I’ve seen a couple of release dates lately that caught my interest. Nation, the upcoming young adult book by Terry Pratchett, is scheduled for release on September 30 of this year. This is not a book in the Discworld universe but is a book he has had in mind for a few years and finally decided to write. It is available for preorder on Amazon. There is an announcement on George R. R. Martin’s news page that the next “Wild […]

This post on Ann Aguirre’s blog answering reader’s questions about her novel Grimspace is absolutely hilarious. Apparently the ladies go wild for Vel. Who would have guessed a bug-alien would be so hot? Edit: Oops, had the wrong link to the post. I guess I didn’t actually copy the link and the last one I had was for a work-related site I was debugging in Internet Explorer earlier. It actually goes to the right post now, though!

Last Dragonby J.M. McDermott400pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 3.94/5Good Reads Rating: 3.25/5 J.M. McDermott’s debut Last Dragon is one of the books published under the new Wizards of the Coast Discoveries imprint. Discoveries includes novels by new authors in all types of speculative fiction instead of just epic fantasy with settings outside of the Forgotten Realms universe. The goal is to publish more mature fiction that appeals to adult readers instead of the simplistic but fun stories that […]

Hoodby Stephen Lawhead496pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 3.94/5Good Reads Rating: 3.96/5 Hood is the first book in the new “King Raven” trilogy by Stephen Lawhead. Scarlet, the second book in the series, is also available, but the concluding volume Tuck has not yet been released. Much like the tales of King Arthur, Robin Hood is a story that has evolved over the years and Lawhead wanted to tell the tale set during the time it seems to have […]

Recently, I read and enjoyed Ann Aguirre’s first novel in the Jax series, Grimspace (my review). There are several short stories available for free on Aguirre’s website that may be worth checking out. I haven’t actually read any of them so I’m not sure how they compare to Grimspace. Even though I’m not a big short story fan, I am looking forward to reading the forthcoming story Renegade, which takes place in the Jax universe and is told from the […]