Understanding Old English

May 9, 2021

How far back in history could you go until you could no longer understand the English language?Stanislava Suplatovich has the …

Sea Shanties of the Ancients

May 7, 2021

When I was at school, we learned of Ri-Pa-Pe – the rhythmic chant of Athenian oarsmen pulling a trireme’s 180 …

May 5, 2021

I’m fresh back from my Easter break, and have the story of one of the most impressive treasures ever found …

May 2, 2021

It’s Orthodox Easter today. Visitors of this blog may recall my older posts on the quaint Greek customs such as …

April 29, 2021

Many of you have asked me how you can create universal links. These are easy-to-remember links like “mybook.to/pearseus” that automatically …

April 23, 2021

Have you heard the news? Amazon just announced the Kindle Vella system. This is sort of “Wattpad on Amazon,” as …

April 21, 2021

As writers, we’ve all struggled with people, thoughts, and objects constantly distracting us while writing. In my case, it’s an …

April 19, 2021

From the story of how Shakespeare died a nobody, then got famous by accident to a Shakespearean insults infographic, the …

April 17, 2021

I frequently write about free photo editing tools like Picture Colorizer; a tool that automatically colorizes your old photos. But …