If you checked in here anytime between Friday afternoon and Sunday night, you would have seen a post where Maria V. Snyder talked about how she develops fantasy maps for her books. I have decided to remove this post; if you’d like to read it, you can see it at Seeing Night Book Reviews. In fact, I chose to remove it specifically because you can read it elsewhere. As I explained to the publicist who contacted me about the book […]
The Leaning Pile of Books
It shouldn’t lean too much this week as there is only one new book to add to the pile! (For now. I am going to the bookstore to have coffee with a friend later today so that could change.) One unsolicited review copy showed up this week. Seven Princes by John R. Fultz This is a debut novel and the first volume in a new series, Books of the Shaper. Seven Princes was just released earlier this month, and the […]
The Leaning Pile of Books
This is a little late this week due to the holidays and all the end of the year posts I wrote instead. I got a lot of books off my wishlist this this year and there’s also one review copy. After this, hopefully I can get back to writing reviews since I need to review a lot of books – Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer, The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima, Heroes Adfrift […]
With this busy week, I realized I never let you all know that a winner had been selected for the copy of Miserere. By the time I let you know, the winner has given me their address, but I just like to give everyone a heads up so you don’t wonder about what happened with the contest. The winner is: Kevin from North Carolina, US Congratulations and I hope you enjoy the book! For everyone else, there is still a […]
Favorite Books of 2011
It’s that time of year again – time to reflect on favorites of 2011. I always have a terrible time with this because it’s so hard to pick books with all their different strengths and weaknesses, and this year I had a really terrible time because there were 12 books I wanted to stuff into the top 10. That’s with books divided into a top 10 published in 2011 and a top 5 of older books, so I’d say I […]
Excerpt from The Winds of Winter by George R. R. Martin
As a Christmas gift to his fans, George R. R. Martin put up a sample chapter from The Winds of Winter. It will be at the beginning of this book, but it actually takes place before the end of A Dance With Dragons. Enjoy!
