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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Witchy Eye: Iron Andy’s Reputation
“I ain’t afraid. I jest don’t relish gittin’ my tongue cut out, and havin’ my fingernails torn off, and bein’ hung from a tree by my own guts. They say he crucified people in the Ohio Forks War. They say … Continue reading
Witchy Eye: Real-World Christian Grimoires
One of the fun things about writing my epic blackpowder fantasy WITCHY EYE (Baen, forthcoming) and now its first sequel (WITCHY WINTER) has been exploring real-world ideas about magic. It turns out, for instance, that right into the nineteenth century … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Christian Magic, Francis Barrett, Grimoires, Johann George Hohman, The Long-Lost Friend, The Magus, Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter
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Bookshelf: It Came from the Great Salt Lake
Anthologies generally don’t make a writer lots of money. Instead, their best functions are networking, marketing, and validation. Participation in an anthology introduces you to the writers and editors involved. It can also introduce your work to the readers of other … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Duskfall
Winter’s wedding to the mysterious refugee Knot is hard enough for the fact that she’s marrying a human, rather than a fellow elf. When the ceremony is interrupted by the irruption of a gang of thugs, Winter’s marriage and her … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Husberg, Dark Fantasy, Duskfall, Fantasy, Titan
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Bookshelf: Sleeper Protocol
The subject wakes up. He doesn’t remember, but he dreams, and in his dreams he’s a soldier. He reacts to certain situations and objects with the instincts of a soldier, too. When the hospital releases him on walkabout, he travels … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Blood Song
Celia Graves is a bodyguard to the rich, famous, eccentric, and decadent, so there’s nothing obviously unusual about her guarding Prince Rezza of Rusland–a small, independent, eastern European country important for its natural gas reserves. Until, that is, when in … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Song, Cat Adams, Cathy Clamp, Cie Adams, Paranormal, Tor, Urban Fantasy
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Cap and Ball
This last Sunday I was in Denver and my friend Mario offered to take me shooting. He was too kind to say this, but I think he’d read some of my stories with cap and ball pistols in them (THE … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Death by Cliché
Bob Defendi appears in this book as the source of its epigrammatic chapter headings (“Please. Not another chapter quote.” — Bob Defendi) and also as its protagonist, Bob Damico. For good measure, Death by Cliché features his character sheet and … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Blood Curse
Blood Curse opens on the same brutal ground as the first book of Jake Lasater’s adventures, Blood Ties — in Jake’s origin story. In Blood Ties we saw him obey his pointless order to sacrifice his life and his men’s … Continue reading
Seven Days of Trumpets
THE KIDNAP PLOT releases today. For the next seven days, you’ll see me posting 3+ times a day about the book. I PROMISE, after a week, I’ll taper off. And I’ll try to share things in the posts — reviews, … Continue reading
