Cover Reveal! Titan Magic: Body and Soul, by Jodi Lamm!

Well? Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Because this is a fantastic cover for a fantastic book. Titan Magic: Body and Soul follows Lamm’s 2011 masterpiece, Titan Magic, which I reviewed a while ago. And Lamm has outdone herself. Trust me, I know – I had the honor of prereading… Continue reading

Review – Mr. Churchill’s Secretary (Susan Elia MacNeal)

In preparation for the reviews I’ll soon be posting of MacNeal’s second and third Maggie Hope books, I decided to start at the beginning by copy-pasting from Goodreads the review I wrote for her first – because it is very important to take things in the proper order. Mr. Churchill’s… Continue reading

The Milk Wagon Mystery – a short for children

Cross-posted to Always 1895 Greetings, readers. That little short story I mentioned previously is now out in digital format. It’s a light little puzzle written by myself and my grandmother, based on the games we used to play when I was a very small child. (Most of our games involved… Continue reading

Review – The Kentauride (Martin Landry)

The Kentauride Martin Landry ASIN: B00CLDQ92W 396 pages Goodreads From Goodreads: “Tanita woke up in an abandoned factory to the sound of gunfire, nude, with a terrible hangover. And that was the high point of her day… Set in the modern world, this first of three volumes follows Tanita the Kentauride… Continue reading

Review – Titan Magic (Jodi Lamm)

Titan Magic (Titan Magic #1) Jodi Lamm ASIN: B005R9RJI0 eBook ISBN: 2940013244245 Paperback ISBN: 1466443693 393 Pages Goodreads From Goodreads: “Mute, heartless, and tormented by auditory hallucinations, Madeleine Lavoie never questions why her family has hidden her from the world. But the night her brother casts her out, she learns the mysterious voice… Continue reading

The Great Con Post

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I came, I saw, I AggieCon’quered. It was my intention to do daily AggieCon posts, but I think I overestimated my stamina. I smiled, and I talked to people, and it was just more than I could take; I passed out pretty much as soon as the dealer’s room closed… Continue reading

Concentrated awesome

Yep, it’s pretty cool. I invite everyone to go check out this page and listen to the awesome recording. The words are mine, but that gorgeous, silky voice you hear belongs to the fabulous SilverInkblot, of the Elocutionists group. Their snazzy, snazzy thing is doing these awesome spoken-word renditions of literature…. Continue reading

Fantasy is not serious literature.

Apparently. The conversation went something like this: “Oh, you’re a writer? What do you write?” “Lots of stuff. I’ve been writing poetry for a while, and I’ve recently published two volumes of a fantasy series. There are several more coming. I’m also half-working on a piece of literary fiction that… Continue reading