Darkmage by M.L. Spencer review
I very much enjoyed M.L. Spencer's Darkstorm novel, which was a breath of fresh air from the usual fantasy novels which have a massive threat to the world only for the heroes to resolve it with a...
View ArticleLucifer's Star is out on audiobook!
Hey folks,I'm tremendously pleased to announce the release of LUCIFER'S STAR, my dark space opera, on audiobook. Eric Burns (The Dragon Circle Trilogy) has done an amazing job bringing my story to life...
View ArticleGhosts of Tomorrow by Michael R. Fletcher review
Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash remains the greatest cyberpunk novel ever written with it just barely nudging out Neuromancer in my opinion. I've written a cyberpunk novel, myself, with Agent G:...
View ArticleBeauty in Ruins: #SciFi Review: Lucifer’s Star by C.T. Phipps
Beauty in Ruins: #SciFi Review: Lucifer’s Star by C.T. Phipps: As opening scenes go, sci-fi doesn't get much better than this! Lucifer’s Star kicks off with a big, high-stakes, fast-paced battle t...
View ArticleBook Writing Update 5/22/2017
My current progress on multiple manuscripts:Agent G: Saboteur (Agent G 2#): Complete and submitted to Amber Cove publishing. Jeffrey Kafer will be doing the audiobook. Cover complete.Lucifer's Nebula...
View ArticleThe Dark Defiles review
The Dark Defiles is, unfortunately, one of those cases where the ending is not a bang but, if not a whimper, at least a much smaller explosion than the first two novels. I liked the characters just...
View ArticleHoly Avenger by Kenny Soward review
I was a big fan of Kenny Soward's Galefire, which was a early example of grimdark urban fantasy. It was a story about a drug-addicted mind-twisted man named Lonnie as well as the colorful cast of...
View ArticleEvil is a Matter of Perspective review
Evil is a matter of perspective. This is a quality which is extremely relevant to grimdark as it involves making sure even the most reprehensible characters have a point. Jaime Lannister is the...
View ArticleGrimdark, masculinity, and female authors
I had an interesting conversation recently with a fellow board member on a list where he was discussing how he felt grimdark was a bastion of "male fiction." I blinked because not only did it not...
View ArticleBookwraiths does amazing review of Lucifer's Star
What is easily one of the best reviews of my books ever done. I'm extremely impressed with what Wendell Adams had to say about the story, its structure, and it's character. I hope people who are still...
View ArticleOld Man's War by John Scalzi review
Old Man's War is a book series I decided to pick up after finishing The Collapsing Empire. John Scalzi had intrigued me with his irreverent brand of humor as well as world-building, so I wanted to...
View ArticleThe Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War 2#) by John Scalzi review
THE GHOST BRIGADES is the sequel to John Scalzi's OLD MAN'S WAR and switches from the geriatric seventy-five-year-old recruits to the newborn Special Forces clones who serve ten years from birth in...
View ArticlePlease Don't tell my Parents I have a Nemesis by Richard Roberts review
The Please Don't Tell My Parents series is a great series about a middle-school (now high school freshman) collection of supervillains who are too nice to be bad guys but too mischievous to be...
View ArticleKings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames review
"We're getting the (mercenary) band back together." KINGS OF THE WYLD is a book which I have to give extremely high marks because it's a story I haven't read before. This is kind of a weird thing to...
View ArticleThe Grey Bastards by Jonathan French
"Live in the saddle, die on the hog." THE GREY BASTARDS have been on my list of things to review for quite some time but I've been distracted a lot from my reading due to a tidal wave of other good...
View ArticleThe Last Colony (Old Man's War 3#) by John Scalzi review
American pioneer heritage is something which has kind of a sordid history once you peel back the legend and myth-making which was deliberately added to it. Disease, exile of religious dissidents,...
View ArticleBest Reviews for Lucifer's Star
Well, obviously, I'm going to tell you to read LUCIFER'S STAR. I think it's probably my best work alongside CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON. However, if you don't think I can be trusted to be objective about my own...
View ArticleDead Rising 4 review
I love the Dead Rising series. I didn't play the third game but that's more due to bad timing more than anything else. However, a opening appeared in my schedule which I've decided to devote to...
View ArticleHard Luck Hank: Screw the Galaxy by Steven Campbell review
HARD LUCK HANK is notably the first book I ever saw advertised alongside one of my books and every single volume of the series has been advertised alongside my Supervillainy Saga books, almost in...
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