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Davide Mana’s Behind the Copper Mask

11 Saturday Nov 2017

Posted by la Clarina in Stories

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Davide Mana, Halloween story, Karavansara, masks, subtle horror, theatre

Do you remember when I told you about my copper mask – oh well, the Chorus’ copper mask in Shakespeare in Words? And how my friend Davide – he of Karavansara – said there was a story in there, and he’d write it for Halloween?

Well, he’s done it.

Not that I’m terribly surprised, mind: the man has proved again and again that he can put together a good story by whatever deadline he gives himself – and so a Halloween story it was… Continue reading →

RE:CON

02 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Things

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Alessandro Mana, content editing, Davide Mana, fact-checking, RE:CON Service, research

ResearchAh, the joys and sorrows of research…

We all know how it goes. A story – be it a trilogy of door-stoppers, a play or a tiny short – is a world, and, to misquote Benedick, the world must be researched. And you can not find the stuff you need, or you can find too much and get lost in the meanders of it, or you can think you found the right stuff – and painfully discover later that you didn’t… Continue reading →

Here comes Hope & Glory

07 Thursday Jul 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Things

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adventure, alternate history, Davide Mana, GG Studio, Hope and Glory, Role Playing Game, Savage Worlds, Short Stories, steampunk

H&G

Alberto Bontempi

And today for something different – as in no theatre and no Elizabethana…

Hope and Glory is a role-playing game setting for Savage Worlds – but also a collection of stories set in what will be the game’s world.

What world, you ask? Continue reading →

A Gladius by Any Other Name?

06 Saturday Sep 2014

Posted by la Clarina in History

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Aculeo & Amunet, Davide Mana, Historical fiction, Karavansara, Lindybeige, Schola gladiatoria, Skallagrim

gladius-training-sword-largeThis is from Karavansara, my friend Davide Mana’s great blog of pulp and historical adventure, with an Asian slant. It’s not for nothing that Davide subtitled the thing “East of Constantinople, West of Shangai.”

While doing research for his wonderful Aculeo and Amunet stories (check them out, if you’ve never read them), he stumbled across some great video resources about ancient weaponry, and collected a few in this post.

When you are writing historical fiction (or historical adventure), you never have enough of this sort of things – because it’s damnably easy to mess up… And of course, a novel is a novel, and not a treatise on ancient hoplology – but it’s so much better if, while providing great characters engaged in interesting action and meaningful stories, you also get your swords right, isn’t it?

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