Category Archives: Books

In Review

Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 by Keith

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.

Posted on Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Keith

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

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012 by Keith

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

Posted on Monday, October 1, 2012 by Keith

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 →

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One More Shade of Grey, Just For Good Measure

Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 by Keith

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 →

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Fifty Shades of Perspective

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2012 by Keith

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

Posted on Monday, January 23, 2012 by Keith

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 →

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The Word For Human In Any Language

Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 by Keith

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 →

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As Goes Bella, So Goes the Nation

Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 by Keith

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

Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by Keith

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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