Hello. Dis is Fræd Coxby of Coxby and Twine’s Publishing Ltd. I’m just trilled to tell all yous literary mugs out dere about a special offer on two books by dis guy Aaron Gruben. For…
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The phrase came to mind as clear skies and acres of green pecan trees flew past me without cheering me up. It’s an old adage that actually makes some sense. Not like “a rolling stone…
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I apologize ahead of time for my next book. I have four toddlers, you see, and a stressful full time job to support them, and more often than not I haven’t been able to think…
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A passage that stood out in my Bible reading was the account of Christ casting a demon out of a little boy in Mark 9:14-29. There is such heart-tugging tragedy here, and one wants…
Leave a CommentThank you for all the interest in Crescent Tides! My next project is to finish writing a goofy fantasy story I started years ago. To whet your appetite, here’s a draft of Appendix A. It explains…
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One of the things that stood out while researching and writing my new book Crescent Tides (which I’m excited to say will come out very soon), was the frequent similarity between the 16thcentury Ottoman Empire…
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The furta sacra (or holy theft) of a saint’s bones in the Middle Ages was often viewed as a heroic act of rescuing a saint from people that possess his relics wrongfully. They were gleefully written about…
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Hello persistent and loyal readers! Life has been catching up with me again and I have not been blogging. And for that reason I wrote up a little blurb on some of my thoughts from…
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Wæs ðu hal [1] fellow pilgrims all! This is a quick blog post to apologize for not posting anything for a long time and let the world know that I have not been assassinated by a shadowy…
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