John Cressler
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John D. Cressler is Ken Byers Professor at Georgia Tech, in Atlanta, Georgia and an author of both fiction and non-fiction. His debut novel, Emeralds of the Alhambra, an interfaith love story set in fourteenth century Muslim Spain, will be released by Sunbury Press in June of 2013.
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Review of Emeralds by Jani Brooks for Romance Reviews Today
It fascinates me that fiction authors really never know which, if any, of the established “review houses” will actually review their work. You send in the bound galley proofs to a couple of dozen houses, cross your fingers, and then…wait…and wait…and wait some more. Either the reviews show up unannounced…or…
Review of Cressler’s Emeralds of the Alhambra
Having just come to the end of the review cycle by the endorsers of Emeralds of the Alhambra, I have discovered something new in the process. Placing your ‘baby’ into the hands of a diverse set of very well-known people can be incredibly anxiety producing! Thankfully, the results have been truly…
A Visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba
The Great Mosque of Córdoba (la Mezquita), together with the Alhambra Palace in Granada, are the most important architectural legacies of medieval al-Andalus. The Great Mosque was constructed between 785 and 987 C.E. and even today remains one of the largest mosques ever constructed. Its distinctive red-and-white double horseshoe columns…