Maplecroft Links Round-Up and other Whatnot

So it's been a most excellent week, with the outstanding Kat Richardson hanging out here in Tennessee - plus Bonus! visits from other miscellaneous old friends (including Derek Tatum). We wined. We dined. We went sight-seeing, in accordance with tourist law.



Tomorrow, I have to take Kat back to the airport, that she may return to the Pacific Northwest. And the southeast will be that much less awesome.

[:: sigh ::]

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IN BRIGHTER NEWS. Maplecroft has the book world chatting, thank GOD. Like dear Oscar said, the only thing worse than being talked about ... is not being talked about. So here, I offer a roundup of the highlights:
Romantic Times gives me a heart attack - By bestowing a 4-1/2 star rating upon Maplecroft, that's how. I'm not even kidding, I was STUNNED. RT has reviewed very little of my material; and typically, those reviews have been not so much, shall we say, glowing. So this one? This one had me dancing on air.

i09 compiles a list - A list of the "Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Must Not Miss in September." Maplecroft is #3. BOOM.

Mania.com weighs in - "For lovers of the gothic and macabre, Maplecroft is an unflinchingly grotesque glare into the maws of madness. Blood and viscera spatter readers in a miasmic mix of retched and revolting. This should surprise no one coming from Priest, who is fresh off a series centered on toxic steampunk zombies. Maplecroft is loftier, aspiring to the mountains of madness from whose peaks unfathomable insanity rains down. Succeeding to the summit is a superb work which wields both mastery over the classic forms of Lovecraft and Stoker, and the keenly honed blade of modern sensibilities."

Den of Geek chimes in, too - "...If you haven’t guessed it, I highly recommend Maplecroft."

Maplecroft audio book - YES. We've got one. Let me help you with that - click this-here link to visit Tantor Audio, where you can find it in handy-dandy audio CD or MP3 CD format. Go ye thereforth, and order.