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Author’s Online: How Much Is Too Much?

Author John Marco wrote an interesting blog regarding the importance publishers are putting on their authors being social media darlings these days. You can read the article here: The Happy Nerd That got me thinking: how do you guys view … Continue reading

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Book Review – Speaker for the Dead

Originally posted on I Read Encyclopedias for Fun:
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card is the second book in Ender’s Saga. What we have here is the sequel to the popular Ender’s Game, where Ender Wiggins has defeated…

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Wizard’s Coming Made Me Want to Leave!

My rating is 2 out of 5 stars. This was a decent short story, which introduces readers to Juliet E. McKenna’s The Hadrumal Crisis fantasy series. The Wizard’s Coming might actually be a true prequel to that series, but since … Continue reading

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Shadowbearer Is Good

My rating is 3 out of 5 stars. The Shadowbearer is a prequel to Terry C. Simpson’s Aegis of the Gods fantasy series, and while it has some shortcomings, it does an excellent job of introducing a reader to this … Continue reading

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9 Things Authors Should Never Do on Twitter

Originally posted on Savvy Writers & e-Books online:
. . If you want to become popular on Twitter and have your tweets go viral, avoid these errors, and check out the small, but significant issues you might not be aware…

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Upcoming Fantasy Novels in 2014 – Part 2

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Upcoming Fantasy Novels In 2014 – Part 1

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Cold Copper Tears Worth a Try

My rating is 3 out of 5 stars. This is the third novel in Glen Cook’s Garrett P.I. series, where our hero is a private investigator in a fantasy world. Garrett is an ex-military guy, who doesn’t go looking for … Continue reading

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Brokedown Palace More Political Than Fantastical

My rating is 1 out of 5 stars. Brokedown Palace is a fantasy fable, as told by Stephen Brust. The tale itself is set in the Dragaeran world of Vlad Taltos in the human (Easterner) kingdom of Fenario, which borders … Continue reading

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OVERLOOKED FANTASY SERIES (2014 EDITION)

We all have read “overlooked” fantasy series. You know the ones with hardly any publicity and little word of mouth, but you picked them up because you were bored, found it dirt cheap at a used book store, or got … Continue reading

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