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Growing up an Army brat offered a unique view of our world. From Denmark, Britain, Germany and points between, the weight of our past stood writ in stone as much as the history books. Castles, cathedrals, bridges and watchtowers all spoke to the lives and ambitions of their builders; and in their ruins, to their deaths.
It was in such ancient ground that my imagination found a lifelong fascination with our past. And foremost amongst all the tales told in the rock and stone, the rusted steel and bone of history, Rome it was that captured my young soul.

Still captured, though no longer quite so young, I owe much to those who have fed my dreams, who have nurtured that wonderful exercise of the imagination – But what if? – over the years. To writ ...more

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Upon A Legacy Sworn: Book I - The Years of Bone and Ash
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Part V of Conflict, War, and Mortality I think when we write fantasy, sci fi, lit fiction … any fiction, when we join our own “what ifs” to the ink in our pens and spread a part of ourselves across each page, we invest our characters with everything that experience has taught us, everything that...

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