First of all, thanks to everyone who entered my Among Others giveaway. I just did the handy-dandy computer randomizer program. The winner for this contest is Judith @ Leeswammes’ Blog. Judith, please email me at bookwormblues @ live (dot) com with your mailing address and I’ll get the book in the mail for you as soon…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book The colony was founded seventy years ago. The plan was originally to mine silver, but there turned out not to be any. Now an uneasy peace exists on the island, between the colonists and the once-noble met’Oc, a family in exile on a remote stronghold for their role in a vaguely remembered…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book This direct sequel to Elizabeth Bear’s highly acclaimed All the Windwracked Stars picks up the story some fifty years after Muire went into the sea and became the new Bearer of Burdens. Beautiful Cathoair, now an immortal warrior angel, has been called back to the city of Eiledon to raise his son–Muire’s son as…
Continue ReadingThe lovely people at Tor sent me a brand new hardcover copy (complete with a snazzy matching bookmark) of Among Others by Jo Walton. Seeing as how I already have the ARC version of this book, I’ve decided it’s time for me to do another giveaway, only this time it’s open to readers in the…
Continue ReadingAbout 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…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book War has come to Melengar. To save her realm, Princess Arista must reach the leader of the Nationalists and convince him to join forces. She turns to two trusted mercenaries to provide escort, but finds the team on the verge of dissolution. Hadrian is tired of his lecherous profession and longs for…
Continue ReadingHey all, I feel like I’ve been saying this a lot recently but I’m doing it again. I’m going silent for a few days. I won’t post or be active on facebook, twitter or here until after Monday. All I’ll say right now is that another huge bomb was dropped on me when I was…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book All Opal wanted was to be respected as a wielder of magic, but her teachers passed her over time and time again. When a mysterious warlord embarks on a conquest to destroy the lands of Illyia Opal seizes an opportunity to step out from the shadows of her instructors and take her…
Continue ReadingWell, it’s that time of year again – the time to set goals and pretend like we are going to stick to them. Some of us will manage it, others won’t. Most of us will fall in the space between where we accomplish some, but not others. I always kind of enjoy reading New Years…
Continue ReadingAbout the Book Melanie Rawn’s best-selling debut is a novel of love and war, magic and madness, and deadly dangerous dragons that hold the secret to unimaginable wealth that could prove key to mutual peace-or a bloody tyrant’s reign. And among it all, an idealistic young ruler struggles to civilize a culture that understands the…
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