…truly appreciated is that Dixon was able to depict violence and yet manage to give it the appropriate level of consideration. One of my greatest complaints about THE HUNGER GAMES…
…come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who’s come into some very…
…Lawrence has become one of my favorite authors. His novels are a breath of fresh air, and are an absolute pleasure to read. And so now we come to the…
…of amazing, and adds immensely to the Regency feel Kowal creates. Good fantasy is hard. Good historical fiction (my favorite genre) is hard. Good period fantasy, combining the best of…
…SF/Fantasy/Whatever. It didn’t have to be magic, but I needed something that was contemporary, actiony, and with speculative elements in it. Enter Weston Ochse’s GRUNT LIFE . Ochse is best…
…dead has come with a price. By the time she reaches high school she’s already reaped a thousand souls under her mother’s strict tutelage. But during the summer mom was…
…story, novelette or novella? You’d be surprised at how often they can’t. I’d suggest that writing a novel is a completely different skill-set than that of writing short fiction. So…
…into. After three completely amazing books detailing her adventures (see the list at the end of this post), we now come to KILLING RITES by M.L.N. Hanover (aka Daniel…