Eugen Bacon’s Novic is a dark and lyrical story of the journey of a young man figuring out why he is immortal. Bacon’s prose is a character in itself—a poetic and unsettling force that wraps the reader in a haunting atmosphere. This is a background story for Novic, who appears in Bacon’s novel Claiming T-Mo, Read More …
By Carla E. Dash You are commander Shepard, a decorated military officer, Lieutenant Commander of the Systems Alliance frigate SSV Normandy, a new, state-of-the-art stealth ship, and the first human Spectre, an elite group of agents given wide authority to maintain stability in the galaxy through any means necessary by the Citadel Council, a multi-species Read More …
This book floored me. A dystopian novel with two unlikely companions. Ysmany is a young girl fleeing her community in order to save a baby from a military grade twitch (human who voluntarily chose a technologically advanced “secondskin” suit making them essentially hybrid tech/human) who leads the community and rids them of any perceived threats. Read More …
I just finished Calvaria Fell by Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks, a wonderful collection of stories that range from dystopian to fantasy, but all on the dark and weird end of the scale. I felt all of the stories were very good, not always the case with collections or anthologies, and a few stood out Read More …
Picture me in a rocking chair in the attic, sipping tea from a cracked mug, surrounded by decrepit mannequins with spider clusters for eyes. Shadows jig merrily on the walls. As I sip the ectoplasmic tea, I experience the memories of ghosts, but I won’t let that distract me. I have a job to do. Read More …
Let’s start by saying, Kathe Koja’s Dark Factory is a fun read! The ultimate dance club where the next step in AR/VR technology, called “Y,” allows clubgoers to customize the experience. Put that tiara on and go wild. I loved the characters in this book, and there were a lot of them, but I felt Read More …
The Twilight Zone meets Promising Young Woman in Giving the Devil His Due, The Pixel Project’s first charity anthology under their Read For Pixels program which has been published in partnership with Running Wild Press on September 1st, 2021. 100% of the net proceeds from the sales of the anthology will go towards supporting The Pixel Project’s anti-violence against women Read More …
As part of The Last Days of Hong Kong Blog Tour, author G.D. Penman joins us with a guest post about how he wrote an urban fantasy noir series. Urban Fantasy Noir by G.D. Penman Defining Film Noir is kind of tricky. Some but not all have a stylised use of shadows. Some but not Read More …
Keith Rosson stopped by as part of the blog tour for his new story collection: Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons and shares what writing means to him. Be sure to enter for a chance to win a $50 gift card at the bottom of this post and check out his new book. Writing Means… by Read More …
Welcome Eugen Bacon, a talented writer and the author of the collection: The Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories. Writing Across Forms – by Eugen Bacon The Ghost of a Graph At the cusp of human and animal, what brings you by is something tragic or a coincidence of strangehood. You’re poised with a Read More …