Everyone needs a hobby.  Mine is (among other things) collecting fiction about Alexander the Great.  When back in '96, I found no comprehensive catalogue of Alexander novels on the net, I created one, with summaries-reviews of works with which I was familiar.  Over time, the site grew more complex and the list grew to include non-English novels, and even a few reviews from others.

Since, in the world of the internet, putting up a webpage is open to anyone with a computer and html editor, it's useful to know a bit about the person behind the commentary, in order to better evaluate his or her remarks.  Therefore, in brief, I hold a Ph.D in ancient history from Penn State University, specialization in Macedonia, Alexander the Great, and ancient Greece -- the last thesis directed E. N. Borza (In the Shadow of Olympus), and I'm now an assistant professor.  I've presented or will present papers at annual meetings of the American Philological Association (APA) and Association of Ancient Historians (AAH), Waldemar Heckel's ATG conference in Calgary, Classical Association of Atlantic States (CAAS), and The Missouri Valley History Conference (MVHC).  I have articles about ATG in or coming from Amphora, The Ancient History Bulletin, The Ancient World, Syllecta Classica, and an article that's particularly relevant to this site forthcoming, "Alexander as Icon: Some Socio-Political Contexts of Alexander the Great in Twentieth-Century Fiction," Alexander's Empire: From Formulation to Decay, Waldemar Heckel and P. V. Wheatley, eds (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006).  Furthermore, I've read and edited for various published friends who write fiction, and write fiction myself, with an undergraduate degree in English, creative writing.  Thus, when reading fiction on Alexander, I bring together these two backgrounds, as literati and historian.