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Review: InSomnus by Molly Fennig

Description (from Amazon.com) The Red Queen meets science fiction in this “action-packed” novel packed with “wit” and “unexpected twists”. Bryony “Bryn” Winters can harm people by dreaming. With no control over whom she hurts, a condition called Somnus, Bryn can’t even be sure she won’t kill her own family. Protecting them means running away and…
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Review: The Raven and the Pig by Lou Kemp

Description (from Amazon.com) 1866, the Black Sea He has been wounded, and all that keeps Jonas Celwyn, an immortal peyote-eating magician alive is the power of an old enemy, his half-brother Pelaez. To survive, he must find the Immortal Healer, Thales. Jonas is taken aboard the submarine the Nautilus by his companions, Professor Xiau Kang, an automat,…
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Giveaway Time for Out of Due Season: The First Transit!

Now through February 7th… Enter to win one of 100 copies! Something epic is about to happen in a remote lake, and the genesis of a new world–and new series–is underway. What if humanity had a second chance? On a June afternoon, a body is discovered floating in a remote lake in northwestern Washington. When…
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On Writing a Synopsis, Blurb, Logline and Tagline

It’s the same for every writer, I suppose: the synopsis is a beast that guards the gates of publication, one that rears its ugly head right after finishing a 100,000-word novel. So, how do you best write one? Sure, you can write100,000 words (or much, much more), but can you condense all that into a…
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Review: The Living Sword by Pemry Janes

Description (from Amazon.com) Eurik was found adrift by the san and raised by them. Though he had read much about the outside world, he’d never considered leaving home. Not until his teacher revealed what he had inherited from his parents: a living sword, a sentient blade of rare power . . . and with it,…
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Review: Aestus: Book 1: The City by S. Z. Attwell

Description (from Amazon.com) An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. A society under attack. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed first. When Jossey was ten, the creatures of the aboveground took her brother and left her…
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A Semi-Not-Horribly-Regular Newsletter #4

In this issue: Out of Due Season Preorder Information, the 2022 Indie Author Review Program, Book News, New Posts, Out Now, This Past Few Week’s Work, and Recent Reads (a review). Preorder Now You can now preorder Out of Due Season: The First Transit from Amazon. When you do, you’ll have the chance to enter…
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What’s That? A Chance to Win a What?

In this issue: Out of Due Season Preorder Information, the 2022 Indie Author Review Program, Book News, New Posts, Out Now, This Past Few Week’s Work, and Recent Reads (a review). Preorder Now You can now preorder Out of Due Season: The First Transit from Amazon. When you do, you’ll have the chance to enter…
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Review: The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy by Arik Kershenbaum

Description (from Amazon.com) From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be…
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Review: Greek Island Life: Fieldwork on Anafi by Margaret E. Kenna

Description (from Amazon.com) Sixteen months on a small Greek island? Not the holiday of a lifetime, but the start of anthropologist Margaret E. Kenna’s involvement with the residents of Anafi and its migrant community in Athens. Greek Island Life gives a vivid and engaging account of research on Anafi in the 1960s, and is based…
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