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OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Richard was born in North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. He spent most of his early life on Royal Air Force bases in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and attended St Peter's School in York as a boarder. He studied law at the University of Manchester, and spent most of the following ten years as a lawyer specialising in multi-million pound commercial disputes.
Between 2015 and 2018, Richard self-published THE ART OF WAR trilogy, a sequence of epic military space operas, as well as a number of prequels, novellas a ..read more
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2d ago
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: By day, R.K. Ashwick herds cats in the animation industry. By night, she writes, bakes, and herds her literal cat around her living room. She lives with her husband (and said cat) in California.
If you like fancy coats and silly ramblings, you can find R.K. on Tiktok and Instagram.
A Rival Most Vial links: Amazon, Goodreads
When not writing, R.K. Ashwick loves to bake and draw. She lives in California with her husband and her cat, Leia.
(Yes, like Princess Leia.)
If you like fancy coats and silly ramblings, you can find R.K. on Tiktok and ..read more
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1w ago
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Buy The Last Phi Hunter
OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Sal(inee) Goldenberg is a multimedia artist and writer living in Washington D.C. She paints, draws comics, and plays guitar in a punk rock band. Before freelancing, the bi-chaotic elder-millennial worked at Bethesda Softworks, producing narrative trailers on IPs like Skyrim, Fallout and Dishonored. Now she makes wholesome social videos for Minecraft. She loves cooking, (especially Thai family recipes,) playing video games, and lowlevel hustlin’.
FORMAT/INFO: The Last Phi Hunter will be published April 9th, 2024 by A ..read more
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2w ago
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Buy That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Kimberly Lemming is on an eternal quest to avoid her calling as a main character. She can be found giving the slip to that new werewolf that just blew into town and refusing to make eye contact with a prince of a far-off land. Dodging aliens looking for Earth booty can really take up a girl's time.
But when she’s not running from fate, she can be found writing diverse fantasy romance. Or just shoveling chocolate in her maw until she passes out on the couch.
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2w ago
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Solihull, UK, Ed Greaves now resides in Auckland, New Zealand.
Besides pouring his imagination out into the pages of his books, he also spends his time developing indie horror games, composing music, building and modifying old vehicles, and drawing.
And wasting too much time on Twitter.
Find E.C. online: Website
Daughter of the Beast links: Amazon, Goodreads
ESMAY
Brimming with Slavic folklore and legends, Daughter of the Beast is a dark, unique, and monstrously maniacal coming-of-age fantasy that deftly straddles the line bet ..read more
Fantasy Book Critic Blog
2w ago
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Solihull, UK, Ed Greaves now resides in Auckland, New Zealand.
Besides pouring his imagination out into the pages of his books, he also spends his time developing indie horror games, composing music, building and modifying old vehicles, and drawing.
And wasting too much time on Twitter.
Find E.C. online: Website
Daughter of the Beast links: Amazon, Goodreads
INTERVIEW
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Hi, I'm Ed (short for Edmund, like the naughty kid in Narnia). I was born in ..read more
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2w ago
Book Review: The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C L Miller
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OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB: Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started. . .Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has died… and the circumstances seem suspicious.
You will uncover a reservation, I implore you to attend. . .
But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days befo ..read more
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3w ago
GUEST POST: Writing the Villainess by Elyse Thompson
I was about half way through writing what I thought would be the second (now sixth) book in my series when inspiration struck. What if the innocent victims from Poisoned Empire were, in fact, party to the coup attempt? That would make them villains, wouldn’t it? Chasing the next shiny thing (something I’m often guilty of as a writer) the female lead for Conspirators’ Kingdom, Taisiya, began taking shape in my head.
The idea of a villain simply being the hero of their own story helped shape how she viewed her world, which meant she woul ..read more
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3w ago
The Truth of the Aleke by Moses Ose Utomi
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Moses Ose Utomi is a Nigerian-American fantasy writer and nomad currently based out of Honolulu, Hawaii. He has an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and short fiction publications in Fireside Fiction, Fantasy Magazine, and more. He is the author of the novella The Lies of the Ajungo and the YA fantasy novel Daughters of Oduma. When he’s not writing, he’s traveling, training martial arts, or doing karaoke—with or without a backing track.
Publisher: Tordotcom (05/03/2024)  ..read more
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3w ago
Interview: Gareth Brown, author of The Book of Doors
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OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB: New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is not sure what she’s doing with her life. She lives quietly, sharing an apartment with her best friend, Izzy. Then a favourite customer gives her an old book. Full of strange writing and mysterious drawings, at the very front there is a handwritten message:
This is the Book of Doors. Hold it in your hand, and any door is every door.
Cassie is about to discover that the Book of Doors is a special book – a magic book. A book that bestows ..read more