Bits and Bobs
More reviews are up over at Sleeping Hedgehog (though why he continues to hog the hedges, I will never know).
In non-fiction, there's Boria Sax's City of Ravens , which is an attempt to get at the meat behind the myth of the ravens of the Tower of London. Then we go from birds to bats, with Death By Design . Neither of the two really did it for me; fortunately, there are some reviews of stuff that read a little better in the pipeline as well. And then there's strike three: The Angel of the Opera , a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that makes the critical blunder of bitching about the previous Sherlock Holmes material. If that's your opening play, you've got to be better than the source material, and this book...isn't.
In book news, I am exceedingly pleased to note that June 20th marks the first date when you will be able to get your hands on the long-awaited New Hero from Stone Skin Press, featuring my story "The 39th Labor of Reb Palache" and other tales of heroism, derring-do, and general awesomeness. Big thanks to the remarkable Robin Laws for letting me be a part of that project, as well as another one titled The Lion and the Aardvark . You can get a sneak peek at the cover here. I'll be writing a little more about where the Reb Palache character came from - you say the words "magical pirate rabbi" and people get curious - as we get closer to release date.
Congrats to everyone involved with Splinter Cell: Blacklist for knocking 'em dead last week at E3.
And if you're one of those folks who was wondering when you could get your mitts on a hardcopy of the deliciously creepy Don't Read This Book , the wait is over. It's OK. You can read this book. I actively encourage you to do so.
In non-fiction, there's Boria Sax's City of Ravens , which is an attempt to get at the meat behind the myth of the ravens of the Tower of London. Then we go from birds to bats, with Death By Design . Neither of the two really did it for me; fortunately, there are some reviews of stuff that read a little better in the pipeline as well. And then there's strike three: The Angel of the Opera , a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that makes the critical blunder of bitching about the previous Sherlock Holmes material. If that's your opening play, you've got to be better than the source material, and this book...isn't.
In book news, I am exceedingly pleased to note that June 20th marks the first date when you will be able to get your hands on the long-awaited New Hero from Stone Skin Press, featuring my story "The 39th Labor of Reb Palache" and other tales of heroism, derring-do, and general awesomeness. Big thanks to the remarkable Robin Laws for letting me be a part of that project, as well as another one titled The Lion and the Aardvark . You can get a sneak peek at the cover here. I'll be writing a little more about where the Reb Palache character came from - you say the words "magical pirate rabbi" and people get curious - as we get closer to release date.
Congrats to everyone involved with Splinter Cell: Blacklist for knocking 'em dead last week at E3.
And if you're one of those folks who was wondering when you could get your mitts on a hardcopy of the deliciously creepy Don't Read This Book , the wait is over. It's OK. You can read this book. I actively encourage you to do so.
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