S.D. Reeves

Dragon Kingdom & the Wishing Stone, a review

March 4, 2020 By S.D. Reeves Leave a Comment

Chapters open with poetic whimsy, spill-over with jaunts of effective prose, get stuck to the roof of your mouth with their sprinkles of pictures, and skip around in a first-person narrative as merrily as a child through puddles in their fresh Sunday wear. Yes, yes, a run-on sentence – but this is a children’s book, so get out of bed you grump and follow along. Sing a nice little tune, too, for the Dragon Kingdom and the Wishing Stone is a happy little novel. And what is wrong with that?

Review of Starship Eternal, by M.R. Forbes

February 5, 2020 By S.D. Reeves Leave a Comment

The expanse of space is vast, cold and lifeless. Deep in a sense – or at least I am going to say that, to use in the next line: Starship Eternal is batting 0.500. Dare to guess which way? Don’t be an optimist.

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Review Request: Sangre: the Wrong Side of Tomorrow (4 stars)

January 22, 2020 By S.D. Reeves Leave a Comment

A vampire book with bite…I need to work on these titles

A newspaper article is the first thing we read: a bit of a dry prologue, setting up what appears to be the common tropes. Beheadings? Check. A gritty atmosphere? Check. That palpable sense of decay and the dark stirrings of a city’s underbelly? Check, and check! Yep, we are in a noir/vampire novel folks. But that’s where the similarity between this and those other glorified fanfiction dredges you may have been subjected too, end. Sangre, the Wrong Side of Tomorrow is good. Quite good.

The Melody of Three now available, and other updates

December 25, 2019 By S.D. Reeves Leave a Comment

Hey folks,

It’s been awhile since I have done an update, but things have been very busy. The biggest news is that The Melody of Three is now available both in kindle, and paperback (https://www.amazon.com/Melody-Three-Evercharm-Trilogy-Book/dp/1946849626).

In January I will be doing an interview with DJ over at MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape. Also, work on the sequel continues unabated! There will be some lovely prizes and other things planned after for a giveaway in February, so stay tuned for that.

For now, I am off to the States to visit my parents. I should be back around January 4th. Till then, I hope you all have a happy holidays!

Promotions: From the Writer’s Drawer

November 19, 2019 By S.D. Reeves 2 Comments

Originally published on Sulis International’s Blog. I felt that this needed to be touched upon in a little longer of a post, so I will be expanding this into several posts.

This is a first part of a two, or three point posting about…Marketing. Yes, that which every author likes to put out of sight, and out of mind. Today, though, we will be specifically talking about promotions. [Read more…] about Promotions: From the Writer’s Drawer

Review Requests

November 10, 2019 By S.D. Reeves Leave a Comment

From time to time I get contacted to review books from authors and publishers, and up to this date I really have had no formal review policy – or really any information on this site saying I am open to inquiries.

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