by Brock Meier | May 28, 2025 | history, Nabataea, News, Writing
Brock Meier releases a new short story It has been a very long time (far too long!) since this blog has been updated, but Brock Meier has been at work on a number of fronts. The first news is that he is on the verge of releasing a brand new short story for his...
by Brock Meier | Jun 20, 2024 | Books, history, News
Audio interviews with The Stone Cutter characters Our interviewer Jelani recently sat down with ten of the characters from Brock Meier’s novel of Petra, The Stone Cutter, and asked them about their lives. The interviews exposed information not directly revealed...
by Brock Meier | Oct 5, 2023 | Arts, history, Nabataea
Inscribed in stone The Nabataeans are famously known today for their carved-stone memorial tombs in the ancient city of Petra, or as they named it—Raqmu. Each year, around a million people travel to Raqmu/Petra (named as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World), to...
by Brock Meier | May 9, 2023 | history, Nabataea, News
Loving Petra to death When will Petra disappear? In 1000 years? Or maybe 10? Nearly a million tourists a year—two million hands and two million feet—roam over one of the New Seven Wonders of the World—and World Heritage Site—the ancient city of Petra. They come...
by Brock Meier | Jan 21, 2023 | history, Nabataea, Writing
Allure of the Short Story I haven’t written a short story in quite some time. My last efforts toward such resulted in the collection I am tentatively calling “She Knew She Could Fly” (perhaps to be published down the road). I intended to intertwine a dozen (or more as...
by Brock Meier | Nov 29, 2022 | history, Writing
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”—C. S. Lewis, in “Till We Have Faces” A Story In the late 1970s, I first read the ancient account of a man tormented by demons and then delivered from their influence on the shores of Lake Kinneret. The story...