Ship-type Stuff, or More Tedious Details… Here’s something I wish every historical fiction author knew: Gunpowder does not explode. Black powder (gunpowder) burns very hot
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New Review The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody will be reviewed in Booklife, Publishers Weekly’s indy magazine, in the September 25 issue. I received an advance copy of
Humoral medical theory From the last centuries BCE until controlled empirical science took over in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, medical practice was based upon humoral theory. The principles
What are you reading? I recently discovered the delightful Greenwing & Dart series by Victoria Goddard. They are fantasy books set in an eighteenth-century-ish ‘alt-England’ sort of country where magic
Naval surgeon William Beatty’s medical chest at Royal Museums Greenwich Previously, I proposed to say a little about some eighteenth century medications (or ‘physic’) and what they were
Horatio Nelson’s Medicine Chest In The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody, Captain Nelson occasionally requests various things from his portable medicine box. At All Saints Church, in the
Special Discounted Price for Amazon Prime Day! If you haven’t read it yet, the Kindle ebook edition of The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody will be
Genre Elephant Do you know the parable about the elephant? A group of blind men examine an elephant, and each describes what it is like based upon the
I’ve been finding it kind of hard to write, these past few weeks. I keep getting distracted by the Bird Nursery. You can see and/or hear twenty-five different species of
I want to share something with you. So, I have this stationary bike. It has a tablet-sized screen above the handlebars, on which, if you pay for the annual subscription,