I have had frequent requests for maps. this is the one I use – it is pretty good for Roman stuff:
I have deliberately chosen to largely use the Roman names for places – sometimes simplified as I feel that is something Arturo would do, as well as change the endless repetitious names – Caesereas, Castras, Iscas, etc etc etc plus the ludicrous long titles of some places – Arturo would definitely go for simple and individual names.
While Sailing East (Book 5) sits and I cogitate over it, just so you don’t think I’m doing nothing, I’ve thrown 10k words into book 6 – given that it got the lion’s share of what I’d written before splitting book 5 into 5 and 6, it means that it is half way or more written already… maybe… I’m finding the section I planned to add to the beginning to replace what became Sailing East (book 5) is growing in length, indeed it becoming much longer than I originally planned.
Hmmm… we’ll see how it goes in next few weeks.
On another note – Happy Xmas to all of you. I am not a Christian but I don’t subscribe to this Happy Holiday crap. Sorry. Stupid, irrational rubbish. The holidays set for the period around the 25th of December are an inheritance from Christianity. No other faith celebrates then. It is ridiculous to change it to Happy Holidays when the only reason for the holiday is the Christian celebration of this day. The holiday is Christmas… sorry that’s where it comes from and that is what it is. I don’t believe in the Christian Mythos myself but that is irrelevant.
You can imagine what what happy if they tried to change Ramadan to Happy Fasting Month…….
Same thing – moronic. Sorry but it is.
So happy Xmas. 🙂
For those of you who like your Alternate History here is a collection of short stories that includes a story by yours truly… don’t know what the other stories are like yet – going to read it tomorrow but my story is ok – wish I could have had twice the space though. I might come back to it in the future.
You will be pleased to know that I have finished the 1st draft of book 5 – Sailing East. And yes it will be the next book published. The vote was overwhelming for that to be next.
I am not happy with a couple of sections but I am letting it sit for a few weeks before I go back and look at the sections I am not happy with. Hopefully it can go to the editor late January or early February.
I should have the paperback version of Rolling South available early next week.
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