Category: update
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Meet Mother Adele
Next up in the blog post series where I introduce readers to the main characters in Breaking the Silence, which comes out later this month! Abbess of the Monastery One of my favorite characters in Breaking the Silence is Mother Adele, the abbess of St. Maximinus. She’s an enigmatic and powerful character who went through…
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Medieval Studies is FUN!!!
Medieval Studies as a field has gone from the quintessential example of the useless humanities degree that will qualify you for LiKe nO jObS to a strikingly relevant field of expertise that both will save humanity from AI and explains some of the baffling and harmful decisions of the current US administration and their adjacent…
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Meet Stephen
This is the first in a series of blog posts in which I introduce my readers to the main characters, setting, and history of Breaking the Silence ahead of its release, which I am pleased to announce will be early this summer! Preorder your physical copy here! Digital orders coming soon! Meet our Main Character…
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A Cover for Breaking the Silence!
Here it is! The cover features our hero Stephen, an orphaned son of a king who enters a monastery as a novice for safe keeping. Stephen is shown here wearing the black robe of the type worn in Benedictine monasteries in the middle ages. In his arms he holds a cythara, a guitar-like instrument popular…
Tiggy McLaughlin 