http://www.marioreading.com Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:41:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's very little that can beat the buzz of starting work on a new book. I'm not talking about the mental preparation, the character breakdowns, the background searches, the frenetic visualisation - all of which put the fear of God into me. No, it's the actual writing that is so ... http://www.marioreading.com/2011/08/working-on-a-new-novel/ The idea for my new non-fiction book, Nostradamus & The Third Antichrist: Napoleon, Hitler & ‘The One Still To Come’ [Watkins, March 2011] stemmed naturally from my work on the Complete Nostradamus. It occurred to me, whilst researching that book, that no one had attempted a distillation of all Nostradamus’s ... http://www.marioreading.com/2011/02/nostradamus-the-third-antichrist/ There has been an interesting correspondence, both on my blog, by post, and through Amazon, concerning the ending I have given to The Mayan Codex. The problem seems to have arisen largely thanks to the design of the A and B format paperback editions. In both of these, the ending ... http://www.marioreading.com/2011/01/the-mayan-codex-updated/ On Saturday I enjoyed a splendid evening reading my poetry, alongside fellow poets Peter John Cooper and Keith Bennett, as part of the Bournemouth Literary Festival's Poetry Mash Up. I still don't quite understand what a poetry mash up is, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. The audience at the Winchester ... http://www.marioreading.com/2009/10/bournemouth-literary-festival/ A busy week, which has taken us up to 27 foreign rights sales for The Nostradamus Prophecies, with Turkey, Denmark, and even Indonesia [something of a first, I gather], coming on board. You win some, you lose some, however, and I have a true story to tell you - a ... http://www.marioreading.com/2009/06/a-bag-in-the-hand-is-worth-two-in-the-bin/ http://www.marioreading.com/2009/02/books/