Twelve years of teaching World History never gave me enough time with Rome, so some of what I wanted to say ended up in four characters. Here they are, with the portraits Jonas Cardona made of each of them.
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I published The Emperor’s Shadow on August 13 from an Airbnb in Colorado. I did not mean to. One of many mistakes I’ve made on this book-writing and publishing journey.
Read MoreA year ago I wrote that I chose fantasy because I did not want to check dates or cross-reference battles. Then I spent three years checking growing seasons, legion sizes, and what a man in that world would have thought worth carving onto a tomb.
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It wasn’t really about the title. It was about how powerless I felt inside a system that didn’t care about good intentions, preparation, or effort. It only cared whether I had learned how to ask for the right thing in the right way.
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