Chris Schweizer's Old Blog

I recently discovered the Thibaut Corday stories of Theodore Roscoe through the excellent Altus Press reprint collections (I got ...

Here's a picture of Sailor Steve Costigan, a character featured in a bunch of short stories by Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. H...

The Granada TV adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories (1984-1994) are many people's favorites, and though no adaptation has entirel...

829 years ago today, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem succumbed to the leprosy that had afflicted him since childhood. Despite being almost cripple...

I got an ask about agents and their relationship to the pitch process, but it's a broad topic and one I've been wanting to address ...

Queen Elizabeth I, giving her rousing pre-battle speech.  Because it's "Q" week for Penny, and because Elizabeth is the tops. ...

Here’s the next “reveal” for one of the pairs in the new, more complete Crogan family tree: Martin Crogan and Ramona Jinner, circa 15...

I did this piece for the Sakai Project, a book honoring the work of master cartoonist Stan Sakai and his most famous creation Usagi Yojimbo ...

I’ve been working my way back down the Crogan family tree for years now, finding out fascinating tidbits about history as I go.   I’ve gott...

In the 1850s, the US army brought over around seventy camels for use in patrolling the Southwest's desert country.  The camel corps was ...