- Dec 12, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: Tigana, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay’s Tigana is the best-written fantasy I’ve read in a while. It wasn’t just the prose that got me (although Kay’s phrasing...
- Nov 2, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
It’s hard to do better than Naomi Novik when you want a good historical fantasy. Spinning Silver, her latest offering, is a riff on...
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
New Release: Knee-Deep in Grit
Like Game of Thrones? Then you should check out Knee-Deep in Grit, a compilation of Grimdark Magazine's first two years of fiction....
- Aug 6, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: Assassin's Quest, by Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Quest marks the end of what has become one of my favorite fantasy trilogies. The story picks up where the second...
- Jul 10, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: Royal Assassin, by Robin Hobb
I still can’t put my finger on why I like Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy so much. Sure, the magic system is fun. In Royal Assassin, the...
- Jun 2, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: Assassin's Apprentice, by Robin Hobb
What if names were designed to be destiny, determining which traits people had and how they acted? And what if you didn’t have a name,...
- Apr 7, 2018
- 2 min
Book Review: The Girl with Ghost Eyes, by M. H. Boroson
The Girl with Ghost Eyes might be the first cultural fantasy I’ve read. M. H. Boroson’s novel is packed with plenty of history too. The...
- Mar 14, 2018
- 4 min
Book Review: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King
And so at last we come to The Dark Tower, the final book in Stephen King’s series of the same name (the long tale he’s said is his Lord...
- Feb 24, 2018
- 4 min
New Release: The Battle Dancer
The Battle Dancer is out! It's a quick read—only 14,000 words or so. The first scene is below. Enjoy! ---- As recently as six months...
- Jan 17, 2018
- 1 min
Pre-order: The Battle Dancer
My novella The Battle Dancer is available for pre-order! It's a bit of an odd bird—I built it from some of the 70,000 or so words I cut...
