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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld – Review
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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The novel is in many ways a familiar YA construction: a hidden Prince, a disguised girl, both people who need to grow up and are being forced to do so in a dangerous situation. The book delights in part because both protagonists are nicely depicted and fun to follow and root for. [...]
Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe – Review
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Burn Me Deadly: An Eddie LaCrosse Novel by Alex Bledsoe
“Burn Me Deadly” is the second book in a new series by Alex Bledsoe that features private investigator Eddie LaCrosse. Bledsoe takes my two favorite genres, fantasy and detective fiction, and mixes them up with highly entertaining results. In my review of The Sword Edged Blonde, [...]
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene – Review
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Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene
The night before, everything was fine and just as it should be. The following morning the residents of Walden woke up to find… nothing. Beyond the town limits lies nothing but darkness. Nothing can get through and the people of Walden don’t even know if there is [...]
Using Your Books as the BAsis for an Internet Business
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Your books — whether fiction or nonfiction — may have a lot more value in them than you realize.
We’ll start with a nonfiction book we’ll call 15 WAYS TO START AN ONLINE BUSINESS. And we’ll agree that:
- The book has been published (whether from a traditional publisher or self-published doesn’t matter).
- Each [...]
How Not To Get Your Book Published
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You’ve got a great idea for a book and you’re raring to go. You’re sure it will become a best-seller. You start to fantasize about the great jacket blurbs you’re going to get, and whom you will thank in your Oscar acceptance speech for Best Adapted Screenplay (you resolve to remember to thank both the [...]
The Stormcaller by Tom Lloyd – Review
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The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign by Tom Lloyd
The story shows you things which seems familiar on first sight but you discover soon that they are different. Gods, immortals, vampires, elves, trolls and human beings are an unusual mix.
But it works fine and none of these beings appear as you are used to [...]
Nyphron Rising by Michael J Sullivan – Review
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Nyphron Rising: The Riyria Revelations (Volume 3) by Michael J Sullivan
Nyphron Rising is the third book in Sullivan’s Riyria Revelations following both The Crown Conspiracy and Avempartha. The first novels set the bar rather high and I’m happy to report that Nyphron Rising manages to live up to its predecessors in just about every respect [...]
Sleepless by Charlie Huston – Review
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Sleepless: A Novel by Charlie Huston
So Sleepless is an apocalyptic crime story plus many other pieces that all add up to literary fiction. Yes, this is a book that is both genre and literary (in spite of having a plot). It is very much a discussion on the human condition – it’s just that most [...]
Wings of Creation by Brenda Cooper – Review
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Wings of Creation (The Silver Ship) by Brenda Cooper
Cooper explores what it means to be human by exploring what isn’t and in doing so does more to illuminate the human condition than any bit of “realistic” fiction ever could. However, I felt the story was overlong, dragging in the parts when Cooper pauses to have [...]
Veracity by Laura Bynum – Review
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Veracity by Laura Bynum
I think many of the problems I had with the novel were personal because I’m such a stickler for plausibility. Everyone has their own plausibility tolerance level. Obviously the author found it plausible and so did the many people it takes to get a book published these days, and so might you. [...]
This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams – Review
via Blood of the Muse: “This Is Not a Game” by Walter Jon Williams (Orbit).