Apr 13, 2026
Why I Wrote a Quartet, Not a Trilogy
Three books satisfy marketing. Four satisfy story. The three-act structure hides a fourth act, and a quartet is the natural series unit.
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Mar 27, 2026
The Wars That Weapons Decide
Weapons constrain strategy more than generals do. From the tercio to the trenches, every arms-tactics mismatch cost a generation.
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Why I Killed Ben Franklin
Franklin's genius would have dominated the story. Killing him was the hardest narrative choice in the Strand series, and the most necessary.
Read more →Jan 10, 2026
The Instrument Panel We Threw Away
A pilot died ten miles from safety with broken instruments. History is our instrument panel, and we stopped teaching people to read it.
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The Great Fruitcake
Billions of years ago, an infinitely dense fruitcake got lonely and exploded into the universe. A tongue-in-cheek creation myth.
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Period of Divergence
Kill Hitler and another dictator rises. History rarely hinges on one moment. Alternate history needs a period of divergence, not a point.
Read more →Sep 11, 2025
Why the Revolution Was Coming (With or Without Pontiac)
A century of self-governance made American revolution inevitable. What would it actually take to prevent it?
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Pontiac's War and Why
The forgotten 1763 war that overran eight British forts, provoked the Proclamation Line, and set the American Revolution in motion.
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Getting History Wrong (On Purpose)
How to research alternate history, why five books reveal the truth, and why story beats accuracy when the two conflict.
Read more →Apr 15, 2025
The Shot That Changed Everything
What if nobody fired at Lexington Green? The Revolution was inevitable, but one unfired shot could have reshaped two centuries.
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