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ETWYRT: Mackey Chandler
Mirror-posted from The Otherwhere Gazette I’ve had the pleasure over the last couple of years of reading Mac Chandler’s two series, and watching him grow by leaps and bounds as an author. While April, his debut novel, was a very strong story with a terrific female lead who… well, I suggest you read it. It…
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Bonnet’s Books
Or, why I love used bookstores and exploring my new home state… We were in Dayton yesterday evening for a meet-up with friends. As the evening of beer tasting, food, cigars and tall tales went on, I excused myself and slipped off on a little errand of my own. I’d been in Bonnet’s Books once…
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Review: Mercy Thompson
I’ll be putting up two reviews today, so look out for one this afternoon. This morning, you get a review not of a single book, but a whole series. Someone over at According to Hoyt (who I don’t recall a name for, sadly) suggested that I might like this Urban fantasy series. I picked up…
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Free Story! Get your copy now…
The story Sugar Skull will be free from May 1 to 4. Grab a copy, and tell your friends! If you enjoyed it, don’t forget to tip your author and leave a review. You don’t have to have an e-reader, you can read it for free online as well. Thanks!
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Writer’s Heaven
No, I don’t mean haven, I really do mean heaven. I was reading James Schmitz last night and this morning. One of the things about reading with my tablet is that when I want to read in a dark room, I can. And then when I wake up but don’t have to get right out…
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Literary Criticism
I do reviews on this blog, sometimes meh, rarely AUGH get it out of my brain!! and mostly good. I will never rise to the level Mark Twain did, in his masterful critique of James Fenimore Cooper… I’m sharing parts of it (and you can find it in whole here, and to download free here)…
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Damsels in Distress?
How about Damsels who can’t be bothered with Distress? Death before Whining! This started out as a spark off Tom Knighton’s post at According to Hoyt the other day. He wrote: “I don’t recall exactly who, but one of the better known authors of our genre once claimed that all people like me wanted in…
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Review: One of Each
I got two new books in this last week, and I managed to read them both. One fiction, and one non-fiction. Being sick helped with the reading, for a little silver lining in a cloud. I read book #6 in the Ongoing April series by Mackey Chandler. I have enjoyed this series from the first…
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Cop Tales: Three Reviews
One of the fun things about having Kindle Unlimited is that I can test a new author without too much commitment. And on days when I’m feeling under the weather, a disposable book I don’t have to think about is handy, and convenient if I’m not at home with my library. So I wound up…
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The Starter List of Science Fantasy
Over at the Mad Genius Club I talk about what Science Fantasy is, as a subgenre of science fiction. Where science and magic exist on the same plane, stories that stretch the imagination are born. If you haven’t read any, this is a good place to start. If you love the genre already, then perhaps…
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Review: Predatory Practices
One of the nice things about going to cons, I’ve discovered, is that you meet people. Sometimes they turn out to be really funny, nice people who also can write very well. I’m fascinated by today’s example, because he grew up with a great SFF writer for a parent. Edward Stasheff’s father, Christopher, wrote many…
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The Great Big Handy-Dandy MHI Group Book List
So you have read everything Larry Correia ever wrote, and you are jonesing for a good book while he’s working on the next one. Well, if you ask in the Monster Hunter International group, this is the list you will get of authors, books, series, and sundry suggestions. I have cleaned it up very little,…