One of my favourite symphonies is Gustav Mahler’s Second. I listened to it as I shaped Reap the Whirlwind. Here is the link. Mahler Symphony No. 2 The beginning of Mahler’s Resurrection symphony raises questions of life and death while expressing a message of hope but leaves the question of eternal life after death unanswered. In this, …
I don’t know where we’re going, but it’s time…there’s no going back. I began writing a long time ago, with letters to my wife before we were married. She worked in the veteran’s hospital in Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, and I was an engineering student at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick. …
I had written all of The Songs of War books before it occurred to me that I hadn’t properly introduced Juliette and Peter to my readers. Fortunately, I hadn’t published any of the books in the series, so I postponed everything until I wrote a prelude to the WWII series. Fools, Angels and the Devil …
Welcome to my fourth newsletter. If you want to review the first three, they are Blogs on my website, thesongsofwar.com. The first four books of The Songs of War series are available there, and the fifth will be published in April. Readers like you sometimes decide whether to buy a book by reading the reviews, so it is …
The Cloverfield Bee Wars is an allegory, and most readers don’t know or care what an allegory is. If you’ve read Animal Farm by George Orwell or Watership Down by Richard Adams, you’ve read an allegory. The first example uses farm animals to illustrate human behaviour, and the second uses rabbits… I use bees. Bees …