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David Lee Holcomb

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After a career as a graphic designer for television news in Birmingham, Fort Lauderdale, and Dallas, David Lee Holcomb now lives in rural northwest Arkansas with his husband, a herd of cats, a few chickens, and that thing in the basement that sings strange songs late at night.

David also plays the saxophone, grows orchids, teaches art, and writes novels. Not necessarily in that order.

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The Bone Doll

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Lake Road, Last House

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Strange News

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Proof of life…

Sales on my first fantasy novel, Strange News, are going reasonably well — knock wood! In terms of costs, I may be on track to break even on this one by this time next year, at which point I hope to have a new book ready to hit the streets.

As for that work-in-progress, I’m halfway through the first draft, coming up on what the writing expert YouTubers call the “midpoint reversal.” The middle of ev

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The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
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A big, messy, sprawling romp. Abercrombie manages to incorporate humor into the mud and blood in a way that doesn't become self-referential or contrived. His characters evolve throughout the book, and no one is the same at the end as they were at the ...more
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Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross
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Last Tango in Cyberspace by Steven Kotler
Last Tango in Cyberspace
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Great pacing, and good action characters that don't devolve into cardboard cutouts. The protagonist was a little smug for my taste, but I'm probably not the target audience for this book. On the other hand, the world building was superb, and the cast ...more
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Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David  Wong
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There was so much wrong with this book, and I loved it all the way through.

The "peasant girl who discovers that she's a princess" trope should never have worked, but Zoey is so enthusiastically clueless that her stumbling from a trailer park to fabu
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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
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I picked this up because Evanovich seemed to have a million books out, and was curious to see what she was doing. I'm glad I did.

The pacing in this novel was smooth and brisk, and Evanovich does something with her characters that I would have thought
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Gogmagog by Jeff Noon
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Fabulous worldbuilding. If you're a fan of the dense, claustrophobic feel of something like Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" trilogy -- which I am -- you will probably enjoy this. That said, the inhabitants of Gormenghast are as memorable and inventive a ...more
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Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
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"Sharp Ends" is a series of short stories, loosely (very loosely) connected by characters and setting.

Abercrombie's characters feel a little like items from a fantasy checklist: the conflicted, self-absorbed narrator, the big, strong sidekick, the h
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Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
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I'm presently reading this book for the second time, after having just read the sequel, "Machine."

Bear's writing, the voice of the protagonist, is not particularly elegant, but the storytelling is first-rate, and the characters are believable and con
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