This week, as you may have noticed, I’m in Greece, The first week I’ll be with friends and family recreating the world of late Archaic Greece at Marathon, near Athens. A great many of the experiments we’ll be trying will involve issues of combat in the ancient world, and especially in the phalanx of the […]
Archives for October 2015
Marathon — Writing about History and friends, too
Not many pictures today. My computer is refusing to load new ones. If you want to pick up the pictures I’m taking in Greece, follow me on Instagram. https://instagram.com/christian_cameron_author/ This is the second in my series of blogs about my trip to Greece. From today until next Monday, I will be at Marathon (Marathonas) a […]
Pen and Sword Tour — Athens
For the next two weeks I’m in Greece. I have pre-written a bunch of these, which I will touch up before they launch. These are the wonder of technology. I plan to bury you in instagram photos of Greek Hoplites, ancient ruins, battlefields, and scenes from Fell Sword and Dread Wyrm… and I thought that […]
The Dread Wyrm Launch Date Today! (or maybe tomorrow…)
So…. Traitorson three will finally be released in the next few hours. In Canada, a surprising number of people already have it. I’m glad for them, but not particularly glad that the mega-chain Chapters Indigo gets my books before my friends at Bakka Phoenix, without whom I’d never have been writing fantasy at all. And […]
Writing about the past – and the present, too
Sometime next fall, I plan to write a novel about Philopoemen, the so-called ‘Last Greek Hero,’ cavalry commander and strategos of the Achaean League in the time of Hannibal and the 2nd Punic War; a brilliant soldier, an innovator, and according to some, the creator of the concept of ‘special forces.’ He’s an exceptional character, […]
