Short novels, when done very well, are both honey-sweet and sharp as knives edged in fire. They mean something. They forge new connections in their readers, who are never quite the same people they were before reading that particular story. R. B. Lemberg’s new Birdverse book, THE UNBALANCING, accomplishes a startling amount of heavy work.…
Read More Review: THE UNBALANCING by R.B. LembergAfter getting the rights back recently, I’m self-publishing my 103,000-word fantasy quest novel THE PURIST through Draft2Digital. When his wife is outcast from humanity, the last bard of a dying race thwarts a secret war and ancient gods to rejoin her. I made some minor revisions from the version that came out in summer 2018…
Read More Republishing THE PURIST(The author of this book provided a free uncorrected galley copy for an unbiased review.) Plagues permitting, the shiny gorgeous Tor Books* trade paperback of K.A. Doore’s THE UNCONQUERED CITY will be out this summer. Having read library and friends’ copies of the first two books, I plan on buying hard copies of all three.…
Read More Review: The Unconquered City, K.A. Doore‘I should have died the day I learned my father’s name. I would have, but for the second of three gifts I inherited from him, and one I took from my mother. I think—I did die. I just didn’t stay dead. After 25 years, several titles, and several false starts, I’m rewriting and fine-tuning the…
Read More Light On Water, rebooted