Damn you, Chuck. The last thing I needed was another author addiction. I like my fantasy the same way I like my tea, black, unsweetened, and deep. Chuck Wendig is one of the rare authors who seems to tap into that without any shame or apology. That’s probably why, despite the fact that I’ve only…

I have spent two weeks sicker than a dog. I’m finally (after three doctor visits) getting over it (yay!) but all the downtime has given me a lot of time to think up ideas. One of my ideas I’m going to start on right away. I love talking about books, but I’m also anxious to…

About the Book Something is wrong in Aquae Sulis, Bath’s secret mirror city. The new season is starting and the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned with the task of finding him with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer. There…

About the Book Instead of the deadly force it once was, magic is now a useless novelty. But not for Shame Flynn and Terric Conley, “breakers” who have the gift for reverting magic back to its full-throttle power. In the magic-dense city of Portland, Oregon, keeping a low profile means keeping their gifts quiet. After…

I’m pretty sure I’m a sexist. I’m totally unfamiliar with Devon Monk, and I knew absolutely nothing about the author until I finished Hell Bent. You know why I read this book in the first place? Because I mentally associated the name “Devon” with a male, and the lack of a midriff-showing woman welding some…

About the Book For two years, Oriana Paredes has been a spy among the social elite of the Golden City, reporting back to her people, the sereia, sea folk banned from the city’s shores…. When her employer and only confidante decides to elope, Oriana agrees to accompany her to Paris. But before they can depart, the…

About the Book From the time he was a young boy, Gabriel Aterias knew he was destined to rise from the peasantry and become the Holy Knight of the Church of Dunrabian. By the time he was twenty four years old, he had already led the Church’s armies to greater victories than any other man…

Special Needs in Strange Worlds strikes again over on SF Signal. This week I talk about all the (very well done) disabilities in Jacqueline Koyanagi’s Ascension. Check it out. 

About the Book The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics possible on Stittara is fragile, and the Unity government has a vital interest…

You say: Hey Sarah, since you are a fascinating person and I can’t help but hang on your every word, what books are you most excited about in 2014? Me: I’m glad you asked…. (Note: Yes, there are a LOT of books I’ve forgotten, so feel free to add what I’ve forgotten or overlooked in…