A Chaplain's collection of stories
I guess it's time to get completely integrated with the full writer community here on the TWC.
My AARs currently on the TWC
The Kingdom of Ionia - A Roman Reinterpretation of the Crusades
It is remarkable that the Kingdom of Ionia had survived for as long as it did. A brief twenty years of violent and often times quite bloody history exists only in rumors and hearsay. Little archeological evidence supports the existence of such a kingdom. However, the presence of three newly unearthed coins inscribed with Rex S. Pap. Cra dating back to this period seem to suggest that at one point or another, something of this Kingdom of Ionia must have existed...
With the Lions of Caesar: From Siscia to Bathinus - A Soldier's Recollection of the Pannonian Revolt
When I was eleven, Gnaeus Juventius Pavo had been my best friend. We grew up next to each other in the newer apartment insulae of Ostia. In the summer, we raced with the other boys through the wide winding streets to the docks and watched ships from different seas across the world being tugged into their respective lanes. When boredom overtook us, our destinations often turned to the waves and the beach. There, the bigger boys challenged each other to a race to an island in the distance while we built up mounds of wet sand and pretended to be soldiers assaulting a stronghold. In the afternoon, muddy and sun-burnt, we sat along the dock. Each of us would have bought some exotic fruit or other edible from a newly arrived merchant. Different merchants were pointed out and their origins guessed. As the sun rose higher, our group inevitably drifted back towards the beach to lie on the cool wet sands, pointing at the sky. When the shadows of the ship masts began tilting to the east, we picked up our clothes and shuffle back towards the insulae.
Beyond TWC
Outside of the AAR and TWC community, I'm a Kindle author with my own line of historical fiction under the pen name Joseph Hunley (those of you who know me on a more personal level will know that my name is something entirely different)
My current Kindle works are part of my Fifty Tales from Rome collection (which had been floating around the Creative Writing forums for a while before I decided to individually publish each tale). The collection isn't vast by any means but should prove to be somewhat entertaining.
All my works from Fifty Tales from Rome are available for free through the Kindle Owner's Lending Library.
The Sands of Carrhae
Bittersweet Homecoming
The Waters of Actium
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Interesting stuff! Do you find it a good way of publishing? It's always hard to imagine how succesful these things can become...
Originally Posted by Boustrophedon
