Merry Christmas everybody – I’m done with 2022
It’s been a helluva year in the news: the world coming out of Covid, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the threat…
How to make a living as a historical novelist
There is an old joke that goes: How do you make a million dollars in the restaurant business? Start with…
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I’ve always loved words and, as a schoolboy, I desperately wanted to become an etymologist. I had a collection of…