About the Book Three generations ago Captain Vidarian Rulorat’s great-grandfather gave up an imperial commission to commit social catastrophe by marrying a fire priestess. For love, he unwittingly doomed his family to generations of a rare genetic disease that follows families who cross elemental boundaries. Now Vidarian, the last surviving member of the Rulorat family,…

About the Book In a world steeped in darkness, a new breed of evil has fallen…  London’s ruined economy has pushed everyone to the breaking point, and even the police rely on bribes and deals with criminals to survive. Detective Inspector Cass Jones struggles to keep integrity in the police force, but now, two gory…

About the Book Death stalks the haunted, windswept prairie in this chilling sequel to Wide Open Now that she’s solved her sister’s murder, Hallie Michaels has left the army and isn’t sure what to do next. Her relationship with deputy Boyd Davies is tentative, there’s still distance between her and her father, and she needs…

About the Book 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t…

About the Book On Jeroun, there is no question as to whether God exists—only what his intentions are. Under the looming judgment of Adrash and his ultimate weapon—a string of spinning spheres beside the moon known as The Needle—warring factions of white and black suits prove their opposition to the orbiting god with the great…

About the Book Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist — and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod…

Well, yesterday there was a minor medical emergency in my house. We are all okay, but we spent a good chunk of the evening with doctors while one of us got stitched up. Now I’m just exhausted. I don’t handle stuff like that well, I guess. So instead of reviewing, you get my second ever…

About the Book Buffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasy Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has…

Last year I organized and hosted an event called Special Needs in Strange Worlds. This event was basically a month of guest posts from authors and bloggers highlighting the importance and impact of special needs and differently abled characters in speculative fiction. It was wildly successful (I had close to 50,000 hits in that month…

I get asked to spread news, cover art, or press releases all the time. I usually don’t do it. I’ll ignore those emails because I figure that someone else will spread the news better than I will. However, recently I’ve decided that that’s kind of a ridiculous stance for me. I have decided to do…