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Congratulations, Interesting Post, and One Other Thing

First, I’d like to offer a rather delayed congratulations to Deborah Blake, frequent commenter and occasional reviewer here, for signing with an agent! We have a lot of aspiring authors hanging out here, and it’s wonderful to see when they hit a milestone like this. It makes the rest of us think, yes, we can [...]

Elder Scrolls Matchup: Morrowind vs. Oblivion

Elder Scrolls
Morrowind and Oblivion
Bethesda Softworks

I’ve been a fan of the Elder Scrolls computer game series since the days of Daggarfall. I love the single-player role playing game because it seems like in multiplayer games, you’re limited to games like Diablo, which to me seem nothing but hack and slash.

My husband and I both [...]

Recent General Fiction Debuts

If You Follow Me: A Novel
by Malena Watrous
Harper Perennial
Trade Paperback – $14.99/$16.99 Can.
General Fiction

Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father’s suicide, Marina, a recent college graduate, has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon [...]

Giveaway – Spellwright by Blake Charlton!

Tor has offered to give away a copy of Spellwright by Blake Charlton, which Superwench reviewed (and loved!) below. To enter, either:

leave a comment (making sure you enter your accurate email address), or
send me an email to tia dot nevitt at gmail dot com. If you email me, please also include [...]

Debut Review: The River Kings’ Road

The River Kings’ Road
by Liane Merciel
Gallery Books
Hardcover – $26

I was excited to hear about Liane Merciel’s The River Kings’ Road because it has been a while since I’ve seen any debut epic fantasies by women.

The River Kings’ Road centers around a handful of characters. Brys is a mercenary, mostly motivated by his own self-interest, but [...]

Cool – Epic Fantasies by Women! Plus More Debuts!

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemisin
Orbit Books
Trade Paperback – $13.99
Epic Fantasy

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky – a palace above the clouds where gods’ and mortals’ lives are intertwined.

There, to her shock, Yeine is [...]

Guest Post: Part 2: A Manifesto of Imaginative Literature by Justin Allen

For the Love of Pete, Don’t Mix Your Genres;
Or… The New York Times Book Review Hates YOU, but I Don’t;
Or… Why Where Your Book Gets Shelved Determines Your Intelligence, Work-Ethic and Value to Society

- Read Part 1 at SFSignal -

Part 2: The New York Times Book Review Hates YOU, [...]

Upcoming This Week, Plus some Kudos

I’m back in full blogging mode again this week, after reading a novel, getting most of a Debut Showcase prepped and arranging for an author guest post. So all of that is coming this week, plus I’ll reveal the source of a recent distraction.

I want to send some kudos to Angry Robot Books. They have [...]

Welcome Online Writing Workshop Visitors!

I just wanted to welcome everyone here who is visiting from the Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Have a look around. It’s a good time to visit, because I just got my logos in place. I’m still tinkering with the color scheme, because it’s a bit . . . well . [...]

Two eBook Reviews

I’ve read two ebooks recently. This isn’t something I usually do, but I did want to try out the experience. Neither of these authors expected a review when I began reading. I don’t normally do reviews of ebooks, and that hasn’t changed, for now, because I still don’t have an ideal reader.

Here are short reviews [...]

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