Robert Jackson Bennett really needs no introduction. The man is a true wordsmith and just won the Edgar Award for The Company Man to prove it. He’s also incredibly nice and very easy to talk to. I’ve recently become a huge fan of his due to his books The Troupe (which you really, really need…
Continue ReadingFirst, I have the wonderful Elspeth Cooper and her fantastic guest post “Disability in Fantasy” to thank for the idea to get this event rolling. Secondly, I have to thank my disabled big brother Rob, the person who got me started reading fantasy in the first place, for his comment, “Finally, someone’s talking about how…
Continue ReadingAbout the book Many tales are told of the Syldoon Empire and its fearsome soldiers, who are known throughout the world for their treachery and atrocities. Some say that the Syldoon eat virgins and babies–or perhaps their own mothers. Arkamondos, a bookish young scribe, suspects that the Syldoon’s dire reputation may have grown in the…
Continue ReadingIt’s crazy to think that, due to my stupid cancer, my quality of life basically hinges on the effect of this pill, which I must take every morning for the rest of my life. It’s even more crazy to think that when the hormones this pill gives me aren’t properly balanced, I feel like sweet…
Continue ReadingAbout the book As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ’s boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip…
Continue ReadingAbout the book It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is not one of them. He searches for one thing, and one thing only. Revenge. Because out there, riding the rails, stalking the camps, is the scarred vagrant…
Continue ReadingI don’t normally do weekly reviews, but this was a really full week so I think it warrants the first ever weekly review I’ve done. Lots of neat things have happened around good ‘ol Bookworm Blues. Check out the links for more information. April 16: I guest post on The Speculative Scotsman to talk about…
Continue ReadingAbout the book Moon has spent his life hiding what he is—a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again discovered…
Continue ReadingAbout the book Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, in the summer of 1892, a grisly new witch hunt is beginning…. When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute’s murder in Portland, Maine, he’s surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to…
Continue ReadingYou may or may not have noticed that I get pretty excited pretty easily and when I get excited I like to share my excitement with the whole world. Waiting is hard. I was going to wait to post this interview next week but I just can’t do it. I’m too excited. Bradley Beaulieu made…
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