Two of my earlier articles have been judged worthy to find their way into All About History’s Annual bookazine! The first is ‘Roman Mystery Cults’, a look at several religious cults of the ancient world that are not as well known as those dedicated to the more familiar Olympian deities. The second is ‘Hannibal Barca: Enemy of Rome.’ Yes, it really is about Hannibal of Carthage, and right again, he also did not like ancient Rome, not even a little. Look for the Annual on the magazine rack of your local bookstore if you’re in there soon.  

Big news! I’ve just had a short story, “Yesterday’s Battlefield,” appear in the science fiction anthology Dimensional Gates! Published by ZMOK Books, Dimensional Gates is set in the same universe as the miniatures battle game Beyond the Gates of Antares, the latest masterpiece from the legendary designer, Rick Priestley, who is also the creator of the famed Warhammer 40,000.
Here is the background of Antares: In the far future, six ages have come and gone, and in the current, Seventh Age, humanity has built an ultra-high-tech galactic civilization tenuously linked by transdimensional gates clustered around the red giant star Antares. Antares, however, is actually not a star, but is rather a massive alien machine that allows faster-than-light travel through space. Intrepid explorers, merchants, and military men go through these star gates seeking riches and lost technology. The result of their efforts is anything but peaceful, and Beyond the Gates of Antares is all about their conflicts. “Yesterday’s Battlefield” is about one such explorer who transits a gate to an unknown star and bites off more than he can chew.
Thank you to ZMOK Books for publishing my story, and thank you also to Rick Priestley for conjuring up such an extraordinary universe in which to set it.

I have added again to the non-bellicose corpus of my written work! In plain English, my latest material isn’t about war. So yes, there is a Softer Side of Marc! Check it out in All About History’s latest bookazine, Book of Ancient Greece. What is a bookazine you ask? Wait, you didn’t ask? Well, I’m going to tell you anyway. Imagine a very beefy magazine with a square binding. Bookazines are softcover special issues, so they go into greater depth on a particular subject than would otherwise be the case in a regular, slenderer, monthly issue. My own contributions in this particular publication are in realm of Ancient Greek mythology and religion, and include: The Greeks and their Religion; The Gods Themselves; and The Twelve Olympians. If you find yourself in a bookstore soon, please give it a look. It will be on the magazine rack.