Have you ever had a crush on someone that fell apart when chance came, and you were able to get to know them better? The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern was a bit like that, and it is heartbreaking.
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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?
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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.
[Read more…] about Review of Starship Eternal, by M.R. ForbesA 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.
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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
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.
