High-concept - what's that?

Nearly five years ago, the late Paul Sussman, Egyptologist and thriller writer, told me on my Arvon Foundation course that INCEPTIO was high-concept.

I didn’t really have a clue what that meant, but I nodded and thanked him. Did it mean it was highbrow? No, despite all the Roman content, it was an adventure story, […]

Rome and Washington DC

As I walked past the colonnaded white buildings around the Capitol, the National Mall and the Federal Triangle, I knew I couldn’t be the first visitor to make a connection between Washington DC and ancient Rome.

Both sat/sit on a series of hills and both were/are centres of world power.

The massive scale of prestigious […]

INCEPTIO selected as Indie Book of the Day!

Delighted to discover that INCEPTIO had been nominated for the IDB award and even more so when I received an email saying it had been selected as Indie Book of the Day today, 15 June 2015!

They sent me a shiny certificate…

 

and a personalised badge:

Unexpected and so more pleasurable!

 

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