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Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate) by Gail Carriger Victorian high-society full of vampires, werewolves, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. A description much like the one above intrigued me – just a bit tongue-in-cheek, but also self-aware enough to earn a smile. Soulless by Gail Carriger (Book Depository, Powell’s Books, Indiebound) does indeed meet that description…and more (there is
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Changes (Dresden Files, Book 12) by Jim Butcher Chicago’s only wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden soon finds himself in the middle of yet another battle. This time the Red Court of vampires has kidnapped a daughter that Harry didn’t know he had. Former flame and half-vampire Susan Rodriguez returns to break the news to Harry and get
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If you are interested in becoming an author and are interested in learning how to write a good novel, begin by reading good novels in the genre that you are interested in writing about. Reading novels from great authors within the same genre that you are interested in will give you ideas on how to structure the plot of your novel, how to develop a theme, setting scenes, writing dialogues and how to write good characters.
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White Tiger (Dark Heavens Trilogy) by Kylie Chan This book, the first of a trilogy first published in Australia in 2006, is a refreshing change to the many, many, many usual urban fantasy novels around at the moment. Though there are no vampires, it is a rip-roaring contemporary tale of mortals, Gods and Chinese mythology.
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Spiral Hunt (Evie Scelan) by Margaret Ronald Spiral Hunt follows the new urban fantasy rubric fairly closely – Evie Scelan is a relatively young, single woman, is fiercely independent with few friends, haunted by her past, and somewhat down on her luck. Evie also has the ability to magically track the scent of people and
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Deadtown by Nancy Holzner Victory Vaughn is Boston’s only professional demon slayer, in a city where the vampires, werewolves and zombies are confined to a quarantined section called Deadtown. Not only is she dealing with a workaholic werewolf sort-of boyfriend, a rash teenage zombie apprentice, and a demanding, demon-ridden client, but now the Hellion who
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Got a Non-Fiction Book? Tell Your Reader Whatâs In It for Them! (Adapted from The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living, by Peter Bowerman. Fanove, 2007. www.wellfedsp.com). NOTE: the following suggestions apply to non-fiction works. Some time back, I got an email from an ebook author who wanted a blurb
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Book marketing is an activity that most book authors undertake to promote their books. If you’re a book author, you may have a website where you have downloads of your first chapter or chapters. But have you also made available discussion questions for book clubs to use? Book groups can be a good target market
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Finch by Jeff VanderMeer As typical of VanderMeer’s writing, deep thematic elements abound. The commentary seems to be aimed at society, government, and the consequences of one’s actions, but it’s so well integrated into the story and Ambergris itself, it doesn’t stand out and is open to layers of interpretation. Finch answers many of the
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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J. Sullivan The story of “Nyphron Rising”, as those of the previous novels, comes with a page-turner adventure, with quite a lot of action, amusing dialogues and situations, with tension, intrigue and a few twists on its side. Still, although the story of the novel is
Rue de la Pompe: A Satiric Urban Fantasy by James Earle McCracken