What does one do in quarantine (well, semi-quarantine) for five months. Well, an author writes. A third Edward Hunter novel, Blood Water, is headed for publication on 1 September. Hunter travels to Venice at the invitation of Philip Sidney, but when he arrives, Sidney...

Yes, I have not entered a blog for some time. Instead of excuses, I submit the first of some interesting shots from Egypt and Jordan. These are places Edward Hunter would never have visited. At least, I do not know of any Elizabethan merchant or adventurer who made it...

Ways to increase my book sales:

1. Change my name to James Patterson or Stephen King. (But any profits would be gobbled up in legal fees.)

2. Require all my students to buy my books, as university professors do. (But I no longer teach, nor was I ever a university pro...

            Setting a historical fiction novel in the 16th century has its problems. For example, would a Venetian patrician own a caged canary in 1574? What sort of grease or oil would someone use on his/her hair at that time? What did English speakers call a goatee b...

My first post is an invitation to sample Massacre.  Just click here  to read the first chapter of the novel.  

You may ask, why did you self-publish, Doug?  

Several reasons, I reply. First, if I were in my twenties and had years to send out cover letters and wait for (usually) no replies, finding an agent and hoping the agent could find a publisher and waiting through edits and...