Some review snippets
The January/February edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is out and my Raffalon story, "Telltale," is getting some nice reviews.
At Locus Online, Lois Tilton notes correctly that this episode in the archetypal thief's career has the ring of fairy tale about it -- a kind of Scheherazade in reverse -- but sums it up as "entertaining stuff."
At Tangent Online, reviewer Nicky Magas says, "Hughes neither over-explains nor hoards details, giving the reader the feeling of a natural character and world, even if they are experiencing it for the first time. Raffalon is a casually charming character, and set alongside neat, unobtrusive prose, “Telltale” is an easily digestible fantasy adventure story."
And though I don't usually take official note of Goodreads reviews, except to feel good about the positive ones, I was especially pleased by a recent one for my story "Greeves and the Evening Star,' in the George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois co-edited theme anthology, Old Venus. A reader/reviewer named Andrew Caldwell, like me a P.G. Wodehouse devotee, said, " Not only did I hurt myself laughing and brought on an asthma attack but I thoroughly enjoyed the story. It is immensely well written, exciting and perhaps the funniest short story I have read in the last ten years. 5/5 "
And finally, for anyone who's interested, I'm working on the second draft of my historical novel and hope to have it in shape by the end of the month. After that, there will be a third draft to really polish the prose.
At Locus Online, Lois Tilton notes correctly that this episode in the archetypal thief's career has the ring of fairy tale about it -- a kind of Scheherazade in reverse -- but sums it up as "entertaining stuff."
At Tangent Online, reviewer Nicky Magas says, "Hughes neither over-explains nor hoards details, giving the reader the feeling of a natural character and world, even if they are experiencing it for the first time. Raffalon is a casually charming character, and set alongside neat, unobtrusive prose, “Telltale” is an easily digestible fantasy adventure story."
And though I don't usually take official note of Goodreads reviews, except to feel good about the positive ones, I was especially pleased by a recent one for my story "Greeves and the Evening Star,' in the George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois co-edited theme anthology, Old Venus. A reader/reviewer named Andrew Caldwell, like me a P.G. Wodehouse devotee, said, " Not only did I hurt myself laughing and brought on an asthma attack but I thoroughly enjoyed the story. It is immensely well written, exciting and perhaps the funniest short story I have read in the last ten years. 5/5 "
And finally, for anyone who's interested, I'm working on the second draft of my historical novel and hope to have it in shape by the end of the month. After that, there will be a third draft to really polish the prose.
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