I am a book blogger and the owner of Bookworm Blues - a popular speculative fiction book review website. I have been a compulsive reader all my life. Early on found my reading niche in the fantastic genre of Speculative Fiction. I blame my active imagination for the hobbies that threaten to consume my life. A freelance writer and photographer, world traveler and recent college graduate, I'm also a new mother, cancer fighter & survivor. In my ideal world, I'd do nothing but drink lots of tea and read from a never ending pile of speculative fiction books. Respected as a reviewer, I receive book ARCs from all of the major and most minor publishers in science fiction and fantasy. But given my love of stories, I've always wanted to be a part of the creative process, and editing is my first step in that direction.

Special Needs in Strange Worlds | Myke Cole

About the Author As a secu­rity con­tractor, gov­ern­ment civilian and mil­i­tary officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforce­ment. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deep­water Horizon oil spill. All that con­flict can wear a guy out. Thank good­ness for…

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Special Needs in Strange Worlds Kickoff

I wasn’t planning on doing this until Monday, but life has a way of exploding in my face. My doctor called today and said if he didn’t operate on my back ASAP, I’m running the risk of paralysis, which would be permanent. I go in for surgery first thing in the morning. I learned that…

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Necessary Evil – Ian Tregillis

About the Book 12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of “our” Britain’s best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already…

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An Aside | Inactivity

I haven’t been incredibly active recently. On Twitter, I’ve mentioned health problems. Well, last October I had surgery on my spine. Around December it started hurting again. It’s deteriorated to the point where I called my doctor last week in tears because I hurt so bad I couldn’t walk. I went back to the doctor,…

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Grail of the Summer Stars – Freda Warrington

About the Book The climactic concluding novel in the spellbinding magical contemporary fantasy Aetherial Tales trilogy A painting, depicting haunting scenes of a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, arrives unheralded in an art gallery with a cryptic note saying, “The world needs to see this.” The painting begins to change…

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Iron Kin – M.J. Scott

About the Book Imagine a city divided. Fae and human mages on one side, vampire Blood Lords and shape-shifting Beast Kind on the other. Between these supernatural forces stands a peace treaty that threatens to shatter at the slightest provocation…. I was raised to do the right thing. But to my family that means staying…

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Save my email!

I usually leave the deep thoughts and intelligent essays to other bloggers who are far better at it than I am. However, today I guess I will break that rule because, honestly, I’m getting a bit miffed so I’m going to share my rantiness to the world. My website generally gets about 1,000 hits a…

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Resurrection – Tim Marquitz

About the Book Armageddon averted, the world returns to business as usual. Unfortunately for Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg, business as usual sucks. His night out interrupted by a horde of kidnapping zombies, what could possibly be worse? The resurrection of the Anti-Christ, that’s what. Caught in the middle of a supernatural pissing match between the Devil’s…

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