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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 [...]

Random Thoughts

This is one of those instances where I’ve been busier behind-the-scenes than up front and center on the blog. As you can see, the logos are done, are in place, and the rest of the site changed to match. Anne had a great idea of having a lighter color on one of the sidebars. I’m [...]

Finished Tinkering

I finally finished tinkering with my layout. As I mentioned in the comments of the post below, I had to turn the header image-handling off in this theme and use a plug-in called Dynamic Headers in order to make it look close to the way I envisioned. I also incorporated my color scheme throughout, but [...]

Experimenting with my Headers

Things might look wonky for a while.

Debut Review – The Manual of Detection

The Manual of Detection
by Jedediah Berry (blog)
Penguin
Hardcover and Trade Paperback

The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berrywill probably end up in my year end “Best Of” list. It was just about perfectly conceived, perfectly executed, perfectly written, and perfectly charming. I’m hard pressed to think of any critiques. It’s that good.

With that said, it’s not for [...]

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