We are well into 2021 now, and hopefully the world is getting on top of COVID.

In the last year, I enjoyed producing Study Guides with Texts to my two favorite Greek plays, Antigone by Sophocles and Medea by Antigone. I also wrote a Study Guide to On the Come up, Angie Thomas’ sequel to The Hate You Give. The latter has sold well in Germany, but my guide to the sequel (which is, I think, a better novel) has hardly sold at all. Perhaps what I most enjoyed though was completing a trilogy of Study Guides with Texts to the poems of A. E. Housman, a British poet who may not be well-known to Americans. The three books are: A Shropshire Lad, Last Poems and More Poems & Additional Poems. At the last minute, I found that the Additional Poems were still in copyright, but the Society of Authors, which manages Housman’s estate, gave me permission to use them.

I am currently working on a sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen set in 1815. Just at the moment, Elizabeth Darcy is experiencing sea bathing at Scarborough, Lady Catherine has died, leaving Rosings bankrupt. Oh, and Captain Wickham has gone to Belgium to fight Napoleon at Waterloo – but not before threatening to expose Georgiana’s shame! What will happen to Anne De Bough? Will Wickham die at Waterloo? Can Georgiana’s reputation be saved? All will be revealed!

What else? Well, I am still working on the Last Clerical Investigations of the Reverend Lyle Thorne, but I am also working an a book on Slavery in America which considers The 1619 Project and The 1776 Project. My aim is to show how to learn about slavery, and above all how to distinguish a valid from a fallacious argument.

I am still writing products for Teachers Pay Teachers. Check me out on their site.