The new cover for Aculeo & Amunet’s second outing, again by the fantastic Luca Morandi.
Category Archives: Aculeo & Amunet
By the gods! – Cursing in Latin redux
A while back I did a post about cursing in Latin and Ancient Greek.
In my Aculeo & Amunet stories, Latin and Classical Greek swearwords are often used as a replacement for English-language swearwords – it’s fun, it adds a nice period-feel, makes happy the philologists among my readers and allows my characters to talk dirty without actually being dirty.
Because irrumator is a lot better than a##hole.
But what about invoking the name of the gods? Continue reading
Talk like a Roman
A great vlog post by the esteemed Lindybeige about language in Ancient Rome – a post that has a very close connection with my Aculeo & Amunet stories1 – and also has a certain connection whit the Great Swape Debate.
Enjoy.
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- yes, I still remember the guy that said a Roman centurion would never use the expression “cuckold“ ↩
Toads and Ice Magic
And so, as the deadine looms closer, I completely scrapped one of the two stories I have to deliver within the week.
Why?
Well, because basically it stank to high heaven.
So I dropped the lot in the waste basket – and wrote 3000 words (out of the planned 6000) of the new take in two hours, plus a small break to eat a croissant and drink a cup of Indian Chai Tea.
Because here’s the interesting fact – when you like what you are writing, you can write it fast.
Or at least, that’s how it works for me.
Which is the reason why I was able to write and clean up the new Aculeo & Amunet story in two days – and the story, tentatively titled The Altar of the Toad (aka “A&A story #8”), is now in the trusted hands of my long suffering editrix. Continue reading
Join the Party!
The launch party for The Hand of Isfet is about to begin.
You can join the party by directing your browser to the Facebook page for the event.
Loathe Facebook?
Follow our weird shenanigans on Twitter by using the hashtags #handofisfet and #aculeoandamunet.
Twitter revolts you and Facebook gives you the creeps?
Well, leave us a line here in the comments to this post.
The Hand of Isfet is the new collection of sword & sorcery stories featuring Aculeo and Amunet, the (unlikely) heroes of Bride of the Swamp God and Lair of the White Ape.
Come join the party – it will be fun: we have no idea of what we are doing!
Come to the Party!
As I’m writing this we’re less than a week away from the launch party for The Hand of Isfet, and things are going strong.
A bit hectic, but strong.
IF – and that’s a big if – everybody that said they’ll be at the party will really be at the party, we’ll be almost 50.
Which is a lot, for me.
Actually, it’s more people than any other party I attended… except maybe that time in Kilburn when the girls in a university guest-house set-up a weekend-long bring-a-bottle party.
But that’s another story altogether.
And let’s not get scared by numbers – if you’re coming, or if you’re not coming, please spread the news.
Thank you!
We’re gonna party like it was 276 AD (yeah, I know, this one’s getting old…)
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The Hand of Isfet – Contubernium
OK, you know the drill – new ebook coming in two weeks, great cover, you can pre-order it…
What about a sneak peek at the contents?
The Hand of Isfet is a 35.000+ words collection, with five new stories about Aculeo & Amunet – that some of you might already have met in Bride of the Swamp God and in Lair of the White Ape.
What’s inside The Hand of Isfet?
Well, for instance, there’s Centurion Nennius Britannicus, and his band of brave legionaries – a contubernium, to be more historically accurate.
This happens somewhere near the middle of the story that gives the title to the whole ebook. Continue reading
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