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Bookshelf: Death Has Come up into Our Windows
Stant Litore’s Zombie Bible is ancient Israelite history, with zombies. Stant’s academic background give these stories deep and sometimes mischievous resonance; his storytelling skills give them vivid human depth. Death Has Come up into Our Windows is the first in … Continue reading
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Tagged Death Has Come up into Our Windows, Jeremiah, Stant Litore, The Zombie Bible
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Serpentspawn Depredations
SERPENTSPAWN DEPREDATIONS ~ The Pacification of the Ohio Continues ~ Cahokia. Good men and true in the service of HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, THE EMPEROR THOMAS PENN, are murdered! Honest men have died with their throats cut in their sleep!! their … Continue reading
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Tagged The Emperor Thomas Penn, The Pacification of the Ohio, Witchy Eye
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Bookshelf: Helen & Troy’s Epic Road Quest
Helen & Troy’s Epic Road Quest is Percy Jackson written for adults with ironic senses of humor. Helen is a minotauress, with the usual challenges: she’s big, she’s awkward, she breaks things, she sheds. Troy is her annoyingly perfect (although, … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Lee Martinez, Bob Dylan, Helen & Troy's Epic Road Quest, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan
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Bookshelf: Finn Fancy Necromancy
Phineas “Finn” Gramaraye is released from twenty-five years’ arcane imprisonment in the Other Realm wondering whether his subscription to Columbia Records’s tape-buying program has continued, and he now owes the company ten thousand dollars. An immediate attack from an antagonist … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, Addams Family, Dresden Files, Finn Fancy Necromany, Jim Butcher, Randy Henderson
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Witchy Eye: Calvin Was a Corn Reader
“Cal’s already had a ministry of sorts,” Sarah said. “No I ain’t.” “Now you’re jest bein’ modest.” Sarah turned to the monk to explain. “Calvin here was a corn reader.” “Was,” Cal said immediately. “Was a corn reader. I got … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Myth-Fits
The Myth Adventures have always been my comic fantasy of choice**. Discworld and Xanth have their places in my affection, but I always cracked up the most to the adventures of Skeeve, Klahd (human) magician, and Aahz the Perv (that’s Perv-ECT, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Unicorn, Discworld, Hellboy, Jody Lynn Nye, Piers Anthony, Platte F. Clark, Robert Asprin, Terry Pratchett, Xanth
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Bookshelf: The Iron Thane
After the fall of Macbeth (yes, that Macbeth), Scotland is left with a young, conniving, and ineffectual king in the form of young Malcolm. Macduff, the Thane of Fife and man born of no woman, finds himself a relic of … Continue reading
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Tagged Goethe, Jason Henderson, Macbeth, Macduff, Shakespeare, The Iron Thane, Wordfire Press
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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
