Stacking The Shelves is a new weekly meme being hosted by Tynga over at Tynga's Reviews. Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you've added to your shelves - physical and virtual, borrowed and bought. Mailbox Monday, meanwhile, is a similar meme being hosted by Book Journey this month (check out the Mailbox Monday blog to see who's hosting next month).It's been a rough couple of weeks since my e-reader died. I've been...
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that is designed to provide some much-appreciated exposure to the bloggers participating, and to expand their following. Hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read, each of whom feature a chosen blog for the week, it's an interesting way to get to know one another.Question of the Week: What is the BIGGEST word you've seen used in a book lately - that made you stop and look it up?...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution edited by Ann VanderMeerPlayfully mashing up the romantic elegance of the Victorian era with whimsically modernized technology, this entertaining and edgy new anthology is the third installment in a bestselling...
Sunday, 23 September 2012
A welcome throwback to the days of high fantasy - complete with idealized medieval communities, kings and queens, monstrous races, dragons, and magic - Shadows of Kings is a rousing adventure that makes the most of its brevity. Coming in at just under 250 pages, Jack Whitsel's tale engages the reader early on and then manages to sustain the interest (not to mention the pace), until the very end.This is a mature tale, one which doesn't shy...
Friday, 21 September 2012
I'll admit it. As much as I'm a huge fan of Stephen King AND the game baseball, I have never read his first collaboration with Stewart O'Nan, Faithful . . . and likely never will. It looks like an interesting read, but the Blue Jays fan inside me just will not allow me to indulge nearly 500 pages of Red Sox rhetoric. :)Fortunately, with A Face in the Crowd they have turned their attention away from the Sox, and away from the realm...
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
When Pat McCraw asked me if I'd be interested in reviewing her Erotic Fantasy Short-Stories collection, her first work to be translated into English, I was curious . . . but hesitant. Depending on context, the phrase "erotic fantasy" can have two very different meanings. On the one hand you have fantasy stories that happen to be erotic, and on the other hand you have . . . well, erotic stories that happens to involve fantasies.So, I took at...
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:Witchbreaker by James MaxeyFive hundred years ago, the famed Witchbreaker, Lord Stark Tower, launched a war against the cult of witches, nearly wiping them out. Today, only a handful of women still practice the craft in secret. A young witch...
Monday, 17 September 2012
With its heady mix of corporate wrongdoings, political scandals, family betrayals, blackmail, and murder, Sweat is a slow-burning thriller that relies largely on the strength of its characters to propel the story along. The plot itself is straightforward and familiar, borrowing from a number of standard scenarios, but the strong thread of morality and justice running through it all keeps the reader engaged beyond the page.Jake is a responsible and...
This week's edition of #TuesDecay (follow along on Google+ to see all the posts) features the ruins of the Schoellkopf Power Station in Niagara Falls, New York. It's s one of those near-mythical locations that have obsessed me since my early childhood, with the ruined architecture clinging tenuously to the wall of the escarpment, darkened tunnels leading to hidden wonders I could only dream of, and the sheer, seemingly unclimbable wall...
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that is designed to provide some much-appreciated exposure to the bloggers participating, and to expand their following. Hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read, each of whom feature a chosen blog for the week, it's an interesting way to get to know one another.Question of the Week: What hyped up book do you think was not worth all the talk?A Feast for Crows was a huge disappointment,...
Jesus was hung on a tree? My book, "The Division of the Damned" deals with the imaginaryidea that Himmler sent a squad of SS to Transylvaniato make a deal with a vampire count, Count Dracyl. The soldiers, alreadydisillusioned with their part in the war and the treatment of the conquerednations, then turn on the vampires and fight them using silver swords andbullets and the power of a tree. "The power of a tree?"...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Division of The DamnedBy Richard Rhys JonesIt was a brilliant plan to win the war.What if the Third Reich could own the night?What if they had a Division of Vampires?And if those Vampires didn't stop?If they had plans to conquer the whole world?Even Heinrich Himmler hadn't thought of that. But in Transylvania someone had. And on the Winter Solstice of 1944, the world would be at their mercy.αωαωαωαωαωαωαωChapter 1Russia1944They flew from tree to...
The Writers’ Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy is a collection of essays and interviews with some of most influential names in the industry; each article covering a specific element of the craft of writing science fiction and fantasy. The collaborators in this wonderful anthology include:Neil Gaiman – “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”Orson Scott Card – “On Rhetoric and Style.”Lou Anders – “Nebulous Matters, or Speculations on Subgenre.”Lucy...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:The Folly of the World by Jesse BullingtonOn a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and...
This week's edition of #TuesDecay (follow along on Google+ to see all the posts) features an old barn out along Hwy 3. I don't know what it is about barns that seems to require they be allowed to descend into ruin, or what it is about me that finds that so attractive. Maybe it's the old stone used in the foundations, or the way the landscape seems to echo that slow dec...
Friday, 7 September 2012
18 and Over Book Blogger Follow is a weekly feature that begins on Fridays and runs through the weekend hosted by Crystal from Reading Between the Wines and Kelly at Secrets of a Book Lover. This one is aimed primarily at bloggers and books for the 18 and over crowd.Question of the Week: If you could beta read for any author who would it be and why?Okay, I'm going to cheat a bit here and go with 2 authors - not because...
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Stephen Barnard's Mordenhof is a short but effective trio of stories, each of them putting a subtly horrific twist upon the fantasy genre. The world of Mordenhof is one of dark magic, darker monsters, and darkest deceptions.In Sigdom’s Idol, a cursed dagger turns already uneasy allies against one another, eroding what little desperate trust exists between them, and putting them at the heart of a battle that extends deep into the spiritual...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
A year after Hitler committed suicide, a rather cliched message-in-a-bottle was found on the beach in Copenhagen, suggesting he actually died U-boat collision that winter. Donald Allen Kirch's WWI vampire thriller, Reich, takes this obscure bit of WWII history and runs with it, adding a monstrous twist to the interesting alternate history scenario.Hitler has been called a monster before, but never quite like this. In Kirch's tale, he is an old-fashioned...
The Insecure Writer's Support Group in a once-monthly blog hop hosted by Alex J. Cavanaugh. The idea is to provide authors with an avenue to share their doubts and concerns, and to offer one another encouragement and guidance. Every first Wednesday of the month we gather to connect with one another and share our insecurities.No insecurities this month - instead, it's time to stop procrastinating, to stop thinking about being a writer, and start...
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:The Emperor's Soul by Brandon SandersonA heretic thief is the empire’s only hope in this fascinating tale that inhabits the same world as the popular novel, Elantis. Shai is a Forger, a foreigner who can flawlessly copy and re-create any...
Equal parts creepy and amusing, Haunting Obsession is actually the second Rebecca Burton novella from R.J. Sullivan, although you don't need to read the first (Backstage Pass) to enjoy this.Daryl Beasley is a man fortunate enough to find his heart's desire twice in one day, but foolish enough to risk them both. While out shopping for his girlfriend's birthday present, he spots a framed photo of Maxine Marie (a Marilyn Monroe clone) that comes with...
A relatively short (under 200 pages) but interesting novel that puts a unique spin on the apocalypse. As the title suggests, each chapters carries us backwards or forwards in time, telling three intersecting stories:AFTER THE FALL: A claustrophobic, emotionally charged, post-apocalyptic tale of dying adults, damaged adolescents, and stolen children.BEFORE THE FALL: Cold and efficient, a contemporary drama surrounding one woman's struggle to decipher...
Monday, 3 September 2012
This week's edition of #TuesDecay (follow along on Google+ to see all the posts) features the Blue Ghost Tunnel (Grand Trunk Railway Tunnel) - a long, winding, abandoned train tunnel that runs under Lock 18 of the 3rd Welland Canal. Dark, damp, and sporting icicle stalactites throughout the winter, it's also said to be haunted . . . which is what first took my camera and I the...
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