New book update
The History of the Medieval World has just appeared on Amazon! This always makes the book seem much more real to me…despite the fact that there’s still production work to be done. In [...]
Weeks 15 and 16 of the “52 Books in 52 Weeks”
Time for another update on the 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge. I’m reading novels right now. Still feeling massive post-manuscript burnout (I need to post some more reflections on this but [...]
You might want to check your RSS feed…
My technologically-alert friend Charlie has pointed out that the RSS feed for this blog has changed (thanks to updates) from http://susan.peacehillpress.net/blog/?feed=rss2 to [...]
Dispatch from Cincinnati
This weekend I’m in Cincinnati at the Duke Energy Center, giving eight workshops on writing, literature, and classical education at the Midwest Homeschool Convention. This is a big and very [...]
History of the Medieval World…catalog page!
I’ve just gotten a copy of the Norton Fall 2009/Winter 2010 catalog, with the page in it for the History of the Medieval World. It’ll be out February 2010. So, just because I want [...]
The 52 Books challenge, Weeks…oh, I can’t remember.
Just FYI, I have been keeping up with the 52 Books in 52 Weeks challenge, I just haven’t been posting about it. I’m enjoying reading the books, but I’m plain old unmotivated [...]
What “genius” and “being a writer” have in common
Yesterday I did my usual Saturday quarter-mile trek to get the mail (large steel rural mailbox, trek made in the afternoon since weekend mail doesn’t come until 3 PM at the earliest, [...]
What would YOU like to see in your bookstore?
Just out of curiosity… If you teach your kids at home (either full-time, or after their classroom education)…what would you like to see at your local bookstore that would help make [...]