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5 Ways Bad Reviews Can Help You

If you’ve ever had your work out in the public domain, you’ve almost certainly garnered yourself a bad review or two. These can range from professional reviews that question valid problems with your work to ranting, frothing diatribes that question everything from your parentage to your humanity. And it sucks. A bad review can make [...]

Book Review: Marco and The Red Granny by Mur Lafferty

I’m surprised Marco and The Red Granny hasn’t been optioned for a film. Mur Lafferty has created an intriguing and unique setting for the tale of graphic novel artist and writer Marco that feels both very possible and cinematic at the same time.   Plus, low g gladiatorial combat on the moon and an octogenarian [...]

Book Review: Avempartha by Michael J Sullivan

Disclaimer: This is not going to be an unbiased review. It’s the truth, but I can’t say it’s unbiased because Michael’s wife Robin (of Ridan Publishing) has been amazingly helpful in doing interviews with me and laying out their self publishing plan. Avempartha is part two of Michael J Sullivan’s Ririya Revelations series that follows [...]

Book Review: The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J Sullivan

Note: The Crown Conspiracy is the first book in Michael J Sullivan’s six book series The Riyria Revelations. I’m writing this after reading all the way up until book five and this review is for the Crown Conspiracy as part of the wider series. I’d almost given up reading fantasy by people not named Terry [...]

Book Review: When The Hero Comes Home edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood

  When The Hero Comes Home edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood, was a real surprise. I expected it to be good, but I wasn’t expecting it to be as moving as it was. This is a perfect example of how an anthology of stories should work, individual tales tied together by a cohesive theme. [...]

Book Review: Confessions Of A Freelance Penmonkey By Chuck Wendig

*UPDATED WITH WINNERS* Yes, I said winners. I chose one comment at random (actually my cat did. She knocked over the hat full of numbers and in the end there was only one left in it). I also picked one because it contained the bit of advice I wish I’d gotten. Actually I did get [...]

Book Review: Irregular Creatures by Chuck Wendig

Irregular Creatures by Chuck Wendig My rating: 5 of 5 stars Irregular Creatures is a collection of short stories from self described freelance pen monkey Chuck Wendig. Each of the stories features a different strange creature, including (but not limited to) flying cats, mermaids, aliens and radioactive monkeys. You heard me. My favorite was the [...]

Book Review: Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow

Night Shift by Lilith Saintcrow My rating: 5 of 5 stars Night Shift is Urban Fantasy gone hardcore. Protagonist Jill Kismet runs and guns her way through so many of Hell’s denizens you wonder why the Hellbreed ever stick their heads above the ground at all. Jill is a hunter, a human trained to lay [...]

Book Review: Unholy Magic by Stacia Kane

Unholy Magic by Stacia Kane My rating: 5 of 5 stars Unholy Magic is the follow up to Unholy Ghosts, and part two of Stacia Kane’s urban fantasy series. I thought City Of Ghosts was excellent, everything an urban fantasy should be. Unholy Magic is better. The plot follows Church debunker Chess Putnam as sh [...]

Review Of Phil Rossi’s Crescent

I’ve just finished reviewing Phil Rossi’s awesome novel Crescent. If excellent sci-fi with a horror twist tickles your taste buds then check out the review right here.

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