Most published authors field questions from new and aspiring writers at some point in their careers. They wonder how to get published, who to schmooze and, if they’re really serious, they ask questions about craft and style and substance. More … Continue reading
In this sensational sequel to The Woman In White, Marian uses all the wits and wiles she learned then to save her husband Theo Camlet from charges of bigamy and then murder. Women are supposed to be rescued in her world, but Marian fights to rescue everything she loves: her husband and her happiness.
Continue readingConfessions of a Siren Singer Artistic Demons 3 by Irene Radford Can a Siren switch from luring men to their deaths to healing the world before the International Guild of Demon and Vampire Hunters comes down on her pretty head? … Continue reading
In my own particular mental map of the modern novel’s river, the watershed is Jane Austen. Her books were romantic, but she was not writing romance as it later came to be understood. Romance in the early sense could be … Continue reading
In a violent new America infested with disease and mutated creatures, Michael, an eleven-year old orphan, and Jacki, a sophisticated, intelligent, articulate elephant, set out on a journey of discovery and survival through the post-apocalyptic ruins. It means facing out of control agribots, bioengineered lily pads, crocodiles, and bad men with guns.
Michael can hardly wait.
Continue readingThese days there has been a lot of talk about daring narrative voices and experimental playing with fiction and truth (as in real life experience, to skirt around the gigantic elephant of what constitutes “truth”), and it’s great that more … Continue reading
ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN: Maid Marian Strong women who are ready to defend themselves and their loved ones with mannish weapons are often called Amazons. Or a virago. In modern literature we call them kick-ass heroines. Enter Maid … Continue reading
The Were Chronicles by Alma Alexander “Everything I knew about the Were was wrong” A Were of no fixed form, a Random, able to Turn into any warm-blooded creature it sees… a young Random whose failure to Turn forces him … Continue reading
Deja Vu Halloo Reeves & Worcester Steampunk Mysteries 5 by Chris Dolley It’s Groundhog Day, 1906. February 2nd is stuck on repeat, and only our intrepid trio appear to have noticed. Emmeline senses the meddling of a higher power – … Continue reading
She was born on the banks of the blue Danube in a country whose name is but a memory. She left that home at ten, and lived in five countries on four continents before setting up shop in cyberspace. When asked about her life, all she will say is that she was born six years before men walked on the moon, and is married to a man who wooed her in cyberspace and lured her to America. But if you want to know about Alma Alexander’s stories, ah, that’s something else entirely.
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