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Monthly Archives: October 2015
Bookshelf: Sonya Fletcher
Happy Halloween! For the holiday, I want to tell you about a series that’s one part Monster Hunters International, one part Supernatural, and one part Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is the tale of Sonya Fletcher, whose origins are shrouded … Continue reading
Badass Russians
“Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.” — Earl Harbinger
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Tagged Earl Harbinger, Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha, Monster Hunter International
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Overrated
I want to be overrated. This thought comes out of a weekend post on social media, in which a writer asked what books of the last thirty years other people had found to be the most overrated. It’s a fair … Continue reading
Posted in Business, How to Write
Tagged Bestsellers, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King
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Greene Cheese
“He that can be persuaded that these things are true, or wrought indeed according to the assertion of couseners, or according to the supposition of witchmongers & papists, may soone be brought to beleeve that the moone is made of … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Airships of Camelot
Airships of Camelot is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan meets The Once and Future King. Like Leviathan, Airships is likely to get called “Steampunk,” though that category fits loosely at best. In some ways, this retelling of the Arthur story has more … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Alyscrai
Steampunk luxuriates in the self-bestowed freedom to mix any influence, aesthetic, period, pseudo-scientific or fantastic element, and literary or historical character it wishes into its brew and distill therefrom a tale. The Alyscrai pushes the envelope in its wide-ranging and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, D.H. Aidan, Dunlith Hill, Steampunk
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A Seelie Witch
“But men in all ages have beene so desirous to know the effect of their purposes, the sequele of things to come, and to see the end of their feare and hope: that a seelie witch, which had learned anie … Continue reading
A Thought for You Creatives
“Men mocked and reproached the lover because he acted like a fool for love’s sake. The lover felt contempt for their mockery, and reproached them in turn for not loving the beloved.” — Ramon Llull, Book of the Lover and … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of the Lover and the Beloved, Mysticism, Ramon Lull, Sufism, Troubadour Poetry
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Bookshelf: Mythos and Cosmos
John Lundwall’s Mythos and Cosmos stands in a line of brilliant and essential books that pierce through the fog of modernity to ask the question: what were our ancestors thinking? In particular, Lundwall examines the connections among mythology, liturgy, and … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Sands
Lhaurel is a young woman of the desert people, the Sidena, who take shelter on stone during the part of the year when the reptilian genesauri rampage on the sands. Lhaurel has always been a bit different — tall, thin, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern, Dune, Frank Herbert, Kevin L. Nielsen, Sands, Young Adult
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