Many Books
So far this week I've made potato leek soup, and chicken with mushroom and red wine gravy. We're still sort of having a cold front, in that it's only getting up to 86 during the day and going down to nearly 60 at night. Hoping it stays that way through the weekend.
Not much else going on right now except writing and cleaning the house. And getting back into aerobics class after a two week break over WorldCon. The instructor came back from training with a new obsession for dynamic planks, which has been kind of rough.
Oh, the sixth season of The Guild starts October 2!
Books:
The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer. This is the sequel to the The Whitefire Crossing, which I loved and gave a blurb to: A tense adventure fantasy with magic, intrigue, engaging characters in a desperate race to cross a deadly mountain range -- an exciting original read.
Forgot to mention that The Emperor's Knife by Mazarkis Williams is out in paperback now. 'A riveting and intense debut ... compelling characterizations will keep fans of grim fantasy entirely enthralled' Publisher's Weekly.
The first two books from Strange Chemistry, Angry Robot's new YA line, are out. (This is the publisher who will be doing my book Emilie and the Hollow World next April:
Blackwood by Gwenda Bond.
On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an outdoor drama for the tourists, a story people tell. But when the island faces the sudden disappearance of 114 people now, an unlikely pair of 17-year-olds may be the only hope of bringing them back.
Miranda, a misfit girl from the island's most infamous family, and Phillips, an exiled teen criminal who hears the voices of the dead, must dodge everyone from federal agents to long-dead alchemists as they work to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony. The one thing they can't dodge is each other.
Shift by Kim Curran.
When your average, 16-year old loser, Scott Tyler, meets the beautiful and mysterious Aubrey Jones, he learns he's not so average after all. He's a 'Shifter'. And that means he has the power to undo any decision he's ever made. At first, he thinks the power to shift is pretty cool. But as his world starts to unravel around him he realises that each time he uses his power, it has consequences; terrible unforeseen consequences. Shifting is going to get him killed. In a world where everything can change with a thought, Scott has to decide where he stands.
Near+Far by Cat Rambo.
Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo's masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Cats talk, fur wraps itself around you, aliens overstay their welcome, and superheroes deal with everyday problems. Rambo has been published in Asimov's, Weird Tales, and Tor.com among many others. She was an editor for Fantasy Magazine, has written numerous nonfiction articles and interviews, and has volunteered time with Broad Universe and Clarion West.
Saladin Ahmed, author of Throne of the Crescent Moon has a new ebook short story collection.
Gunslingers! Supervillains! Disgruntled actors! The short stories in this collection have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards. They’ve been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and many other anthologies, recorded for numerous podcasts, and translated into several foreign languages. Now they are collected in one place for the first time.
Steven Gould is doing a Twitter retweeting ARC giveaway for Impulse, the third book in the Jumper series that won't be out until January.
Not much else going on right now except writing and cleaning the house. And getting back into aerobics class after a two week break over WorldCon. The instructor came back from training with a new obsession for dynamic planks, which has been kind of rough.
Oh, the sixth season of The Guild starts October 2!
Books:
The Tainted City by Courtney Schafer. This is the sequel to the The Whitefire Crossing, which I loved and gave a blurb to: A tense adventure fantasy with magic, intrigue, engaging characters in a desperate race to cross a deadly mountain range -- an exciting original read.
Forgot to mention that The Emperor's Knife by Mazarkis Williams is out in paperback now. 'A riveting and intense debut ... compelling characterizations will keep fans of grim fantasy entirely enthralled' Publisher's Weekly.
The first two books from Strange Chemistry, Angry Robot's new YA line, are out. (This is the publisher who will be doing my book Emilie and the Hollow World next April:
Blackwood by Gwenda Bond.
On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an outdoor drama for the tourists, a story people tell. But when the island faces the sudden disappearance of 114 people now, an unlikely pair of 17-year-olds may be the only hope of bringing them back.
Miranda, a misfit girl from the island's most infamous family, and Phillips, an exiled teen criminal who hears the voices of the dead, must dodge everyone from federal agents to long-dead alchemists as they work to uncover the secrets of the new Lost Colony. The one thing they can't dodge is each other.
Shift by Kim Curran.
When your average, 16-year old loser, Scott Tyler, meets the beautiful and mysterious Aubrey Jones, he learns he's not so average after all. He's a 'Shifter'. And that means he has the power to undo any decision he's ever made. At first, he thinks the power to shift is pretty cool. But as his world starts to unravel around him he realises that each time he uses his power, it has consequences; terrible unforeseen consequences. Shifting is going to get him killed. In a world where everything can change with a thought, Scott has to decide where he stands.
Near+Far by Cat Rambo.
Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo's masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Cats talk, fur wraps itself around you, aliens overstay their welcome, and superheroes deal with everyday problems. Rambo has been published in Asimov's, Weird Tales, and Tor.com among many others. She was an editor for Fantasy Magazine, has written numerous nonfiction articles and interviews, and has volunteered time with Broad Universe and Clarion West.
Saladin Ahmed, author of Throne of the Crescent Moon has a new ebook short story collection.
Gunslingers! Supervillains! Disgruntled actors! The short stories in this collection have been nominated for the Nebula and Campbell awards. They’ve been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and many other anthologies, recorded for numerous podcasts, and translated into several foreign languages. Now they are collected in one place for the first time.
Steven Gould is doing a Twitter retweeting ARC giveaway for Impulse, the third book in the Jumper series that won't be out until January.
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