It’s been a few weeks since my last post, which was mostly a disheartening insight for my readers into the financial health of my writing career. But let it not be thought I’m all controlled rage and simmering angst around here. Quite the opposite, actually. My days are filled with quiet creation and industry. When not managing the administration of our glass business, which is what pays the bills around here, I’ve been working steadily…
LibraryThing Early Reviewers Gives 5 stars to The Rose Guardian This is a journey of relationships and relativity as told though the eyes of an artist (and authored by an artist of both color and words). It touches on the relationship of the mother to her children and how her pain attacks them, leaving them marked for life also. It reflects upon the influence of childhood on the adults they become and it allows for a…
The sequel to Michael Skeet’s delicious adventure, A Poisoned Prayer, continues in an engaging and—dare I say it—enchanting tale of misdirection and grand hijinx in A Tangled Weave. And it’s now available for pre-order in both trade paperback and epub. There was an earlier fascinating post from Michael in which he described the creative process and background for A Tangled Weave. I know you’re going to love this installment. It was a delight to edit, and a delight…
Now available for pre-order Lorina Stephens‘ new magic realism novel, The Rose Guardian, is now available for pre-order in trade paperback and ebook. What’s it about? Here’s the book blurb: There is a conversation that should have happened between Vi Cotter and her mother. Now it’s too late. But sometimes the dead speak through the legacy they leave, and in this case Vi’s mother bequeaths her, among other things, her journals. Do we sometimes seek absolution from…
One of the novels the much-missed Dave Duncan wrote before he hied himself off to the great Unknown was Pillar of Darkness. Two hundred miles wide and higher than the moon, Sungoback has stood over central Africa for thirty years, a pillar of light by night and of darkness by day. Science cannot explain it; it destroys technology. What secret lies at its centre: aliens, eternal life, distant past, or far future? Most who venture inside…