Mike Signor's Blog
November 8, 2023
Explosive Chemistry by Paige E. Ewing
I jumped at the chance to review an advance copy of Explosive Chemistry because I'd given five stars to Precise Oaths. I'm happy to report that Explosive Chemistry is even better.
The viewpoint character, Liliana, is a neuro-divergent spider seer. Her quirks appeared consistently. I enjoyed Liliana's focus on developing new friends and protecting them.
The urban fantasy setting is an environmentally repaired Fayetteville in the future. This future assumes little progress in computerization bet...
July 19, 2022
The Cozy Fantasy Movement
Cozy fantasy has been around since 2012 or before, but the cozy fantasy movement is booming in 2022.
A 2012 thread at SFF Chronicles discussed cozy fantasy: https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/536889/ Kit Mallory’s cosy fantasy Twitter thread in January of 2022 provided a burst of enthusiasm and book recommendations: https://twitter.com/kitkattus/status/1486249254805024769 The CozyFantasy subreddit created by S. L. Rowland in May is up to 2.5k members: https://www.reddit.com/r/CozyFanta...June 25, 2022
Comments on draft Amazon book description?
I'm drafting my first Amazon book description, for Bubble Bubble Witch in Trouble. I'd really appreciate any comments you may have on the current version below.
Tat McGee, grad student and disenfranchised witch, must regain her magick to survive the Maplewood Seat…
Maplewood’s magick hides in plain sight in a forgotten corner of modern Connecticut in this cozy small-town urban fantasy. The Maplewood Seat, a magickal relic charged with protecting Tat’s ancestral hometown, awakes after neglectin...
May 26, 2022
What sort of fantasy is it anyway?
Bubble Bubble Witch in Trouble differs in several ways from other fantasy novels you may have read.
This novel takes place in the small town of Maplewood rather than in a city Maplewood, one of the few places with enough magick to matter, hides in plain sight in a forgotten corner of Connecticut in the modern world we live in The romantic subplot enriches the story instead of driving it While most urban fantasy novels use the first person point of view, this story utilizes the third per...
