Cover Art: Kingmaker, Kingbreaker
Kingmaker, KingbreakerOmnibusBy Karen MillerBUY IT Being a fisherman like his father isn’t a bad life, but it’s not the one that Asher wants. Despite his humble roots, Asher has grand dreams. And they call him to Dorana, home of princes, beggars, and the warrior mages who have protected the kingdom for generations. Little does Asher […]
The Wheel of Time is now Completed
Brandon Sanderson has posted on his blog here that he’s finished the final draft of A Memory of Light and handed it over to ‘Team Jordan’ to do copy edit and proof reading. “And then, today, I did not have a Wheel of Time book to work on.“ In January the book will be released […]
Cover Art: Knife-Sworn
Knife-SwornTower and Knife #2By Mazarkis Williams After years locked in a tower, Prince Sarmin has come into his own. He has been crowned emperor; he has wed Mesema of the horse tribes; the Pattern-Master is dead. Everything should be happy-ever-after. But war has begun, Sarmin has no royal assassin, and both his wife and mother […]
Judging a Book By It’s Cover
– and the blurb on the back. OR the fact that it doesn’t mention dragons or wizards or swords… Sometimes (and only sometimes) my focus on epic fantasy means I miss out on something that could be extraordinary. I was given Cloud Atlas as a gift a number of years ago – and we sold it at […]
Author Accessibility
Jason over at Fantasy Literature has written a post about the digital age bringing greater accessibility to the men and women behind the pens of our favorite books. He asks: Do you miss the days when the back cover bio was all you really knew about your favorite authors? Does the political and diary ramblings of […]
T’En
BesiegedOutcast Chronicles #1By Rowena Cory DaniellsBUY IT Sorne, the estranged son of a King on the verge of madness, is being raised as a weapon to wield against the mystical Wyrds. Half a continent away, his father is planning to lay siege to the Celestial City, the home of the T En, whose wyrd blood […]
Kushiel’s Dart: A Review
Kushiel’s DartKushiel’s Legacy #1By Jacqueline CareyBUY IT A massive fantasy tale about the violent death of an old age and the birth of a new one. Here is a novel of grandeur, luxuriance, sacrifice, betrayal, and deeply laid conspiracies. Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phedre no Delaunay is sold into indentured […]
Tracking Time
A Song of Ice and Fire Calendar 2013Buy it here: UK US Sadly I don’t have a Wall Calendar for this year – I wasn’t much of a fan of the 2012 portrait calendar. This one however looks quite good. I’ll be ordering my copy now.
Whispers Under Ground – signed to me!
Whispers Under GroundRivers of London #3By Ben AaronovitchBUY IT A WHOLE NEW REASON TO MIND THE GAP It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher – and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is understandably eager to get to […]
Up close with Jo Spurrier
Winter Be My ShieldChildren of the Black Sun #1By Jo SpurrierBUY IT Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift — she raises power from the suffering of others. Enslaved by the King’s Torturer, Sierra escapes, barely keeping ahead of Rasten, the man sent to hunt her down. Then she falls in with dangerous company: the fugitive […]
