Mon. 8th February: Roman ‘Swiss Army Knife’!

I love love love archaeology. Every so often, they find something which expands our knowledge of the ancient world, and we can say: ‘Wow, the Romans/Greeks/Egyptians did know how to do this/that/the other’!

Check out the link here

Wed. 13th January: Release in the USA +8 days

The paperback of The Forgotten Legion was released in the USA on the 5th of January, and I’ve got some ads promoting the novel on book blogs. If you’ve come here from one of those, welcome! Please have a look around, and if you have any comments, email me on ben@benkane.net Thanks!

Mon. 4th January 2010: Belated Season’s Greetings!

My apologies to everyone for not putting on a ‘Happy Christmas/Holidays’ greeting on before the 25th of December. Snowed under by festive catering etc. etc. etc.

Anyway, a very Happy New Year to all of you, and may it be a better year than 2009, which of course was hard for many people in so many ways.

I’ve started Soldier of Carthage, the first novel in my new trilogy, which is very exciting…getting my head into new characters and a new time zone is strange, after so long with Romulus, Fabiola and the boys.