Alternate history is really quite different from a fiction  author's viewpoint than from a pure playing with history viewpoint. When I'm in 'playing with history' mode, I like small obscure changes, kind of a scalpel approach.  What would happen if the Allies lost at D-Day? That's not a scalpel-type change. It's of moderate interest, but probably ( Read more... )

The Kindle edition of my novel All Timelines Lead to Rome is out now, almost two weeks early. Other editions will be out between now and the official launch date of September 30th.  As the title suggests, this is Alternate History and involves a surviving Roman Empire, though not exactly what you would expect from that description. This is as much ( Read more... )

This is the Alternate History background for my novel "All Timelines Lead to Rome", due out September 30th of this year:

Most of you have heard about the Flores "Hobbits"--tiny, primitive sort of humans that supposedly survived on the Indonesian island of Flores until around 12,000 years ago. The AH for "All Timelines" has a similar species of ( Read more... )

As I've mentioned a couple of times, my novel All Timelines Lead To Rome is due out later this year. It has our world discovering an alternate reality in the near future. In the alternate reality, Rome, and the rest of the civilized parts of the Old World, essentially froze in the political and technical state they were in early in the Christian ( Read more... )