Archive for August, 2008
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Leaving Fortusa, by John Grant
Welcome to Day Two of Small Press Week; today our spotlight is on the relative newcomer Norilana Books. Their most recent release is Sherwood Smith’s A Stranger to Command; you can read more about it here. In October, they will be releasing this novel. John Grant is the pen name of Paul Barnett; between them [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Muse of Fire, by Dan Simmons
As the intro post stated, today I’m reviewing a Subterranean Press release. Dan Simmons is a Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, and Bram Stoker Award-winning author who spent nearly 20 years being an elementary school teacher; he has written several very large novels that are primarily science-fiction and horror. He got his start from a short-story [...]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Small Press Week at Someone’s Read it Already
Hello, and welcome to Small Press Week! This week, I’ll be treating you to five reviews of novels published by five different small presses. These range from an old favorite (Subterranean Press) to a couple I’d never quite heard of prior to this (Shadow Mountain, Small Beer Press). I’ve certainly not covered every single small [...]
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Windfall (Weather Wardens, book 4), by Rachel Caine
I follow Rachel Caine’s blog, and I’ve had several reminders from her that Book 7 (Gale Force) is about to be released. I thought to myself, “Self, you haven’t read books 4-6. You don’t deserve book 7.” Of course, in that sentence, I gave myself a prescription for alleviating my lack of need for book [...]