Fair Coin – E.C. Myers

Aboutthe book Sixteen-year-oldEphraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his motherunconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason forher suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identifiedEphraim’s body at the hospital that day.  Among his dead double’s belongings, Ephraimfinds a strange coin—a coin that…

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Author Interview – Alex Bledsoe

Dear readers,  You are in for a real treat today. I’m very excited about this so I sincerely hope you enjoy it.  This year I’ve had a goal to do some author interviews. Doing author interviews really terrifies me. I think the reason why is because I see so many interviews online that are long…

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Throne of the Crescent Moon – Saladin Ahmed

Aboutthe book From Saladin Ahmed,finalist for the Nebula and Campbell Awards, comes one of the year’s mostanticipated fantasy debuts, THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON, a fantasy adventurewith all the magic of The Arabian Nights.  The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, land of djenn andghuls, Khalifs and killers, is on the brink of civil war. To make things…

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Range of Ghosts – Elizabeth Bear

About the book Temur, grandson ofthe Great Khan, is walking away from a battlefield where he was left fordead. All around lie the fallen armies of his cousin and his brother, whomade war to rule the Khaganate. Temur is now the legitimate heir by bloodto his grandfather’s throne, but he is not the strongest. Going into exile…

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And now for something different…

Last week a post went viral within the SFF blogging community pretty fast. It was this post written by Stefan from Far Beyond Reality. Soon after that was posted bloggers were popping up all over with their list of the top five bloggers/fan writers they’d nominate for a Hugo. Then Kristen, from Fantasy Cafe popped up with this thought provoking…

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11/22/63 – Stephen King

About the book On November 22,1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the worldchanged forever.  If you had the chance to change the course ofhistory, would you?  Would the consequences be worth it?  Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old highschool English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teachingadults in…

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Jack of Ravens – Mark Chadbourn

Aboutthe book A quest of epicreach spanning the globe under the mythologies of five great cultures – andfinally crossing the barrier between life and death.  Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walksout of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before hewas born, with no knowledge of how he got there.  All…

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ATTENTION

Dear publishers, authors and whoever else this applies to:  I’ve tried to let EVERYONE who needs this information know, but I probably missed someone so I’m sincerely hoping everyone who needs to see this does so.  My mailing address has changed and if you had my @q.com email, that’s changed too.  If you are a…

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Wide Open – Deborah Coates

About the book When Sergeant HallieMichaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days’ compassionateleave, her sister Dell’s ghost is waiting at the airport to greet her. The sheriff says that Dell’s death was suicide,but Hallie doesn’t believe it. Something happened or Dell’s ghost wouldn’tstill be hanging around. Friends and family, mourning Dell’s…

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Discussion: Should bloggers be awarded?

This discussion has a little homework attached to it. Recently I was made aware of an article written by Stefan Raets about… well, I’ll have you read it here or here. The topic really interests me because I’ve never thought of bloggers being able to receive Hugo-type awards, but it makes sense. The world is changing,…

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