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Launch Day! The Rise of Gadreel — The Writer Next Door | Vashti Q

Hi, everyone! Today is the ‘Launch Date‘ for my new book, The Rise of Gadreel! I was hoping the paperback would have gone live today too, but for some reason, Amazon still has it on review. I’m not surprised since everything this year has happened at its own pace. I’m told the paperback will be […] […]

This Week in Reading: In Like a Lion

Well, we’ve somehow made it to March! I can’t believe this year is going by so quickly. Now, I didn’t quite get all my reading done over the weekend and only managed to finish up one of the two books I had to complete. That being said, I did relisten to and this time finish […]

War of Nytefall: Savagery On the Horizon!

Cover Art by Alison Hunt Feels like it’s been a long time since I prepared for a new release.  Actually, it was early September and that had to be a decade ago.  Now, I’m preparing to release War of Nytefall: Savagery in about a month.  So begins the posts about Dawn Fangs and the upcoming story.  Hopefully, […]

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine – Book Review

A Desolation Called Peace makes half or more of the sci-fi works I’ve read over the last few years seem woefully incompetent. Arkady Martine’s second book is the sequel to the Hugo award-winning A Memory Called Empire. Memory introduced us readers to Martine’s masterfully crafted culture of Teixcalaan, which draws from many real-world empires and […]

Weekly Bestsellers, 1 March 2021

Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Silver Flames debuts spectacularly on print lists this week, ranking #1 on three of the four, though it’s dropped precipitously on the Amazon charts. Meanwhile, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (Knopf), released tomorrow, is selling today on the Amazon charts, and editions of Colin Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad […]

ODR Character Spotlight: A Wish and a Prayer

Wishton Ackford is the narrator of The Order of the Dark Rose. His perspective regarding his adventures and investigations with his business partner, Manny, are important to the book. Let’s take a look at his character. Wish is an unemployed copywriter, not a fighter, and certainly not a mage. In his world, not only is […]

Memoirs of fantasy. #Haiku reflections

“At the end you have to go back to the beginning.” As a young boy, I grew up on… Memoirs of fantasy. #Haiku reflections Nice poetic quality to this post…

DINOSAUR APOCALYPSE: WARNING SIGNS (PART 3)

As I brainstorm the potential warning signs of the upcoming dinosaur apocalypse in my dinosaur series, the scenarios are increasing in number and scale. I have seen nature documentaries that talked about how wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions would hunt domesticated livestock. Also, feral livestock such as cattle, goats, and hogs would raid and demolish […]

Top Ten Sci-fi/Fantasy Conlangs

Constructed languages, or conlangs as they’re called, are a staple in many science fiction and fantasy works. They add a depth to otherwise shallow worlds and a new level of complexity to already deep settings. The three things that ultimately relate the uniqueness of a culture are its religion(s) (or lack thereof), its art, and […]

Review – Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

There is something about this book that manages to transcend being just a great story and manages to reach out and touch the reader. The great “classic” works of speculative fiction, think Lord of the Rings or Dune, impress the reader with grand visions of alien and fantastical worlds. Transporting you from your own world […]