I am a book blogger and the owner of Bookworm Blues - a popular speculative fiction book review website. I have been a compulsive reader all my life. Early on found my reading niche in the fantastic genre of Speculative Fiction. I blame my active imagination for the hobbies that threaten to consume my life. A freelance writer and photographer, world traveler and recent college graduate, I'm also a new mother, cancer fighter & survivor. In my ideal world, I'd do nothing but drink lots of tea and read from a never ending pile of speculative fiction books. Respected as a reviewer, I receive book ARCs from all of the major and most minor publishers in science fiction and fantasy. But given my love of stories, I've always wanted to be a part of the creative process, and editing is my first step in that direction.

Zeroes – Chuck Wendig

About the Book An exhilarating thrill-ride through the underbelly of cyber espionage in the vein of David Ignatius’s The Director and the television series Leverage, CSI: Cyber, and Person of Interest, which follows five iconoclastic hackers who are coerced into serving the U.S. government. An Anonymous-style rabble rouser, an Arab spring hactivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an…

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And the winners are…

If you remember, I had this giveaway running. Well, the winners were randomly chosen, so let us all congratulate: Taylor S. and Robin L. Thanks to everyone who visited/entered/spread the word, and stay tuned because the SPFBO #2 is going to start up!

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The Ripper Gene – Michael Ransom

About the Book A neuroscientist-turned-FBI-profiler discovers a gene that produces psychopaths in this thrilling debut novel. Dr. Lucas Madden is a neuroscientist-turned-FBI profiler who first gained global recognition for cloning the ripper gene and showing its dysfunction in the brains of psychopaths. Later, as an FBI profiler, Madden achieved further notoriety by sequencing the DNA…

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GIVEAWAY | THE SELF-PUBLISHED FANTASY BLOG-OFF BUNDLE

(Giveaway details at the end) THE SELF-PUBLISHED FANTASY BLOG-OFF BUNDLE Curated by Blair MacGregor “Ten fine bloggers and blog-sites spent a year considering almost three hundred self-published fantasy books to bring you their ten favorites. It’s hard to imagine you won’t find some gems among them.” — Mark Lawrence This is a unique bundle, its…

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Guest Post | How to Write a Publicity Query Email That Won’t Get You Blacklisted by Bloggers – Melanie R. Meadors

Melanie R. Meadors is the author of fantasy and science fiction stories where heroes don’t always carry swords and knights in shining armor often lose to nerds who study their weaknesses. She’s been known to befriend wandering garden gnomes, do battle with metal-eating squirrels, and has been called a superhero on more than one occasion….

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A Non-Bookish Aside… with photographs

You may or may not have noticed that I have been rather quiet recently. Well, my batteries have been running on empty and I’ve been e-x-h-a-u-s-t-e-d. I’ve been reading a lot, but I’ve had almost no energy to actually write reviews. You know how that goes… Well, we took the two kids to visit my…

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The Last Days of Jack Sparks – Jason Arnopp

About the Book Prepare for the cleverest, most addictive thriller you will read this year. This is the story of the ill-fated Jack Sparks – a man who plays with fire, and pays the price . . . Jack Sparks died while writing this book. This is the account of his final days. In 2014,…

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Thorn Jack – Katherine Harbour

About the Book They call us things with teeth. These words from Lily Rose Sullivan the night of her death haunts her seventeen-year-old sister, Finn, who has moved with her widowed father to his hometown of Fair Hollow, New York. After befriending a boy named Christie Hart and his best friend, Sylvie Whitethorn, Finn is invited…

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