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We’ll Be Right Back After This Word… 20 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
The Metaphysical Circus is going on hiatus for a couple of weeks… give or take… while I finish getting my book of short stories prepped for publication in October. Here is the latest mock-up for the c...
Review of the Spiritwalker Trilogy, by Kate Elliot 20 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
My Fun Summer Read I’ve read the first two books in the Spiritwalker Trilogy, Cold Magic and Cold Fire, and plan to soon gobble down the final installment that came out this summer, Cold Steel. I’m wr...
Review of Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow 17 Jul 2013 | 09:34 am
If You’re Not Doing Anything Wrong, You Don’t Need to Worry… Right? Marcus Yallow is a 17-year old geek genius living in a near-future San Francisco where kids are monitored constantly by cyber-securi...
Review of Brown Girl in the Ring, by Nalo Hopkinson 3 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
Serving the Spirits In this near future, post-apocalyptic Toronto, the wealthy live in the suburbs. In the inner city, government and social structures have disintegrated after a series of riots. “The...
I’m Back…with Apologies and News! 3 Jul 2013 | 09:55 am
Dear Readers, please forgive my temporary absence! You know how they say when life gives you lemons make lemonade? Well, sometimes when life gives you an ambitious husband who decides to build an eigh...
6 Steps to Get Your Book Ready to Publish 21 May 2013 | 11:14 pm
How Do You Know When It’s Go Time? Before you submit your manuscript to agents and publishers, you would be wise to make sure it is well crafted, polished and clean. This will greatly up your chances ...
Short Stories by Kelly Link, a review 7 May 2013 | 10:18 am
Nobody writes cooler stories than Kelly Link. Link’s stories draw from fairy tales, myth, pop culture, experimental, horror, gothic, and detective fiction, the tabloids, dreams, nightmares, and half a...
Waking the Moon, by Elizabeth Hand 23 Apr 2013 | 03:56 am
The Moon with a Knife-Sharp Edge Three unwitting college students stand between the reawakening of a dark goddess and the Benandanti, a secret society of magicians who have been running the world for ...
Bird House 16 Apr 2013 | 10:52 am
Fiction by Melanie Lamaga It was a typical day for Michael—to the office by 7:00 a.m., coffee-fueled meetings, lunch with Dave, writing reports, out by six. Driving home from work in his convertible w...
Sojourn with the Watercolor People 30 Mar 2013 | 06:47 pm
Fiction by Melanie Lamaga The Watercolor people are angry with me. You may not think that sounds ominous, but believe me, they have a list of people they’d like to kill. They’ll go through with it, to...
