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.

Weekly Schedule | October 22 – 26

Well, I did it. I really did it. I’m pretty thrilled about this because I didn’t think I’d manage to get posts scheduled for two weeks after my surgery, but here they are. Finally done. You can read my week 1 schedule (October 15 – 20) here.  Here is the list of posts you can…

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Next Week’s Schedule

I’m having surgery on Monday the 15th. I’ve been working VERY hard to prepare my family and my webpage for my absence this past week. I’m going to put up my schedule of posts for next week so my dear readers can be prepared as well. I hope you enjoy what’s coming down the pipe….

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Thoughts on Writer’s Block | Bryan Young

About the Author (in his words) I started my career as a storyteller in film and have co-directed (with Elias Pate) numerous shorts and two feature-length films.  Between us and on my own, I’ve been involved in writing almost 20 feature length screenplays.  I got into writing, assistant-direction, and producing of documentary films with This…

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Thoughts on Writer’s Block | John Auckland

About the Author John has worked in London for several years as a copywriter and now helps to run the boutique copy writing agency, Thread Writers. Yet, after all the writing he has done for businesses in the capital, John always dreamed of crafting new Universes in his readers’ minds. And so John’s first book…

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Thoughts on Writer’s Block | Paul Weimer

About the author Not really a Prince of Amber, but rather an ex-pat New Yorker that has found himself living in Minnesota for the last 9 years, Paul Weimer has been reading SF and Fantasy for over 30 years and exploring the world of roleplaying games for over 25 years. Almost as long as he has been reading and…

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A few odds and ends

First, today you can find a guest post written by yours truly over on Bastard Books. I was asked to write a little something about why urban fantasy and I don’t get along too well. I gave it some thought and I think I finally figured out the root of my dislike. I wrote a…

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Thoughts on Writer’s Block | David Annandale

About the Author David writes fiction in a variety of genres: SF/Fantasy, horror, thrillers; as well as non-fiction about film and video games. He also teaches courses on film, games, literature and creative writing. You can visit David’s blog here and follow him on Twitter. REVEALED! DISAPPOINTINGLY BANAL APPROACHES TO WRITER’S BLOCK If writer’s block…

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Re-Review | Tome of the Undergates – Sam Sykes

About the book Lenk can barely keep control of his mismatched adventurer band at the best of times (Gariath the dragon man sees humans as little more than prey, Kataria the Shict despises most humans, and the humans in the band are little better). When they’re not insulting each other’s religions they’re arguing about pay…

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Thoughts on Writer’s Block | Bradley P. Beaulieu

About the Author Bradley P. Beaulieu is the author of The Winds of Khalakovo the first of three planned books in The Lays of Anuskaya series. In addition to being an L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Award winner, Brad’s stories have appeared in various other publications, including Realms of Fantasy Magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Writers…

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Announcing | Writer’s Block

The other day I hit a wall when I was trying to write a review. This was incredibly annoying to me. I’ve never really had that problem before and it was rather hard for me to clear my mind, forget the frustration and find a new angle to write what I was trying to write….

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