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Saturday Recommendations

Here we go again – and apologies for not posting last week.

This week I have been reading a variety of things, mostly non-fiction, and the fiction has been mostly comfort reads because I’ve been feeling in need of comfort. But I have grabbed one excellent piece of science fiction that kept me very happy for 48 hours or so.

Gravitational Attraction by Angel Martinez is a cracking romp of a space opera.

ESTO, an organisation that I imagine started off pretty much like the East India Trading Compa...

Today in the Comfy Chair – Kay Berrisford

Kay Berrisford writes contemporary paranormal and fantasy stories, usually set in her native England. Her latest book, The Merman and the Barbarian Pirate, is out 30th July from Less Than Three Press.

Kay has often visited my blog as a guest and has written several exciting posts but this is the first time she has ever settled into the comfy chair to answer my questions.

Welcome Kay and thanks for being such a good sport.

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Elin: Can you tell me a little about yourself? For instance, do you ha...

New Release – Repossession is 9/10ths of the Law by Hank Edwards

Repossession is 9/10ths of the Law by Hank Edwards is out today from Wilde City Press and it looks like loads of fun.

Blurb:

Alan Baxter barely scrapes by working as a deejay in suburban Detroit. To make ends meet, he takes a job as an automobile repossession agent, and discovers his very first assignment is a car owned by his drug dealer ex-boyfriend. On top of that, a body is discovered in the trunk…by a cop. Soon Alan’s life is completely upturned as he is pulled into a mystery involving mor...

New Release – Second Helpings by Charlie Cochrane.

So excited to see a new release from one of my fave authors! Here are the details.

Second Helpings

Blurb: Stuart Collins’s life might as well have ended a year ago when his partner died in a car crash. Even Stuart’s widowed father has found new love with an old friend, Isabel Franklin, so why can’t Stuart be bothered to try?

Then he gets a phone call from Isabel’s son, Paul, who wants to check out whether or not Mr. Collins is good enough for his mother. During dinner together, though, they end...

Oh good grief

I can generally put my hands on things if I need them. I’m also a bit anxious about old things and much inclined to wrap them in acid free tissue and keep them forever, to the detriment of the tidiness of the house. But I think this is the first time something has turned up that we didn’t even know we had.

Look what we just found in a shed.

Luckily it’s a nice dry shed and they were well wrapped up so the moth hadn’t got into them.

It’s a uniform edition of Shakespeare bound in marbled calf with...

What makes a book sell? Guest post by Elliott Mackle

Readers, help me out. A reviewer for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association concluded that my Joe Harding series is “A welcome addition to romance and military fiction collections, Captain Harding belongs in any adult fiction collection.” “Captain Harding’s Six-Day War,” the first book in what turned out to be a trilogy, was voted Best Romance by readers in the TLA Gaybies poll and named best book of 2011 by the historical romance blog, Spe...

Dragging out old stories

I’ve been trying to tidy up my hard drive in a vain attempt to get my laptop to run a bit more smoothly and I’m astonished by just how many stories I’ve got on it. One is finished – contemp romance, co-written with a friend that we decided needed beefing up a bit and never finished the beefing – but there are masses of others that are languishing there doing nothing in particular but take up space.

I’m wondering if I should try to finish one as a blog project. Maybe 300 words a week because th...

Saturday Recommendations

OMG folks. I have read SO much over the past couple of weeks that filled me with glee. All you writers are producing such GOOD work, or maybe I’ve been picky or lucky?

I dunno. But this week I decided to pick something completely different from last weeks rec – Joanna Chamber’s excellent Regency forensic romance – by going with a contemporary story that is part financial thriller, part psychological drama, part an examination of the dehumanising effects of power and just a little bit angsty ro...

Guest Post – Fantastical Nightmares from S. A. Garcia

I’m really pleased to be hosting S. A. Garcia today, in honour of her latest release, Canes and Scales, an exciting steampunk fantasy from Dreamspinner Press.

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Fantastical Nightmares

Nightmares are terrible things. I know many people claim they don’t remember their dreams, but I bet everyone remembers their nightmares, especially the dangerous ones.

Nightmares render us helpless. How many times have you tried to break free from a horrible dream but the damned thing just keeps grinding along? N...

New Release – Project Fierce Chicago

I’m very excited by the release of Project Fierce Chicago from Less Than Three Press and absolutely deighted that Dianne Hartock has agreed to answer some questions about it and about her writing process.

Welcome, Dianne, thanks for being here today.

Project Fierce is an excellent title, who came up with the idea for the anthology?

Isn’t this just an amazing title? Really catches one’s attention. It’s the name of the charity organization hoping to build a safe home for LGBTQ youth living on the...