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Review | “Steelheart” by Brandon Sanderson

What it’s about (from Goodreads): Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush […]

Review | All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

“You have to kill him.” Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain. Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of […]

Review | The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair. I remember when orphaned […]

Review | The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

Back Cover Summary: The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians? John Smith—Number Four—thought that things would change once the Garde found each other. They would stop running. They would fight the Mogadorians. And they would win. But he was wrong. After facing […]

Review | The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He […]

Update | Junkpunk novel revisions complete!

Reviews and musings over the past few months have been few and far between. For good reason. I’ve been working hard on revising my junkpunk novel. Those revisions are complete as of tonight! An author is supposed to cut the unwanted fat from a manuscript but I think I added more content in total. You […]

Musings | Cover Attraction

I love comic books. As a little kid you couldn’t drag me into a book store or library. But tell me we’re going to the comic book store–Mega City Comics was my local haunt–and I dashed inside! You see, reading never appealed to me. Even with comic books, I never read the words in the [...]

Review | The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Summary from Goodreads.com: More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild Chalklings — merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. Having [...]

Musings | Skipping to the Last Page

Ever have the itch to skip to the last page of a book, the final chapter, just to see how the story ends? You may have felt the itch 50 pages in to a 300 page book, just as the hook wraps around and yanks you into the story. Or maybe the day is Thursday, [...]

Reveals | Monsters take over IAM 2013 month

Today is the day! All this month IAM 2013 has reigned over at Aside From Writing (click here to visit the festivities). And today Bo, Isis, Trick, and Peppy take over Aside From writing! While I’m still working on the last (copy) edits for the novel, I did want to rip back the veil on [...]