fictionAugust 10, 2026
In the twelve months of AD 69 Rome had four emperors and three of them died violently. Around forty thousand men died in a single afternoon at Bedriacum, Romans on both sides, and the empire learned something it never unlearned.
Critical ThinkingAugust 7, 2026
In 1984 a former Soviet propagandist described four stages for taking a country apart: demoralize a generation, destabilize its institutions, manufacture a crisis, normalize what follows. He said the first stage was already finished in America.
AI OverrelianceMay 28, 2026
AI handles research surprisingly well for one kind of work and dangerously badly for another, and the gap between safe use and a published embarrassment is knowing which is which. Background reading, terminology, and overview synthesis it does competently when…
Character DevelopmentFebruary 11, 2026
The DVD shelf became a subscription; the rotary phone became a prop; the encyclopedia set became a relic. For a fiction writer, those dead objects are live tools, because one period-accurate detail places a scene in its decade better than…
AI OverrelianceFebruary 10, 2026
MIT tracked 54 brains for four months as people wrote essays, and the ChatGPT group came out worst, weakest neural connectivity, poorest memory, growing dependency, many unable to quote their own writing minutes later. It is not peer-reviewed yet, but…
BiasFebruary 9, 2026
Nonfiction should help us see the world more clearly, but too often it just flatters the worldview readers walked in with, because the likes and shares flow to whatever confirms the audience, not whatever challenges it. The louder the echo,…
BiasFebruary 8, 2026
If anyone could escape an echo chamber, surely it would be the professors and researchers who put critical thinking on their business cards. Yet some of the most airtight, inbred bubbles on earth live inside academia, because intelligence does not…
AI AdoptionJanuary 17, 2026
Adoption numbers, detection accuracy, reader response, publisher policy. What the research supports, what it does not support, and where the figures everyone quotes came from.
fiction writingOctober 19, 2025
Master the essential research techniques for writing authentic military fiction. From weapons accuracy to tactical realism, learn what matters most.
historical fictionOctober 25, 2024
Historical novelist Diana Rubino on the misplaced library book that launched her career, writing biographical fiction about Richard III, Hamilton, and Aaron Burr, and why research is the best part.
Author TalksNovember 11, 2018
Catherine Meyrick joins Author Talks to discuss Forsaking All Other, self-publishing historical fiction, research, and letting characters lead.
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