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Bookshelf: Echoes of a Shattered Age
What if the best Saturday morning cartoons of the ‘80s had starred Toshiro Mifune? What if the enemies in The Seven Samurai had been demons summoned from the deepest, foulest pits of hell — and one of the Samurai was … Continue reading
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Tagged Demons, High Fantasy, Kung Fu, Ninja, R.J. Terrell, Samurai, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Toshiro Mifune, Wordfire Press
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For Dan Wells
…and other readers of historical fiction, a list of some of my favorites, in alphabetical order. Where I recommend the first book (marked with an asterisk), you should understand that I’m recommending the series. (Dan may have read some of … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Beasts of Tabat
Cat Rambo’s Tabat is a fantasy steampunk city riven with tensions. In the annual hieratic gladiatorial contests, Winter has had a long winning streak, and the city’s folk are tired of short springs. The Duke’s ancestor promised a democracy after … Continue reading
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Tagged Beasts of Tabat, Cat Rambo, Steampunk, Wordfire Press
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Why Should You Read Crecheling?
Because Elon Musk and Steven Wozniak BOTH think it’s our future.
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Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Crecheling, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak
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One Day Late
Yesterday was International Women’s Day. Emily celebrated this on time with a fast and an interfaith service, but I was under a deadline, so I forced the kids to dilute their video games and Netflix watching with some reading and … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Five Out of the Dark
The high concept pitch for these books is as easy as it is exciting: Five is Harry Potter meets Twilight, set against the mythos of the Dresden Files. Paige is a preacher’s daughter who accidentally discovers her own magical powers … Continue reading
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Tagged Dresden Files, Fantasy, Harry Potter, Holli Anderson, J.K. Rowling, Jim Butcher, Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, Young Adult
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Bookshelf: The Rifts of Rime
Warrior squirrels. Uncertain borders. Scholars studying the language of ants. Officialdom rewriting ancient scripture to conform to new doctrine. Blasphemous wolves. Squirrel poetics versus marmot rhetoric, and the value of structure. A murdered prophet. An insecure poet. An ambitious leader, … Continue reading
Twisted
The Victorians took photographs of the recently dead. Dressed ’em up nice, posed ’em on chairs or in coffins or surrounded by the living. That fact plays a role in Michaelbrent Collings’s most recent, Twisted. And it’s the least creepy … Continue reading
Artisan Publishing
Deren Hansen undersells the breadth and power of his book Artisan Publishing: Why to Choose the Road Less Traveled, claiming it’s a “why-to” rather than a “how-to” book. The truth is that the book fills both roles, and more besides. … Continue reading
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Tagged Artisan Publishing, Deren Hansen, Self-Promotion, Self-Publishing
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My Favorite Romance Novels
For serious. I didn’t realize when I started reading the Lymond Chronicles (Book One is The Game of Kings) how much heartfelt self-denial and doomed romance I was getting in for, but it’s there. On some level, and almost from … Continue reading
