Justinian's Torch follows Cillian in his third summer in Caledonia at the northern end of Britannia with the army of Belisarius. Two years earlier, Emperor Justinian sent Belisarius to conquer the Caledonii [Picts], something no Roman had ever done. But as the army approached Caledonia, the Erunai [Irish] of Dalriada—an Eruain colony on Caledonia's west coast—attacked both the Caledonii and Romans. In response, the Romans and Caledonii allied and have pushed the Dalriadae back into their h...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written. Other OPL groups exist, often with different models, however SCWG has found its model has worked to the extent thatwe've been in "business" for several years. Also, despite increasing our membership to 25, the OPL still has to maintain a waiting list!We are: poets, scholars, rogu...

This is the first book of a new genre, Gaspunk, stories that are set in a 6th century Roman Empire that has airships and other advances in technology. This series, The Roman Sky, is about Cillian, a Roman soldier from a Gael-Goth family who seeks his destiny on the airships of an Airborne Legion. This story, Empire's Gate, follows Cillian as he joins the Airborne, fights his first battles, and learns that enemy airships and armies are not the only threat he faces.

Despite the trauma of battles that haunt him and an estranged family he struggles to accept, James Butler tries to do what is right, find love, and make his own way in the world. By saving one life, James takes history down a different path from ours. By following his premonitions, he will shape the events of this war, the lives of millions, and the map of a continent as the winter edges into 1813.

Inspired by real events, this is the story of sixteen-year-old Angel-of-Death and ten-year-old No-Mercy, child-rebels who were forced to fight for the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone. As the war nears its end in 2001, they are separated. They had wanted to stop fighting and live together as sisters, but now they must fight the rebels they had served, fight the agencies that would separate them forever, and fight the child traffickers who pursue them. Is this what peace was?

James Butler and George Macdonald are on opposite sides of the War of 1812 and a family division that goes back to the War of Independence. James serves General Sir Isaac Brock and George serves General William Harrison. General Brock's army is stretched between General Harrison's and General Dearborn's. Before the summer campaigns start both sides must deal with what the spring of 1813 brings.

Stung by his defeats at Dara and Satala last year, King Cavad sends an army to conquer Gothic Armenia. Emperor Justinian sends a Roman Army to help the Goths stop the Persians. Dux Bouzes is left behind with a small force to shield Roman Armenia from a possible, but unlikely Persian invasion. He has a few legions and a 'war flock' of airships. In that war flock is Cillian. With only a year's experience on airships he has a lot to learn about them and about being a tent group commander. Wha...

A dozen years ago, as the war in Sierra Leone was ending and their Small Girl Unit destroyed, Angel-of-Death and No-Mercy escaped from the rebels who had forced them to fight and commit atrocities. These former child-soldiers became Angel and Mercy, young women with careers, but without histories or families. Their hidden past and hopeful future begin to unravel when they are called upon to help contain the Ebola outbreak. As the Ebola Crisis deepens, Angel and Mercy will confront other th...

Emperor Justinian has sent Belisarius to Britannia to do what no one has ever done—conquer the Picts. The army that gathers at Hadrian's Wall includes an airship legion. One of those airships and its sagittarii, who fight as archers in the sky and as soldiers on the ground, are commanded by Cillian. His concerns about the campaign, his airship, and his destiny are about to be overtaken by a hidden past revealed. To reach the Picts, Belisarius's army must cross over the ruins of another wal...

Empire's Victory is the third book of the Roman Sky series that follows Cillian, a young Roman with Gael-Goth roots, as he rises up the ranks of an airborne legion in a sixth century Roman Empire that has airships. Cillian now commands an airship, its crew, and the soldier-archers it carries. After two years of battling Persians in the east, the legion is sent west and stops at Constantinople for inspections and refits. While there, Cillian is to be celebrated by Emperor Justinian for savi...

Emperor Justinian has ordered a halt to Belisarius's campaign against the Scots of Dalriada on the west coast of Caledonia, the homeland of the Caledonii, their new allies, although most Romans still refer to them as the Picts. Instead, the Romans must help the Caledonii defend the east coast against an invasion by Germania and Scandia. But when and where will their longships land? Belisarius's army, including the airships of the 4th Airborne Legion, must spread out along the threatened sh...

The Stittsville Creative Writing Group is a program of the Ottawa Public Library. The group meets every Thursday at the Stittsville branch for approximately an hour to read pieces they have written.We are: poets, scholars, rogue scholars, authors, and audacious amateurs taking their first steps into group sharing and into the published world. There are those who mostly listen rather than write, those who write prolifically but only share with the group and published writers.These are our s...