(Note: This is a two book review in one post. Yes, it’s a VERY long post due to that. I will probably do a few posts like this as I try to catch up on my serious review backlog from my two surgeries and my epic two-month recovery). About the Book Born the only female …
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Jun 17
Wisp of a Thing – Alex Bledsoe
About the Book Alex Bledsoe’s The Hum and the Shiver was named one of the Best Fiction Books of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews. Now with Wisp of a Thing Bledsoe returns to the isolated ridges and hollows of the Smoky Mountains to spin an equally enchanting tale of music and magic older than the hills…. Touched by a very public tragedy, …
Jun 14
The Mist-Torn Witches – Barb Hendee
About the Book In a small village in the nation of Droevinka, orphaned sisters Céline and Amelie Fawe scrape out a living selling herbal medicines in their apothecary shop. Céline earns additional money by posing as a seer and pretending to read people’s futures. But they exist in a land of great noble houses, all …
Jun 10
Black Halo – Sam Sykes
About the Book The Tome of the Undergates has been recovered, and the gates of hell remain closed. Lenk and his five companions set sail to bring the accursed relic away from the demonic reach of Ulbecetonth, the Kraken Queen, but their ship crashes upon an island made of the bones left behind from a …
Jun 07
Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Bradley P. Beaulieu
About the Author Bradley P. Beaulieu began writing his first fantasy novel in college, but in the way of these things, it was set aside as life intervened. As time went on, though, Brad realized that his love of writing and telling tales wasn’t going to just slink quietly into the night. The drive to …
Jun 06
Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Kendra Merritt – A Different Kind of Hero
About the Author Books have been Kendra’s escape for as long as she can remember. She used to hide fantasy books behind her government textbook in high school, and she wrote almost an entire novel during a semester of algebra. When she was twenty-one, she had a bad reaction to an epidural during a scoliosis …
Jun 06
An Update – This and That
Special Needs in Strange Worlds is over. I always have a blast doing this event, and I find myself deep in thought for a long time after. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed. I am sorry I didn’t have more new posts, but life kind of dumped on me and I had to …
May 31
Special needs in Strange Worlds | R.T. Kaelin
About the Author R.T. Kaelin is a loving husband, father of two wonderful children, and a lifelong resident of Ohio, currently in Columbus. After graduating from college, for the first twelve years of his career he has worked as a software engineer. After creatively writing a local gaming group, it was suggested he try his …
May 29
Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Liam Perrin
About the Author Liam Perrin is no stranger to storytelling. He worked for half a decade on the legendary Myst series selected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as one of five featured games out of 240 in the Renwick Gallery’s standing Art of Video Games exhibition after 3.7 million votes were cast in 175 …
May 27
Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Robert Jackson Bennett
You can find the original post here. About the Author Robert Jackson Bennett‘s 2010 debut Mr. Shivers won the Shirley Jackson award as well as the Sydney J Bounds Newcomer Award. His second novel, The Company Man, is currently nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award as well as an Edgar Award. You can find out more about …




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