Lotus Blue
Lotus Blue By Cat Sparks Seventeen-year-old Star and her sister Nene are orphans, part of a thirteen-wagon caravan of nomadic traders living hard lives travelling the Sand Road. Their route cuts through a particularly dangerous and unforgiving section of the Dead Red Heart, a war-ravaged desert landscape plagued by rogue semi-sentient machinery and other monsters […]
The Last Mortal Bond
The Last Mortal BondThe Unhewn ThroneBy Brian Staveley Death is near, armies are gathered, and the future rests on a knife-edge. The Annurian Empire is losing a war on two fronts – and it’s unclear who is in command. Adare is stationed in the thick of battle and now calls herself Emperor. However, she can’t […]
Review: The Darkness That Comes Before
The July will see the long awaited release of (the US hardback) The Great Ordeal, book three of The Aspect Emperor (the local/UK edition to following September) and I am beside myself with anticipation. So much so that I urge any of you who have not embarked on this brilliant series to have a look […]
Review: The Daughter of Blood
Daughter of BloodThe Wall of Night Book ThreeBy Helen Lowe A failing wall, a broken shield . . . and an enemy that will exploit every weakness Malian and Kalan are coming home, but already it may be too late. The Wall of Night, dangerously weakened by civil war among the Derai families that garrison […]
The Blood of the Spear – WiP Report 3
Hello fair readers! It’s been some time since I graced you with an update, and I know you are all waiting with baited breath to hear how it’s going… Well. It’s going. I am currently working on the last PoV doc, and am sitting at 87% of the 5ht draft manuscript done. It’s hard to […]
Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
Stripped of his identity at the death of his father, the king of Akielos, Prince Damianos is consigned to slavery by his half-brother who has usurped the throne. ‘Gifted’ as a pleasure slave to Prince Laurent of Vere, deadly enemy of the kingdom of Akielos the renamed ‘Damen’ must submit to his new position while […]
The Importance of an Editor – and a Manuscript Assessment
I have been reading for years (and years), have beta-read for other authors and review books frequently, but when it comes to writing itself, I am very much still learning my craft for a reader does not a writer make – at least, not entirely. Being asked to beta-read has taught me how read critically, […]
The Blood of the Spear – WiP Report 2
I’ve just come back from two weeks of a annual leave and the 5th draft of TBotS is now sitting at 56% complete. I had a lovely time imagining that I was a full-time writer, working for myself. I was up at 7am every morning , coffee in hand, and writing until 9am to stop […]
A Must Read
You have no idea of my excitement. I couldn’t possibly describe it to you even if I tried. I have been waiting for this book for a long time (not that Michelle has not been writing but I’ve been waiting for this particular part of the story!). It had completely dropped off my radar as well – […]
Maps
To map or not to map? That is the question. Actually it’s not a question at all – I am mapping in my book. I don’t understand fantasy books without maps; it’s never made sense to me. You (the author) have created a whole new world with mountain ranges and deserts and peninsulas and oceans… […]
