I noticed this morning that I hadn't shared my Author's View of All Timelines Lead to Rome on Amazon, I wrote down some thoughts and figured I would share them here too.

I start most of my novels with an interesting world. The characters and plot flow from that world and usually wouldn't work without the world.

The world of All Timelines: In the ( Read more... )

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... )

I've been quiet here for the last 6 weeks, partly because of real-life issues and partly due to last-minute preps for the release of my new novel.

Here is the press release:

All Timelines Lead to Rome - By: Dale Cozort - available in trade paperback and e-book formats September 30, 2012 from Stairway Press.

A unique alternate history: Newly created ( Read more... )

This is a brief excerpt from my Nanowrimo novel.  For those of you who aren't familiar with NaNoWriMo, it's a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November.  I wrote a little over 73,000 words, not quite enough to finish this novel, but enough to get about three-fourths of the way done.

“It’s a volume in Livy’s ‘A History of ( Read more... )