Chapel of Ease – Alex Bledsoe

About the Book When Matt Johanssen, a young New York actor, auditions for “Chapel of Ease,” an off-Broadway musical, he is instantly charmed by Ray Parrish, the show’s writer and composer. They soon become friends; Matt learns that Ray’s people call themselves the Tufa and that the musical is based on the history of his…

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Behind the Throne – K. B. Wagers

About the Book Meet Hail: Captain. Gunrunner. Fugitive. Quick, sarcastic, and lethal, Hailimi Bristol doesn’t suffer fools gladly. She has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. That is, until two Trackers drag her back to her home planet to take…

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Editing: It’s time to jump

I’ve always wanted to be an editor. All this time that I’ve been reviewing books, I’ve been learning. Reading and learning, learning and reading. I’ve been trying my hardest to know this genre inside and out so that someday when I got brave enough I could put everything I’ve learned into good use for others….

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Upcoming Reads: A Grand List of Literary Things

I’ve fallen a bit off the wagon since my baby had her kidney issues. It’s been… rough. I’m taking her to the pediatric urologist on Thursday, and I’m already feeling this huge relief with knowing that in a few days I’ll not only have every answer I need, but a game plan, and I’ll know…

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Everfair – Nisi Shawl

About the Book Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium’s disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo’s…

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GIVEAWAY | Edgar Allan Poe Adult Coloring Book

I love adult coloring books. I love them. I plug myself into an audiobook, brew me a gigantic pot of tea, and zone out. They are just about the best things that ever happened to me and I’m incredibly glad they are a trend right now. The other day this little beauty showed up at…

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Ninth City Burning – J. Patrick Black

About the Book Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut… We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with…

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Quantum Night – Robert J. Sawyer

About the Book Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously—a dark time during…

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The Sight – Chloe Niell

About the Book The paranormal war that engulfed New Orleans seven years ago is over. But the battle for the city is just beginning . . .  Claire Connolly is a Sensitive, infected with magic when the Veil that divides humanity from the world beyond fell. Magic can easily consume and destroy a Sensitive, and…

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