🏆⚔️ THE KNIGHTS WITH NO LORDS IS OFFICIALLY AN AWARD-WINNING NOVEL! I have an announcement to make!
My novel, The Knights with No Lords: The One Called Gawain, has been recognized as a 2026 PenCraft Book Award Winner, receiving 2nd Place in Fiction – Historical Fantasy.
It’s an incredible honor, and one we’re proud to share with the readers who’ve followed Gawain’s adventures and helped introduce this story to the world.
And for those of you discovering The Knights with No Lords for the first time, WELCOME!
Last month, I entered The Knights with No Lords: The One Called Gawain into the Reader Views Literary Awards. The entry included a professional review of the novel, and when the email arrived with the results, I almost didn’t want to believe what I was seeing. Five Stars Baby!!!
The reviewer called the novel:
⚔️ “A modern masterpiece.”
⚔️ “The most glorious prose.”
⚔️ A book with battle scenes written with “a precision rarely seen.”
And then came the line that absolutely floored me:
“Chances are, this will be the best fantasy book you read this year.”
It’s really unfortunate, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt this way before.
You ever look forward to something for a long time, only to slowly watch that excitement turn into concern? Then concern turns into dread? Then dread turns into, “You know what? I don’t think I can support this.”
That’s where I am with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
For those who don’t know, Christopher Nolan — the director behind The Dark Knight, Inception, and Oppenheimer — is releasing a film adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey.
Just hearing that alone should be enough to build excitement.
The story of The Odyssey is already epic. You have Odysseus, king of Ithaca, trying to return home after the Trojan War. You have monsters, gods, temptation, shipwrecks, death, longing, loyalty, wisdom, and the brutal cost of survival. Combine that with the director of The Dark Knight and Oppenheimer, and it sounds like a no-brainer.
It sounds like, “Shut up and take my money.”
But then, little by little, you start hearing about the choices being made. The smile fades. The excitement dampens. Interest turns into disgust. Anticipation turns into apprehension.
Critical Drinker’s video about Disney’s “the Acolyte” was really impressive in so many ways. I don’t know if he’s Christian or not, but this guy definitely understands what’s happening.
In the video, Critical Drinker, a well-respected writer and film critic with over a million subscribers, questions Hollywood’s direction with their recent slew of movies. He asks:
“Why are they trying to dupe people into thinking that nothing is intrinsically good or bad, that morality and objective reality don’t actually exist, and everything comes down to what you personally feel? It’s almost like once you stop people from believing in anything, then they’ll eventually come to accept everything.”
Here, we sit down for a candid interview with the Author of a provocative action thriller called “The Perennial War of Paramours”.
Based in the Tampa Bay Area, Rock Kitaro reveals his inspiration for the story, how the culture of 2017 shaped his ideas, and a little bit about his background as author. It was really interesting to see how he started out as a Screenwriter and carried what he learned in the film industry over to the Publishing industry. Check him out!
