ARTICLES, BLOGS, & PODCAST
I research, write, record, and produce Camelot Chat, an ongoing podcast on the history behind Arthurian legend. It educates and entertains both Arthurian enthusiasts and newcomers to Arthuriana.
Dark Mist Rising: Avalon Unveiled is my blog, which showcases some of the research behind my historical fiction novels, histories and mysteries, and poetry. Dark Mist Rising attempts to connect the dots between the mythical Amazons, the mysterious Scyths, and the vanished Pictish culture of Scotland. Come, explore with me the shadowy realms of Scythia and Camelot...
I have written and published a number of articles encompassing my Arthurian expertise, along with several other interests on Medium.
Camelot Chat Podcast
Camelot Chat is my ongoing weekly podcast discussing the history behind Arthurian legend. I conceptualize, write, record, and produce it. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.
Dark Mist Rising: Avalon Unveiled Blog
“Beauty. Aurora. Snow White. Cinderella.
More than just Disney Princesses, their stories originated hundreds of years ago. From an era even before the Dark Age Guinevere, whose time seems so shrouded in mist. A time when Mycenaean warriors launched a thousand ships to retrieve the wayward Helen. An earlier era that saw Eros defy his mother, Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty, for the love of the mortal Psyche. And a still more ancient age, lost to time, when Adam forsook Eden for the wiles of the first known beauty, Eve.
But was it truly beauty which so led men astray from ancient times to this?
Or was it something more...?”
Medium Articles
“… No group in the world has been so linked with horses as the mythological Amazons of the steppes.
But why? What caused these legendary women to be so intrinsically bound up with their mounts, remembered for posterity as near-centaurs?
Before we can compare the mythic Amazon horse culture to those of the more historically-accepted Scythians and Picts, we need to examine the actual evidence — if any survives — that Amazons employed horses in combat: that is, as cavalry…”