About the Book Action, horror, politics, and sensuality combine in this stand-alone fantasy novel with series potential. Set in the world of the Eisner-nominated Artesia comic books. To find the Sword, unearth the Barrow. To unearth the Barrow, follow the Map. When a small crew of scoundrels, would-be heroes, deviants, and ruffians discover a map…

Wow, this week has been… well, busy… in a good way. Usually when I have news, it’s bad news. Cancer, back problems, cancer again, back problems again… You get the drill. This week it is all good. You see, my husband was offered his dream job with an absolutely amazing company. He just finished signing…

About the Book A different kingdom of wolves, woods and stranger, darker, creatures lies in wait for Michael Fay in the woods at the bottom of his family’s farm. Michael Fay is a normal boy, living with his grandparents on their family farm in rural Ireland. In the woods there are wolves; and other things, dangerous…

I don’t think I have ever done this before, but I have a few irons (read: books) in the proverbial fire right now, and I’m quite excited about quite all of them (this is really turning out to be an amazing year for books). I figured I’d tell you my first thoughts to whet your…

About the Book A prince with a quest. A commoner with mysterious powers. And dragons that demand to be freed—at any cost. Prince Corin has been chosen to free the dragons from their bondage to the Empire, but dragons aren’t big on directions. They have given him some of their power, but none of their…

A few fun dollops of news. A few weeks ago in this Books I’m Eyeing, I posted Crossover by Joel Shepherd. A few days ago, the UPS guy showed up at my door with, you guessed it, that book, and a nice note from Lisa, one of the lovely PR Guru’s at Pyr. What a…

About the Book As any reader of Jo Walton’s Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures,…

About the Book The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite—the Grisha. Could she be the key to…

About the Book Rome was the center of the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, but that didn’t stop it falling to Alaric the Goth, his horde of barbarian tribesmen and their wild spell-casting shamans. Having split the walls with their sorcery and slaughtered the inhabitants with their axes, the victors carved up…

This week has been absolutely amazing, but a lot of what is so amazing about it is something I can’t talk about right now. The other part of what is so awesome happened last night, and I CAN talk about that. I have an open invitation to authors: If you people ever travel through this…