Hello, I’m Nicholas Guild and I'm what I suppose you might call a recovering academic. After earning a Ph.D. in English I taught for seven years before turning full time to writing. I have 15 novels on Amazon, almost all of them originally published commercially. I started out writing thrillers but in recent years have turned more to historical fiction, such as The Assyrian and its sequel The Blood Star, both of which were best sellers in Europe. My most recent publications were, Blood Ties a detective novel, and The Ironsmith, an historical. The Spartan Dagger, another historical, came out in December. Join me on Twitter, or if you just want to shoot the breeze email me at nicholas.guild@gmail.com. I enjoy conversations about literature and writing, both in the abstract and the specific.