Book Review: And I Darken, by Kiersten White
And I Darken is the perfect title for Kiersten White’s novel about Vlad the Impaler’s origins. The plot (eventually) focuses on...
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New Release: The Red Wraith Is Available in Print!
Hi everyone, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and gained less weight than I did:) Just wanted to let you know that Edge Science...
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Book Review: 1493, by Charles Mann
“Columbus’s voyage did not mark the discovery of a new world, but its creation.” So claims Charles Mann in his impressive 1493:...
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Book Review: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass, the fourth installment in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, might have the strangest structure of any novel I’ve read....
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Book Review: Ghost Talkers, by Mary Robinette Kowal
All too often, soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice. But what if death didn’t relieve them of their duties? What if the fallen still had...
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TV: Why I'm Done with The Walking Dead
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan (Credit: Gene Page/AMC) The Walking Dead used to be thrilling. It wasn’t “good” TV, but the show generated a...
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Book Review: Save the Cat, by Blake Snyder
It’s tempting to say the best thing about Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat! is the title. (And the cover—don’t let go, kitty! HOLD ON!) But...
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Book Review: The Glass Magician, by Charlie Holmberg
Like its predecessor The Paper Magician, Charlie Holmberg’s The Glass Magician is crisp, creative, and vaguely unsatisfying. Ceony, the...
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Book Review: The Waste Lands, by Stephen King
The Dark Tower series, as Stephen King explained in his introduction to its first book, The Gunslinger, is essentially his Lord of the...
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Book Review: League of Dragons, by Naomi Novik
What happens when you take Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and grant his ship thoughts, wings, and the ability to breathe sonic waves? You...
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Writing Tips: Plotting Your Pants (Wait, That Sounds Bad…)
Here's the text of a post Janice Hardy kindly allowed me to make on her excellent Fiction University site: Some authors plot their novels...
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Book Review: The Paper Magician, by Charlie Holmberg
For a book that clocks in at only 226 pages, Charlie Holmberg’s The Paper Magician sure delves into a lot of backstory. Stranger still,...
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