Archive for October, 2008
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Touchstone, by Laurie King
Review by DP
Laurie R. King is best known for her two long-running mystery series, one set in the England in the Roaring Twenties and starring Mary Russell as Sherlock Holmes’ feminist wife and the other set in modern-day San Francisco and focusing on lesbian detective Kay Martinelli. In addition, King writes the occasional stand-alone novel—most [...]
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Someone’s Read it Already on vacation
Ben and I (Stephanie) are getting married on Tuesday at noon; we left town Thursday evening, so no one’s available to approve comments. The reviewing will be on a hiatus, except for Wednesday, when DP so generously donated a guest review for us.
We’ll see you in November!
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
Legacy, by Cayla Kluver
Cayla Kluver is a teenager; she completed this novel, as well as high school, at fifteen years of age. She intends to take this year off to finish the second half of the duology and to promote both works, and then she will go to college to study creative writing. Like most writers, she’s been [...]
No Comments » - Posted in book reviews, children's lit, fantasy by Stephanie
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Union of Renegades (Chronicles of the Rys, book 1), by Tracy Falbe
Today’s novel inspired a publisher. Tracy Falbe found it difficult to sell her already-completed epic fantasy quartet, so she founded Falbe Publishing and, subsequently, the Brave Luck Books imprint to promote her own works. She is also reissuing classic novels in updated packages as various formats of ebooks; she states specifically that all of the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in book reviews, fantasy by Stephanie
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Darkside: Waking the Dead, by S. K. S. Perry
A few weeks months ago, for Free (Legal) Books on the Internet Week, I reviewed Darkside by S. K. S. Perry. At the time, I didn’t even know if he was male or female (turns out he’s a guy), but I did know that I liked James Decker, the wise-cracking narrator, and his crazy world [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in book reviews, fantasy by Stephanie
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
The Vision (The Green Stone of Healing (R), Book 1), by C. L. Talmadge
C. L. Talmadge has been a professional, published writer since 1976; she’s a columnist for the North Star Writers’ Group, and has been syndicated in many different major newspapers. She always knew she wanted to write a novel, and finally managed, producing three. She formed her own publishing company (or imprint), Healing Stone Press, to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in book reviews, fantasy by Stephanie
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Mortal Ghost, by L. Lee Lowe
L. Lee Lowe is self-published because she simply wanted to opt out of the publishing industry, full stop. She wants to be a writer — a person who writes and has people read what she writes — rather than a businessperson, and has arranged her writing career thusly. Her novel, Mortal Ghost, is available in [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in book reviews, children's lit, fantasy, horror by Stephanie
Monday, October 20th, 2008
Self-Publishing Week
I don’t know all the reasons that people choose to self-publish, and I won’t pretend to. Some people do because New York won’t pay attention to them; some people do because they’re writing something that’s got a limited audience; some people do because they don’t like the publishing industry. I don’t even know that I’ve [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Burn, by James Patrick Kelly
James Patrick Kelly has written in many different formats, including the usual (novels, essays, novellas, etc.) and the not-so-usual (a planetarium show). He’s won the Hugo Award twice for novelettes (I don’t exactly know what the difference is between a short story, a novelette, and a novella, but rest assured that there is one), in [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
1632, by Eric Flint
Prior to Googling him, I didn’t know anything about Eric Flint, but forced to guess, I would have said that he has a working-class background/family but perhaps a degree in history at some point. I was right; apparently he has a master’s degree in West African History, worked as a machinist among other things, and [...]