Kastenellos, Paul

Paul Kastenellos is a retired news librarian who now writes fantasy and historical fiction. Since the nineteen-fifties he has studied the medieval Byzantine Empire, successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean. Forty years of abstracting news has provided him with a succinct style of writing which flows smoothly from historical narrative to fantasy; and between the underworld of midtown Manhattan in the nineteen fifties, the golden age of Justinian, and the wars and religious disputes of the late eighth century CE. Paul lives with his wife in upstate New York where they built the...