What if Caesar wasn't assassinated?

In my new story in Fate: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic, Stannia and Federicus are ‘time-stitchers’ in a future timeline where the Roman Empire is still going strong. No, it’s not Roma Nova, but a completely made-up world.

The instigator of this short story collection, Helen Hollick, told the ten authors to let […]

Fate – Stories to catch your breath

Banner with Fate short story collection image

In previous centuries, belief in fate was strong. Kismet, karma, destiny, the will of a god or gods were the ways people accepted good or bad fortune. Going further back, Greeks and (the especially superstitious) Romans were extremely wary of the Fates.

Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos were the three Moirai, the version of the […]

ChatGPTing about Roma Nova

Roman woman with phone? (AI)

I had a fascinating chat with my phone the other day. Fence-sitter that I am, I haven’t really embraced AI and I voiced my guarded scepticism last year on my writing blog.

However, encouraged by my family, I frivolously threw a question at ChatGPT.

“Have you heard of […]