MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS:: Isaac Vainio, on the outs from the Porters and now without power, struggles with demons both personal and internal, as well as a threat to the [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: An annotated evisceration of the unpublished first novel of the author, by the author MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS:: Nakor is a very special elf, at the center [...]
In the last two podcast spotlights I featured Escape Pod, the first speculative fiction podcast, and Pseudopod, the first horror podcast. This installment is about Podcastle, [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Sarah Chorn’s highly successful Special Needs in Strange Worlds column…the recent Kaleidoscope [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Sure, we’d all like to own a Quidditch broom or a crystal ball, but what magical item would you want the [...]
Here’s the Gene Mollica cover and the synopsis for the upcoming novel Unbound by Jim C. Hines. This is the third book in the Magic Ex Libris series. Here’s the [...]
NOTE: This installment of Special Needs In Strange Worlds features a guest post from author Jim C. Hines! – Sarah Chorn Jim C. Hines is best known as a fantasy novelist [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] It’s 2014 and that means it’s time to look back at all the SF/F/H available in 2013. Our panelists were [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] From Star Wars to X-Men, Halo to Star Trek, many media franchises also offer tie-in novels, giving fans another way [...]
In this series, I ask various publishing professionals (including authors, bloggers, editors, agents etc.) to recommend two or three authors or books they feel haven’t [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] We asked this week’s panelists… Q: What are some of the most overdone tropes and stereotypes in SF/F? [...]
Author and Hugo Award-winning fan writer Jim C. Hines, he of the Women and Fantasy Covers post, is at it again…only this time in the name of charity. Jim has launched [...]
Best Fan Writer Hugo-winner Jim C. Hines nominated me to moderate the first panel I was ever on. He loves breaking in new writers. His Jig The Dragonslayer trilogy, now out [...]