and in TV adaptations. Now we’re going to bring you “Pearls Mean Tears” from The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in 1923, and you can bet it’s going to be a lot of fun! What the world needs right now is […]
Did you know that the movie His Girl Friday was originally a play called “The Front Page”? But His Girl Friday became a classic movie full of snappy, witty lines that move very fast! Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell immortalized their roles, and it’s a much loved film of Grant’s in particular. What the world needs right […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 27 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 27: Morton, Patrick, and Sean debate who will get the Ruin Rats’s cipher tattoo. The tattoo turns out to be a brutal endeavor. In my […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 26 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 26: Carmichael tries to cope with the enormity of the many high-priority issues that need to be resolved for Dark Acts, until his past comes […]
Most of you know that Lurking for Legends reached its end last month (we made it three years though!), but did you know that David M. Kelly and I have a brand-new live-read channel we’re running together? Introducing Fun Classic Reads! It’s a monthly live read program where we read classics (and some modern works) […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 25 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 25: Morton learns a couple of grim lessons about himself and makes a major decision with risky consequences. In my Patreon post, you’ll always get […]
Prohibited Magic is the third book in the Grimoire Society of Dark Acts series. Episode 24 is up on my Patreon—it’s pay-what-you-like—and it’ll go up later on Kindle Vella. Episode 24: A surprise guest awaits Dark Acts back at their house, and it triggers a troubling reaction. In my Patreon post, you’ll always get exclusive […]
I’m making some changes to my Patreon, and I’d love your opinion, whether or not you’re a member. I’m looking to improve the rewards for joining my Patreon this year, so I want your input on what would make you interested in joining! It doesn’t matter if you’re not sure you want to commit, it […]