Here is the conclusion to my interview with Robert Treskillard, author of Merlin’s Blade and Merlin’s Shadow. To learn more about his works, visit the blog tour, or his profiles on Goodreads and Amazon. What level of historical veracity did you aim to achieve? Well … as highly accurate as I was able to write,…
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CSFF Blog Tour: Interview with Robert Treskillard, part 1
This is the first half of my interview with Robert Treskillard, author of Merlin’s Blade and Merlin’s Shadow, books one and two in the Merlin Spiral. Enjoy! How far back does your interest in King Arthur go? When I was fourteen I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and I fell in…
CSFF Blog Tour: To Speak Randomly
I thought that, for my final considerations on The Shadow Lamp and the Bright Empires series, I would use a kind of essay format, as this would let me bring up all sorts of random observations without having to coherently connect them. Feel free to answer any or all questions in the comments: I won’t…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Shadow Lamp
Can you think of anything more frightening than the End of Everything, the total collapse of the universe? I can. I saw that TV show where the aliens sent ships to burn up every nation on Earth, city by city. If we’re all going to die, the universe collapsing frankly sounds like an easier way…
CSFF Blog Tour: Anniversary Edition
So the CSFF blog tour begins again. This month’s subject is The Shadow Lamp, the fourth book in Stephen Lawhead’s Bright Empires series. I’ve enjoyed every blog tour I’ve done with the CSFF, but I always have a special fondness for the books of the Bright Empires series. This is, in large part, because of…
CSFF Blog Tour: Romans and Druids
In Sigmund Brouwer’s speculative series Merlin’s Immortals, Druids are the villains – lying, thieving, manipulative, murdering villains. This, of course, is only fiction. The real Druids were much worse. The Druids regarded it as unlawful to commit their teachings to writing. The oldest accounts of them come to us through a third party – a…
CSFF Blog Tour: Martyr’s Fire
When a lord’s city is filled with secrets he can sense but not see; when the enemies he once beat seem determined to win again, and when they are strangely adept at disappearing, and strangely adept at reappearing; when frauds come with lying blessings and lying relics, and win the hearts of a lord’s subjects…
CSFF Blog Tour: Fantasizing History
One would naturally assume that a series called Merlin’s Immortals would be a straight-up, magic-and-swords fantasy series. But one would naturally be wrong. In Merlin’s Immortals, Sigmund Brouwer slowly lifts the veil on two secret circles, long at war with each other – the Druids, and Merlin’s Immortals. You would think that Druids – those…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Hero’s Lot
Even if your enemy has any number of vicious cutthroats, and still more vicious ferrals, at his command, one could see reason in hunting him down, if the necessity were great enough. But when your enemy can see you coming from a thousand miles away, one would strain hard to see any reason in taking…
CSFF Blog Tour: A Cast of Stones
Not to put too fine a point on it, Errol Stone is a drunk. Drinking is the only thing he’s good at. That, and running errands over the Cripples. In an effort to earn more ale money, he agreed to take a message to the hermit-priest. So he got involved in the Church, and the…