BLACK STUMP RIDGE (Excerpt from the Book)

Ein Beitrag von John Manning & Forrest Hedrick

excerptBLACK STUMP RIDGE
Excerpt from the Book

Suddenly, Charlie’s head jerked up.  He turned this way and that as he tried to locate the noise.  He strained his senses.  There! It sounded strange, and yet, familiar.  His heart pounded in his chest as he struggled to hear.  There it was again.  Fiddle music from somewhere to his right.  He turned his head.  The music faded.  He strained but heard nothing more.  Just as he thought he’d imagined it he heard it again as if floating on the barely tangible breeze.  It was definitely fiddle music.  The notes came fast.  The style was familiar.  Charlie searched his memory.  Breakdown! That’s what they called this kind of music.  It was a breakdown.

Weiterlesen ... Kommentar schreiben

INTROSPECTION - The board game of questions never asked and stories never told.

Ein Beitrag von John Manning

The Polygedral Universezur deuschen Version Welcome gamers and to those who are curious about the world of table top gaming. 

My name is John Manning and my goal is to guide you through this fascinating world and to introduce you to the products, people, and places involved with games.

INTROSPECTION
The board game of questions never asked
and stories never told.

The first game I wish to tell you about is a board game called Introspection. 
Weiterlesen ... Kommentar schreiben

A Death in Maastricht

A Death in MaastrichtA Death in Maastricht

zur deutschen Übersetzung Maastricht.  Bisected by the Meuse River, it was an ancient Dutch city protected by formidable ramparts, bastions, and demilunes, well-provisioned and well-manned.  Its commander, M. de Fariaux, the Baron de Mande, was an expatriate Frenchman who had fought the famed Maréchal Turenne  to a standstill some seventeen years earlier.  Maastricht was one of the best-fortified towns in Europe, and it was the key to Louis XIV’s campaign against the Spanish Low Countries—a campaign meant to avenge humiliations enacted upon the young French king by the Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic in 1668.
Weiterlesen ... Kommentar schreiben

Scott Oden presents ... His Novels

Scott Oden presents his NovelsScott Oden presents ...
His Novels

The Lion of Kairo (2010)
The Assassin paid no heed to his quarry’s death throes. His attention remained fixed on the long blade in his fist, on its pommel of yellowed ivory carved in the shape of a djinni’s snarling visage.  “I am al-Hashishiyya,” he said to the glittering-eyed devil.  “I am Death incarnate.”

So am I, the devil replied . . .

On the banks of the ageless Nile, from a palace of gold and lapis lazuli, the young Caliph Rashid al-Hasan rules as a figurehead over a crumbling empire. Cairo is awash in deception. In the shadow of the Gray Mosque, generals and emirs jockey for position under the scheming eyes of the powerful grand vizier.

Weiterlesen ... 4 Kommentare

THE LION OF CAIRO (An Excerpt from the novel)

excerptTHE LION OF CAIRO
(An Excerpt from the novel)

Gamal cursed under his breath as the one-eyed beggar, arm in arm with an older man he’d met, left the teeming Qasaba behind.  Side streets meant a change in tactics.  He slowed their pace, allowed their interval to widen, and prayed to Allah for relief from the sweat stinging his swollen eye.  Though he would have preferred to stay behind and cover the caravanserai, the Heretic had set him a different task: “Follow whoever leaves and mark well their destination.”  He did as ordered.  But who was the old man and where were the two of them headed?  To meet the Emir of the Knife, perhaps?  Unless the old man was the storied Emir . . .?

Gamal shook his head.  Don’t be a fool!  Focus, and be vigilant!
Weiterlesen ... Kommentar schreiben

... Maggie Secara on Gossip, Tudor-times and the Gregorian calendar

Ein Beitrag von Bettina von Allwörden (Meister)

Maggie ecara... Maggie Secara ...
... on Gossip, Tudor-times and the Gregorian calendar

zur deutschen Fassung When it comes to the everyday history and rulers' history of the Tudor period, I turn with confidence to Maggie Secara.
 
In the short time that I know her, I was impressed by the many large and small facts that she knows.

When I then received a review copy of her Tudor-Compendium (Link), I knew Maggie is more than a gossip ... but read for yourself.
Weiterlesen ... Kommentar schreiben