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#Bookreview: Homunculus and the Cat by Nathan Croft—#fantasy kitchen sink

September 24, 2015

One criticism often leveled against fantasy world builders (aka writers) is that they take this too far. If someone, somewhere thought up a god, mythological creature, or patently unscientific explanation, into the fantasy kitchen sink it goes.

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#RBRT #bookreview for #anthology THE EXPERIMENTAL NOTEBOOK OF C.S. BOYACK

September 21, 2015

I have a necklace. Each pearl is perfectly matched, building carefully in size from the small ones at each end …

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#Bookreview: The Accidental Superheroine by JR Rain and Kris Carey— 5-star #SciFi #Humor

September 18, 2015

WARNING: the following contains references to mathematics and may involve actual instances of calculus. “Ohhhhh…Look at that, Schuster… English majors and …

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#Bookreview and Page 69 challenge: GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE

September 17, 2015

Today I’ve got both a Page 69 Challenge excerpt and a book review for Samantha Bryant’s paranormal fantasy, Going Through …

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#Bookreview THE ATTIC ROOM by Linda Huber~ 5-star psychological thriller

September 10, 2015

  “We know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than about the nature and meaning of …

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#RBRT #Bookreview #Steampunk THE VIPER AND THE URCHIN

September 3, 2015

great characters are just three sliders away The usually entertaining and always brief team at Writing Excuses were playing around …

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Guest blogger: ex-pat Ellen Hawley on UK Beach Holiday. Plus #Bookreview THE DIVORCE DIET

August 30, 2015

At the height of the British summer, my partner and I went to Swanage, a beachy resort town on England’s south coast.

That sounds simple, but we’re Americans living in Britain, so nothing stays simple for long.

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Dark #Fantasy or Horror? The Felix Chronicles: #BookReview, interview & excerpt

August 28, 2015

What if Harry Potter didn’t know about magic until he went to college? And what if (along with almost everything else to do with dorm life as a freshman) Hogwarts turned out to be more horror story than dark fantasy, and Harry’s fellow students had a tendency to end up as ketchup?

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#UrbanFantasy tropes and Page 69 challenge: THE TIES THAT BLEED

August 25, 2015

Today I’m excited to present page 69 excerpts from my personal favorite paranormal genre, Urban Fantasy So what is this urban …

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Page 69 challenge: #Irish #historical #fantasy excerpts from Sheila Lamb’s BRIGID series

August 18, 2015

Today I’m joining Sheila Lamb’s virtual book tour with a Spotlight and page 69 excerpt from her Brigid Irish Fantasy series Fiery …

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I've split with my publisher, so books 1-4 are getting a makeover in time for the release of OPEN FARE, the final NULL CITY book. If you'd like to read free copies before then, I invite you to join our Beta Reader team. Please send email (barbtaub (at) gmail (dot) com and be sure to let me know which format you prefer. I'll send you my undying thanks plus advanced readers copies of all books, including the upcoming OPEN FARE.

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Superpowers suck? Try Null City. After one day there, imps become baristas, and hellhounds become poodles. But someone should have told them the angels were all on the other side.

Each morning, hope flares in the tiny flash of a second before I touch that first thing. And destroy it.

Warden Carey Parker's to-do list is already long enough: find her brother and sister, rescue her roommate, save Null City, and castrate her ex-boyfriend. Preferably with a dull-edged garden tool. A rusty one.

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