Update: From Mountains of Ice

My latest novel, From Mountains of Ice, is now out for comment from a few trusted colleagues whose opinions I value. This is the first new novel I've written since the early '90s, and one about which I'm very excited.

I suppose it was a rediscovery of my own roots that led me to set the novel loosely in an Italian Renaissance world, although there are definite ancient Roman and Byzantine influences there as well.

Along the way I discovered the cucullati, which are iconographic hooded figures, fo