“Calling this story a retelling of Tam Lin doesn’t do it justice. Gilman has taken the bones of that fairy tale and reassembled it entirely, restrung with strength and ferocity and drive outside that pale relationship between a woman and her lost lover. Jan’s journey starts to find Tyler, but ultimately she finds so much […]
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And so, HEART OF BRIAR is launched. It’s strange, really.  That was a book I’d never planned to write – a distinct change from my usual theme and style – and looking back on it now a year later, it’s almost as though someone else wrote it.  Although it’s pretty clear that Martin, AJ and Jan
The truth is that in recent years the idea of a single launch day has pretty much fallen into disuse, if only because the physical books are on the shelf before the digital books are officially released. Â But still, it’s nice to have a single point in time when you say, “It’s here! Â It’s a
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“Heart of Briar is an engaging fantasy read that works to turn a number of fantasy tropes and legends on their heads. There are elements from traditional tales like Tam Lin to ideas that would be more at home in a modern paranormal romance, mixed together and subverted.” (from GoodReads) Why yes, yes I did.
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Summer is Road Trip season, so the folks at SF Signal asked us about our favorite SF/Fnal road trip… (as usual, I seem to wander down a slightly different path than the others…)
Time to take a little road trip…. Read More »
We’re working on getting the first two Sylvan Investigation stories ready for their general release (October, for those of you waiting), and part of that is proofing the digital formats (ALL the digital formats. Â Dear Universe, all we want for our birthdays is One Universal e-Format, please?). Â Which means I’m skimming for obvious typos and
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William Bartram, 1739-1823 Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with
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For those of you who’ve read the Nebula-nominated Vineart War trilogy, or have thought about reading the Vineart War trilogy, or have any curiosity at all about an epic fantasy adventure based on wine magic… You can now read “Dirt on their Hands,” Jerzy’s origin story – originally available only to the kickstarter patrons of
Pre-order now and have it show up like magic! (really like magic, if you order a digital edition!) He has been taken. And you are his only chance.â€Â That wasn’t something Jan expected to hear-especially from strangers who’d just rescued her from some mysterious and ferocious creatures. And she really hadn’t expected her rescuers to be
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This past week, news broke in the SF community that there had been yet another complaint about sexual harassment lodged against a well-known editor. This editor had been censured previously, back in 2010, but it turned out that none of the complaints had been “officially” registered. That has now changed. And the fact that previous complaints
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