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Some time ago an alert reader sent me a copy of this book cover, which he’d noticed on Amazon: The book was self-published through Amazon and apparently no copies are available, so I have [...]

So one of the fine members of The Well-Trained Mind message boards actually CONSULTED the “Works Cited” in the History of the Ancient World. One of my previous books (The [...]

Today’s the formal release date for The History of the Medieval World. It’s actually been shipping for weeks; “publication day” is a myth, as I’ve noted before. But [...]

I pre-ordered a copy of The History of the Medieval World from Amazon.com months ago, back when the book went into production (I always do this, just to keep tabs on availability). Today I get [...]

No, not that kind. My author’s copies of The History of the Medieval World arrived! SOOO pretty… Ooh, and look at them TOGETHER… Really a lovely design job–same look as [...]

Today I got the index of The History of the Medieval World from Norton. This is usually the very last proofreading/checking/eyeballing task I have before the book goes to print; indexing [...]

If you want to preview the flap copy for the upcoming book, read on (and please forgive the self-promotion, it’s what we writers do.) A History of the Medieval World From the Conversion of [...]

I was just sending off the first-pass galleys when a box arrived from Norton with the bound versions. These are the books that go out to reviewers so that they’ll have enough lead time to [...]

I’m making progress on the first-pass galleys. Just trying to remember to take breaks whenever I find myself scrawling in huge capital letters WHY IS THIS NOT IN ITALICS? or WHERE IS THE [...]

So those first-pass galleys for The History of the Medieval World now look like this: which is to say, I haven’t started the serious read-through of them yet. They’re due back August [...]

And with no warning, the first-pass galleys of the History of the Medieval World have arrived in a big box on my doorstep: the manuscript in the bottom of the box, and the galleys on top. Gearing [...]

OK, I have done it. I finished going through the copyedits on 800 pages of medieval history manuscript. That’s all I’ve done for a week (which is why there hasn’t been a blog [...]