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.

Cover Art Reveal | Triumph Over Tragedy

I don’t generally do cover art reveals, so if I’m doing one, you know it’s important. As many of you may or may not know, I’m helping edit (a few hours each night, in fact) the Triumph Over Tragedy anthology (brain child of R. T. Kaelin) dedicated to those effected by Superstorm Sandy. This project…

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London Eye – Tim Lebbon

About the book The Hunger Games meets The X-Men in an exciting post-apocalyptic debut. Two years after London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the world, protected by a military force known as Choppers. The rest of Britain believe that the city is now a toxic, uninhabited wasteland. But…

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Prey – Tim Marquitz

About the book Prey: A young, homeless man arrested for a gruesome crime; a respected politician bound for higher office; detective Shane Calvin finds himself caught in the middle as two seemingly disparate lives collide, the weight of their secrets threatening to destroy them all. Anathema: Chemist Jerrod Dawkins has lost everything: his job, his…

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Author Interview | Sam Sykes

Sam Sykes fascinates me, which probably makes me sound like a psycho stalker. Oh well. He’s one of the most humorous internet personalities I follow. He’s also one of the most complex authors, as he can manage to do what so many others struggle with. He can write these amazingly gory battle scenes and mix…

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The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

About the book 1916: the Western Front, France. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No man’s Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson has returned to…

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An anthology for Sandy victims and how you can help

I have a real soft spot in my heart for those affected by hurricanes. First, I’m from the area of impact, and I don’t like seeing the places I spent time as a kid being destroyed. Secondly, I was on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina and that, honestly, changed my life. It’s amazing to…

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Thoughts on Writer’s Block | R. T. Kaelin

About the author R.T. Kaelin is a loving husband, father of two wonderful children, and a lifelong resident of Ohio, currently in Columbus.  After graduating from college, for the first twelve years of his career he has worked as a software engineer.  After creatively writing a local gaming group, it was suggested he try his…

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Leviathan Wakes – James S. A. Corey

About the book Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew…

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God Save the Queen – Kate Locke

About the book Queen Victoria rules with an immortal fist.  The undead matriarch of a Britain where the Aristocracy is made up of werewolves and vampires, where goblins live underground and mothers know better than to let their children out after dark. A world where being nobility means being infected with the Plague (side-effects include…

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