The Chronicles of Sirkara – Laura Resnick

This is a review of a trilogy. Therefore, if you’d like to learn more about each book, please click on the cover images throughout the review, which will link to the book’s Goodreads page    I enjoy running across books that haven’t received much attention. I also enjoy running across books that I enjoy a…

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Red Country – Joe Abercrombie

About the Book Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she’ll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she’s not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly…

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Triumph Over Tragedy is now available!

I haven’t been quiet about my efforts to promote Triumph Over Tragedy recently. Nor have I been quiet about the fact that I’m actually doing what I really want to do: edit. This is the first book that’s published that I’ve helped edit. What makes this even more cool is that all the proceeds from…

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Ice Forged – Gail Z. Martin

About the Book Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine “Mick” McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands of Edgeland. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic of the governor’s mages keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against…

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(Another) Cancer Update

I kind of debated whether to post this for about an hour before I actually decided “what the hell..” and just posted it. Who knows, maybe my own experiences can help someone else. We all have our own stories and our own battles and they are all different and unique. If I can help someone in some…

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Lofty 2013 Goals

Well, 2013 is upon us, and who is more surprised than I that we somehow managed to survive the apocalypse? In 2012, I didn’t really have any goals besides the goal to get over myself and start interviewing authors. Which I actually managed to accomplish (and I learned I enjoyed it quite a bit). I also hosted an…

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Cancer Update

When I was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, I made a pretty conscious decision to be open about it. Well, here’s the rundown. I was diagnosed with “the best kind of cancer” (No cancer is good. I hate it when people say “you really got lucky with your cancer! It’s the best one!” like I…

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Author Interview | Jeff Salyards

Jeff Salyards is a relatively new voice in speculative fiction. He’s made quite a splash with his first, and very successful, novel Scourge of the Betrayer. It says something about an author’s budding career when they went from a person no one has heard of before, to a common name in a matter of a…

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