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Fellow Blogger Starts Fiction Magazine!

Over the past year and a half or so, I have been watching the efforts of fellow blogger Shaun Duke (of World in a Satin Bag) as he took on an ambitious project: to start a new magazine. Well, his efforts–and those of his fellow editor, Niyousha Bastani–have finally paid off as they have released [...]

Rest in Peace: Bayard, Florida

On the first post of this blog, I said that I would be going off-topic more often, and making this blog a bit more personal. This is the first of such posts. Our family likes to go on road trips and explore historical places. We live in an interesting corner of Florida, where there are [...]

Now Mobile Phone Enabled! Plus, a question.

This site is now mobile-phone enabled!

I don’t expect anyone to use this feature but me, but you can now get a mobile-friendly display of this site through your mobile phone. I need it because I don’t like the idea of my website appearing in my Internet browsing report at work. Therefore, I will be able [...]

Debut Series Review – The Youngest Templar

Keeper of the Grail (Amazon USA – UK – Canada)
by Michael P Spradlin
G. P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin)
Paperback

Wow; this is an exciting series.

Penguin sent me these books over the summer. The second book in The Youngest Templar series, Trail of Fate, was coming out this week, so they thoughtfully sent me the first book, Keeper of [...]

WordPress Advice Needed

Ok, you know how the title of this page is “Tia Nevitt” up there in the heading? I’d really rather it say “Debuts & Reviews” while on this blog page, and say “Tia Nevitt” on every other page. I would also like it to be a clickable link back to Debuts & Reviews, not back [...]

Some Public Thank-Yous

Thank you to everyone who added Debuts & Reviews to your blogrolls and feed readers this week. As of today,, my Feedburner subscription was up to 154, over double was at Fantasy Debut, but still not quite half of what my Google Reader subscription count was, which was pushing 400. My Google Friend Connect subscriptions [...]

Introducting My Cohorts. Plus Some Requests.

You might have noticed that the first two reviews here at Debuts & Reviews were not written by me. I have cohorts!

I have been following Superwench’s blog since 2006, when I “met” her during one of Rachel Vater’s query contests. She is my beta reader, and has read both of my novels (I’m still waiting [...]

Debut Review: The Birthing House

The Birthing House (Amazon USA – UK – Canada)
By Christopher Ransom (US Website, UK Website)
UK Publisher: Little, Brown (Sphere) (Jan. 1, 2009)
USA Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (Aug. 4, 2009)
Hardcover
Excerpt (pdf)
Review copy provided by Little, Brown.

Reviewed by Raven.

I started The Birthing House (debut showcase here) with high hopes. A birthing house, which I had never heard [...]

Debut Showcase: The Windup Girl

The Windup Girl (Amazon USA – UK – Canada)
by Paolo Bacigalupi (website)
Night Shade Books (includes excerpt and stories from the same world)

Hardcover – 24.99

Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature. One of the New People, Emiko is not human; instead, she is an engineered being, creche-grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent [...]

Debut Review: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (Amazon USA – UK – Canada)
by Leanna Renee Hieber (site includes blog and book trailer)
Leisure Books
Mass Market Paperback

Reviewed by Superwench83

Blurb
What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Considering how few of Queen Victoria’s Londoners knew of it, the great Romanesque fortress was dreadfully imposing, and [...]

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