I have to admit, I am feeling a bit spaced out today so you’ll have to forgive me if I’m a little all over the place with this blog. It seems that my usual end of year tiredness has gone to a whole new level this year in true 2020 style. I had meant toContinue reading “December 2020 Wrap Up”
Category Archives: History
March Update: Writing in the Time of the ‘Rona
How are you all? Keeping sane as much as possible? Like many of you, I’m now working from home and trying to keep away from the public in general. I keep seeing all these posts everywhere about what famous writers wrote while they were in quarantine and all I can think is…please fuck off. ChuckContinue reading “March Update: Writing in the Time of the ‘Rona”
The Immortal City is HERE
The time is now! ‘The Immortal City’ is out in the world at last! I’ve talked about it a lot in vague terms and descriptions the past few months to avoid spoilers but no more. Over the next few blogs I’m going to be talking about the main players in ‘The Immortal City’; and todayContinue reading “The Immortal City is HERE”
‘A’ is for August and Atlantis
It’s exactly 1 month and 8 days until the release of ‘The Immortal City’ and so I thought I’d change the usual blog format up to talk about Atlantis, in particular, two historical figures that are mentioned in the book; Plato and Helena Blavatsky. Let’s start with Plato, the Greek Grand Daddy of allContinue reading “‘A’ is for August and Atlantis”
July Update and Big Changes
Argh! 1 month and 26 days until ‘The Immortal City’ release! I thought I’d be less excited by now but the opposite is proving true – I AM PUMPED. I can’t wait until this baby is out in the world. It will be my first release with a traditional publishing house so I feel likeContinue reading “July Update and Big Changes”
Jesus wasn’t white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here’s why that matters
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Hans Zatzka (Public Domain)/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970sContinue reading “Jesus wasn’t white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here’s why that matters”
Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero
Ali Alizadeh, Monash University One need not be a parent of a young child, as I am, to be conscious of the full-blown resurgence of the superhero in contemporary popular culture. Beyond the dizzying proliferation of fetishised merchandise to do with Marvel and DC protagonists and the frankly obscene sights of middle-aged folk squeezed intoContinue reading “Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero”
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