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July 3, 2018
Novel Sample: “Light Runner” – Chapter 1 & Chapter 2
Lissa sat in the control room of the silver, blue and black ship, listening to the rhythmic hum of the systems as the ship bled stars and planets across its trail. It was a solid, comforting sound, steady as the beating of a strong heart. It helped keep her own heartrate in check.
As she studied the coordinates she had wrestled out of the communication logs lifted from the Seventh Sun ship on Sciyat, her thumb traced back and forth across the collar around her throat. Her nai...
July 2, 2018
An Open Letter to Netgalley and Goodreads
Dear Netg...I am very out-of-touch with the ARC scene, but this just came on my radar and screams of unfairness. Limiting international readers’ access to review copies hurts them along with the authors trying to reach them, and frankly, I’m very surprised there hasn’t been any pushback from big publishing houses on this. Do they care so little for non-US markets?? Readers live all over the world, and books help connect them not only to authors, but to each other. Don’t sever that.
June 19, 2018
LIGHT RUNNER is live!
Light Runner is officially live in the Amazon and Smashwords ebook stores. This means you can now purchase the book in Kindle, iBook, nook, and other formats!
This brings the Star Hunters trilogy to a close. So, if you haven’t already, now is a perfect time to check out the first two books in the series, Chasing Shadows and Unbroken Light.
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Paperback editions will go up tomorrow evening, as soon as one final step is complete. They’ll be available through CreateSpace and Amazon, so put a bookm...
June 12, 2018
Review – Jade City
[image error]This book was incredible. I really liked Zeroboxer, but this is a whole new level of awesome. Fonda Lee continues to have some of the coolest concepts for her plots. Last time was zero gravity kickboxing, and this time, it’s magic-wielding gangsters.
The plot alone is riveting, but it’s the characters that make it so. All of them leap off the page and feel so real, even as they’re using jade to enhance their abilities to survive and deal impossible amounts of damage. The fights are tense, whe...
June 5, 2018
LIGHT RUNNER goes live in 2 weeks!!
The countdown to the release of Light Runner continues!
I’ve had some questions about this, so for anyone wondering, paperback editions are coming. It’s taking me longer than I expected to format the book for the print run (who knew a book almost twice the size as the first one would take more time, amirite?) but they are on their way!
For those who prefer digital copies, remember that Light Runner is currently available for preorder as an ebook through Amazon and Smashwords.
I’m so excited t...
May 29, 2018
Review – It Takes a Thief to Start a Fire
[image error]I really liked the first book in this series. This second one had me less enthralled, but I still enjoyed it.
We return to Jacques and Isabel and their new lives in Turlain, still scheming and thieving. We get to see more of the elementals that were mentioned in passing in the previous book, and with that, all of Jacques’s prejudices and asshatery. This may have detracted from my enjoyment of the book because there came a point where I started to actively dislike Jacques, and found him more a...
May 22, 2018
Review – Five Little Pigs
[image error]Another Hercules Poirot case!
Although interestingly, there’s far less Pirot here than I would’ve liked to see, so this sits more at 3.5 stars in my mind than the 4 stars I gave it on Goodreads. Half of the book consists of accounts from five different people who recount their memories of the day of a murder, which was interesting to sift though but did remove the detective himself. I really enjoyed the rest of the book, though, and actually managed to keep pace with Pirot this time around.
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May 15, 2018
Review – The Wonder Engine
[image error]A return to those wonderful, beautiful idiots that I fell in love with in The Clockwork Boys. This book picks up right where the previous one left off, and though there are a few slow spots where the characters are waiting and formulating plans, it’s still a darkly funny, creepy, imaginative fantasy that I thoroughly enjoyed.
My favorite characters all return, and watching them grow over the course of their journey was thrilling. And of course, getting some resolution with Slate and Caliban....
May 8, 2018
Review – Saga, Vol. 8
[image error]FINALLY a Saga volume with an all-around happy ending… and a beautiful everything else. The art continues to be stellar, and the writing was not afraid to hit hard this time. Picking up right where the previous installment left off, Volume 8 dives headfirst into a highly emotional, divisive issue, and handles it beautifully. I loved every moment of this Volume, and probably read it in record time. It’s such an engrossing read… and wow did I miss these characters.
I’m glad we got to see more o...
May 1, 2018
Review – Iron Will
[image error]I don’t know what it is with this series, but the first and third books were very good while the second and final books were… not so much. This review is littered with spoilers that I did not bother to hide, so proceed at your own risk. You’re good through the next paragraph, though.
I think the main issue with this series is that there wasn’t really a coherent overarching plot, and each book was almost like a clean slate for a new main issue to crop up and hold the focus. This really threw t...
