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

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

Review – Eyes of the Seer / Rebirth of the Seer (Peter Dawes)

I’ll just pop these two into one post, shall I? I’ll start with Eyes of the Seer, the first book in Peter Dawes’ Vampire Flynn Trilogy. (As I understand it, the trilogy has recently been expanded. While ‘series’ is not quite as poetic as ‘trilogy’, it is also the mark of a… Continue reading