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Category Archives: Books
In Review
There’s a nice little review of my novella, The lives of Perfect Creatures over at Indie Ebook Reviews. (Don’t worry about the typo issue in the first sentence, I’m pushing a fix out as we speak).
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Publishing News, etc.
The blog has been quite for the last month and for this I apologize. Despite not doing NaNoWriMo, I have been doing quite a bit of writing on the novel-in-progress (110,000 words to date), looking for a day job to … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned
So, instead of writing today, I spent all day reformatting and republishing my novella, The Lives of Perfect Creatures. Apparently, when I initially uploaded the files to Amazon, there was some sort of glitch that peppered the text liberally with … Continue reading
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What I’m Reading
Last week, I was floundering. I had just finished rereading The Hobbit, which is such a magnificent, sweet, fun adventure tale that it needed something comparable to ease me back to down to the mortal world of books that are … Continue reading
One More Shade of Grey, Just For Good Measure
For anyone who thought I was being harsh about Fifty Shades of Grey, here’s a review by Katrina Lumsden, who completely destroys any notion that it is in any way feminist: Now I’ll be totally honest, the biggest issue I … Continue reading
Fifty Shades of Perspective
Over at the New Statesmen, Laurie Penny writes in defense of Fifty Shades of Grey, and gets it all wrong: When you get down to it, the problem most people seem to have with Fifty Shades of Grey is that … Continue reading
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The World of the Angrazi Raj
The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling My rating: 4 of 5 stars Starting with an intriguing alternate history premise (a comet impact in the 19th century instigates the British empire to relocate to the Raj. By 2030, this Indian-English empire … Continue reading
The Word For Human In Any Language
Embassytown, By China Mieville This was a strange one. Not quite what you’d expect, either form a space opera or from China Mieville, and both in a good way. I don’t even know if you’d want to call it Space … Continue reading
As Goes Bella, So Goes the Nation
Over at Goodreads, they’ve discovered something interesting about the readers of the Twilight books (click the link to see the infographic): There is no more divisive book on Goodreads than Twilight. It manages to top both our Best Books Ever … Continue reading
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Crime and Punishment
While doing some research this morning, I came across this fascinating story about Russian poet and Novelist, Boris Pasternak, and his best known work, Doctor Zhivago: After his own novel was denied publication by the journal Novy Mir, Pasternak arranged … Continue reading
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