I pushed my way through the bodies shuffling around in front of the warehouse where I attended twelve-step meetings. The place was always packed the night after Halloween. Most holidays presented temptations to an addict, but for a Supe, Halloween was the worst. It was just so easy to blend in. Inside, my friend Ozzie Read More …
CLAIMING T-MO by Eugen Bacon RELEASE DATE: 8/13/19 GENRE: Science Fiction / Fantasy BOOK PAGE In this lush interplanetary tale, an immortal priest flouts the conventions of a matriarchal society by choosing a name for his child. The act initiates chaos that splits the boy in two, unleashing a Jekyll-and-Hyde child upon the universe: named Read More …
We are excited to participate in the Wild Horse Blog Tour with a guest post by Kyle Richardson! We read this novelette and absolutely adored it. Kyle’s writing pulls on the heartstrings in a wonderful way and you’ll be wishing that this story had a part 2 for sure! Enjoy his thoughts on writing YA Read More …
Release Date: 2/19/19 Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Weird, Fantasy, Scifi, Dystopian COLLISION BOOK PAGE A collection of twelve of J.S. Breukelaar’s darkest, finest stories with four new works, including the uncanny new novella “Ripples on a Blank Shore.” Introduction by award-winning author, Angela Slatter. Relish the gothic strangeness of “Union Falls,” the alien horror of Read More …
I am thrilled to have a guest post by Seb Doubinsky, author of Missing Signal, which I consider a literary dystopian novel that happens to have aliens (!!). If George Orwell, Franz Kafka & Philip K. Dick had a book baby…well…you get the picture. It is a quick, fast-paced page turner with brilliant writing on Read More …
I listened to the audio version of this masterfully written, haunting, and powerful novel. Sing, Unburied, Sing – the story, its characters, the atrocities of Mississipi’s Parchman prison – will stay with me forever. I can’t remember a more powerful image than that of the final scene in the book. For audio listeners, the narration Read More …
Already a huge fan of Andy Weir’s The Martian, I jumped at the chance to read an advance review copy of his upcoming novel, Artemis. At a glance, this is a story of Jazz, a tough, funny, resourceful young lady who has grown up in Artemis, a city on the moon. She makes ends meet Read More …
This illustration was for a short story by Thomas I. Benton called, “The Resurrection.”
I joined my first book club recently. Or maybe it is better described as a wine club where we sometimes talk about books. (But not always.) The founder set us up on a little website and we even have a name: We Like Big Books and We Cannot Lie. It is a very fun group. Read More …
I received a book from Amazon last night (a real one that you hold in your hands?!?!) and immediately fell in love. (Again.) Since it is an awesome resource for writers, I will share it here: Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction – by Jeff Vandermeer So to give you some background, I Read More …