Archive for August, 2008

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Interview with J. Scott Savage, author of Farworld: Water Keep and CONTEST!

[I have a perfectly wretched head cold at the moment, so I'm running an interview rather than having to form an opinion about a book. My apologies. Scroll down to the bottom for the contest! I promise there are no spoilers under the cut; I just thought it might be too long without one. -S.] [...]

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Monday, August 18th, 2008

Into the Wild, by Sarah Beth Durst

Tamora Pierce has been so vocally excited about this book in her blog — she even got a quote put on the front of the book — that when I came across an affordable copy of it, I had to pick it up. Sarah Beth Durst was born in Northboro, MA, the setting of the [...]

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Friday, August 15th, 2008

Working for the Devil (Dante Valentine, book 1), by Lilith Saintcrow

After last Friday’s odd Lilith Saintcrow book, I thought it would probably be good to read one of her more mainstream publications. This is the first book in a five-book series; the story is apparently complete in those five books. Apparently Lilith Saintcrow is her real name. Seriously, did she have a choice? I think [...]

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Close Kin (The Hollow Kingdom, book 2), by Clare Dunkle

I was very pleasantly surprised by book 1, which I purchased for a ridiculously low sum. Book 2 I had to find at the library, though (hey, not everyone sends me free books yet). Clare Dunkle is a librarian by trade; although she hasn’t been working as a librarian for a few years, she still [...]

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty, book 1), by Carrie Vaughn

Carrie Vaughn is not a golfer; she’s a writer. Having been an Air Force brat, she had a bit of a peripatetic childhood. She went to college at the same place as Ben Affleck — at the same time, even! — but she never met him, much to her dismay. A master’s degree from the [...]

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Year of the Griffin, by Diana Wynne Jones

I still love Diana Wynne Jones. She’s one of the grandes dames of British children’s fantasy, and I’ve reviewed several of her books previously. One of those, The Dark Lord of Derkholm, was one of my favorite books EVER. It was, quite simply, in my mind, the perfect blend of humor and character and plot [...]

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Monday, August 11th, 2008

Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld

I’ve read a few of his books before — the Uglies trilogy, which I reviewed here, here, and here. I wasn’t perhaps as impressed with them as other people, partially because I was a bit worried about the disconnect between books that say that everyone looking and acting entirely the same is a problem, but [...]

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Friday, August 8th, 2008

Steelflower (Steelflower, book 1), by Lilith Saintcrow

Finally, we come to day five, the final day in our inaugural Small Press Week. Samhain Publishing is generally thought of as an e-publisher, but they do release print versions of their novels. Those come out generally several months later, though. They were founded in November of 2005; the name refers to the Wiccan (pagan) [...]

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Farworld: Water Keep, by J. Scott Savage

Day Four of Small Press Week, and all is well! Today’s publisher is a little bit different; it’s the non-religious (i.e., mainstream fiction) imprint of what I seem to understand is a large LDS (Mormon) publisher (Deseret Books). They do seem to publish a fair amount of children’s fantasy, and they’ve signed J. Scott Savage [...]

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Stranger Things Happen, by Kelly Link

Welcome to Day 3 of our Small Press Week. Today’s small press is Small Beer Press (small beer, for those who don’t know, is an older term for a low-alcohol brew; it used to be that drinking small beer was safer than drinking water); Kelly Link is one of the founders of this press. She [...]

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