Mandy Burkhead's Blog: The Burkshelf, page 3
March 27, 2018
Shelf Life – The Chronicles of Ixia merits closer study
I love fantasy novels, but I have a hard time sticking with a series that has more than four books, especially if they follow a single main character. What can I say; I’m a trilogy kind of girl. However, Maria V. Snyder did an excellent job of keeping me hooked all the way through the end of her nine-book series, The Chronicles of Ixia (AKA Poison Study, AKA Soulfinder—publishers really need to learn to just find one series name and stick with it). It helps that the nine books are divided int...
March 4, 2018
The Black Lily is free for the next week!
In celebration of Read An Ebook Week, The Black Lily is available for free on Smashwords from March 4-10, 2018!
Click on the image below to get your free copy, and while you’re at it, check out the thousands of other free ebooks available on Smashwords.

January 25, 2018
Author Interview
Blogger Ammar Habib interviewed us about our writing style, technique, and current works in progress. The full interview can be read here.
January 20, 2018
Mandy is going to be featured in an anthology!
I’m being published in an upcoming anthology: Tennessee’s Best Emerging Poets by Z Publishing. My poem is titled “My Imagination.” You can purchase a copy by clicking on the image below. I will receive a $4 royalty for any copies purchased through this link. -Mandy
January 19, 2018
The Burkshelf
Anything with the label Shelf Life is a book review.
The website is shared with my husband, G.D. Burkhead, but the posts here are only those aut These are blog posts from my website, www.burkshelf.com.
Anything with the label Shelf Life is a book review.
The website is shared with my husband, G.D. Burkhead, but the posts here are only those authored by me. To view his posts, visit his Goodreads blog, or go to the website to see all blog posts together. ...more
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