Fantasy and science fiction books and blogposts
Happy Halloween!! It’s spooky season so here are some great reads, both spooky and otherwise. And if you need more spooky recommendations I had a whole list of my favorite horror reads over 2021 that came out earlier this month, so go check that out. Let’s go! A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson I've... Continue Reading →
I've not been reading a lot because I've been writing and editing so much, and otherwise going on adventures. But here is my brief and belated list for the month of September! Sword Stone Table I've not been reading as many short stories as I'd like this year, largely because what time I spend in... Continue Reading →
I talk about some of my favorite short stories I've read this year.
Hello all, it's time for a general state of the author post, brought to you by myself, the author, who is a flop. I was very caught up in dayjob stuff for the month of September, which put me in the position of having not a lot of energy for anything else. The seasons are... Continue Reading →
Hey folks! I wanted to stop in and let you know that I'll be on The Story Hour, which is a free live short story reading, Wednesday 9/30 at 7pm PST (10 pm EST). I'll edit this post to add the recording once it is over, but I wanted to give folks a chance to... Continue Reading →
An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris The Gunnie Rose books were an unexpected find. My mother and I have been trading books during the pandemic, since all the libraries are closed and I'm trying to buy a lot less from Amazon. Strangely enough, these books feature a pandemic too -- an alternate timeline caused by... Continue Reading →
Hey folks! We had a limited-invite pop-up reading of A SINISTER QUARTET via Zoom last week, and I wanted to drop in to leave you the recording in case you didn't make it out. If you just want to catch the Q&A with the authors, fast forward to about the last thirty minutes to hear... Continue Reading →
Helloooo, fellow humans. April is over and things are bumping along here in good ol' Virginia. We're still under lockdown and cases are peaking across the state. Which is...fun. But hey! I've read a lot of books. So here's my reading roundup for the past few (semi-eternal) weeks. The City We Became This is definitely... Continue Reading →
This is the post where I try, desperately, to narrow things down enough to pick just ten - just ten! - short stories to talk about for the year of 2019. This is more short stories than I've ever put on my list before, and it was hard to just pick ten. There were so... Continue Reading →
I read a bunch of books over vacation, and I thought I would go through and give a brief review of each! Before I left, I put a story up on Instagram with my four vacation reads I'd picked out and why I was excited about them. Let's see how they held up. So I... Continue Reading →
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