This week, Peace Hill Press has a booth at BEA, inside the Norton space. I’m here along with Pattie, my intrepid executive assistant, and John, the PHP Director of Marketing and online [...]

Thanks so much to all of you who posted in response to my giveaway offer, below, of the History of the Renaissance World galleys. As I noted below, I’m going to give away three copies [...]

Ta-daa! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the pre-publication process, “bound galleys” are the first-pass typeset pages of a book (“first-pass” means [...]

Greetings from the farm, where a combination of spring tasks (pasture management, fruit tree spraying, spring planting, dosing sheep with concentrated garlic juice, things like that) and lots of [...]

Here on the farm, spring means fruit tree pruning, sheep shearing, planting, new pasturing…and all sorts of other things. I’ll be posting photos of these activities as they happen. [...]

Following on my first and second posts in this series, I’ll now wrap up by telling you why my upcoming History of the Renaissance World begins in the twelfth century and ends with the [...]

Not long ago, I received the following email from a loyal reader: You noted in your blog that the “History of the Renaissance World…will cover from the end of the First Crusade to the end of the [...]

(Part Two of “When Did the Middle Ages End?” coming shortly! In the meantime…) Anyone want to play Where in the World is Susan? These should give you a pretty broad [...]

Late last spring, feeling punchy after way too many hours at the keyboard, I tossed off the following email to my esteemed editor: Dear Star, I have a new title idea. How about “There Is No [...]

As I promised in my last post, I watched the second half of Lance Armstrong’s interview. And no, he didn’t change my mind. What was he thinking? What were his handlers thinking? What [...]