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.

With Fate Conspire – Marie Brennan

About the book Seven years ago, Eliza’s childhood sweetheartvanished from the streets of Whitechapel. No one believed her when shetold them that he was stolen away by the faeries. But she hasn’t given up the search. It will lead her across London and into thehidden palace that gives refuge to faeries in the mortal world. That refuge isnow…

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Bricks – Leon Jenner

About the book This is the story of a bricklayer.A master of his craft, he keeps its sacred teachings secret. For him a house isthe dwelling place of a soul, and a house must be built in the right spirit orthe soul inside it will suffer. The building of an arch is a ritual to…

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Stations of the Tide – Michael Swanwick

About the Book The “JubileeTides” will drown Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as theonce-in-two centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophethreatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, andshapechangers. For Gregorian has come, a genius renegade scientist and bushwizard. With magic and forbidden technology, he plans to remake the rottingdying…

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Low Town – Daniel Polansky

About the book Drug dealers, hustlers,brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.  In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus,the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an uglyplace, and its cham­pion is an ugly man….

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Lamentation – Ken Scholes

About the book Anancient weapon has completely destroyed the city of Windwir.  From many miles away, Rudolfo, Lord of the Nine Forest Houses, sees thehorrifying column of smoke rising.  He knows that war is coming to theNamed Lands. Nearerto the Devastation, a young apprentice is the only survivor of the city – hesat waiting for his father…

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The Watchtower – Lee Carroll

About the book Whatsecrets are hidden in her past . . . ? Jewelrydesigner Garet James is still coming to terms with the astoundingrevelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of womensworn to protect the world from evil.  Now she has received a signfrom Will Hughes, the 400-year-old vampire who once…

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Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons

Aboutthe book THEPAST… Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is oneof the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil farolder, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves… THEPRESENT… Compelled by the encounter to…

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Time and Chance – Alan Brernnert

About the book A classic novel from the bestselling authorof Moloka’i and Honolulu Before Alan Brennert became abestselling author of historical novels, he wrote this lyrical fantasy in thevein of The Time Traveler’s Wife. Part love story, part deeply affecting characterstudy, it is a literary tour de force chronicling the parallel lives of two menwho were once the same man–until,…

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7th Sigma – Steven Gould

About the book Welcometo the territory. Leave your metal behind, all of it. The bugs willeat it, and they’ll go right through you to get it…Don’t carry it, don’t wearit, and for god’s sake don’t come here if you’ve got a pacemaker. Thebugs showed up about fifty years ago—self-replicating, solar-powered,metal-eating machines. No one knows where they came from. They…

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Michael Sullivan answers a question

Thisweek it was made known to me that Michael Sullivan, the author of Riyria Revelations, was doing a question-answer session on Goodreads (from July 15-17). I decided that Icouldn’t pass up this opportunity to ask him a question, and then share withthe world (via my blog) his answer and maybe help him get some attention forhis…

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