On the YA fantasy front, author Rosamund Hodge has been making quite a splash with her moody, dark, intensely atmospheric reworkings of myths and fairy tales. So when I had the chance to review this collection, Desires and Dreams and … Continue reading
High Stakes Trial by Mindy Klasky Vampires, sphinxes, a love triangle, and cupcakes–all against the backdrop of Washington, DC! Sarah Anderson’s dream job at the vampire night court is turning into a nightmare. Working as the court clerk used to … Continue reading
What if the name hadn’t been “James Bond”? What if the name Ian Fleming gave his super spy had been “Crane, Ichabod Crane?”
Continue readingNew Worlds, Year Two: More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding by Marie Brennan Explore a world of your own . . . Science fiction and fantasy are renowned for immersing their readers in rich, inventive settings. In this follow-up … Continue reading
When I was a kid, shopping for books was exciting. I loved to browse the shelves (mostly in Science Fiction and Fantasy, but sometimes in Mystery and sometimes in the confusing tangle that was Fiction and rarely, very rarely, in … Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke posited long ago that any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I’d like to turn that aphorism on its head and suggest that any significantly advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. Simply put, the magic of … Continue reading
Visit an American West that never was! A brand-new novella and collected short stories will take you on a journey through the magical frontier known as the Devil’s West…
From the bestselling, award-nominated world of SILVER ON THE ROAD, THE COLD EYE, and RED WATERS RISING
Continue readingMy book, Putting the Fun in Funeral, came out earlier this month. It’s one I enjoyed writing quite a bit. It made me laugh a lot. That was a relief, at the time of writing. I used the novel as … Continue reading
Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother–enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she’s ever known.
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