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Willrich's The Silk Map cover art 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm

I finished reading The Scroll of Years last week, a good sword and sorcery novel by Chris Willrich.  The book will be released by Pyr on September 24th and is the first full length book in the Gaunt A...

Black Bottle review 21 Aug 2013 | 06:36 am

Black Bottle is the follow-up to my favorite novel of 2010, The Last Page. It was the debut novel of Anthony Huso, a video game designer, and the series was planned as a duology from the start.  Black...

Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye cover reveal 16 Aug 2013 | 03:41 am

Orbit unveiled today the cover for the third Lightbringer novel by Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye. The design is the work of Lauren Panepinto, the illustration from Silas Manhood and the photography by S...

David Gemmell Awards shortlist 14 Aug 2013 | 03:23 am

Back in June, I posted the longlist for the David Gemmell Legend Awards for Fantasy and it's now time to present the shortlist. Hopefully, my votes in the longlist for Mark Lawrence's King of Thorns f...

Sprunk's Blood and Iron cover 14 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am

Jon Sprunk, author of the Shadow Saga series starring the assassin Caim will present a new series next year (March 11th), The Book of the Black Earth.  The first novel of this Epic Fantasy series is t...

New poll - Page rule 13 Aug 2013 | 06:35 am

Over the years, I have read about several readers who gave books a specific number of pages before considering giving up on them.  Some set it as a rule and some are less strict about it.  If we look ...

Mark Lawrence's announces Prince of Fools 13 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am

With the conclusion of the Broken Empire released last week, Mark Lawrence announced his next project (in fact he did it on August 1st...).  In this blog post he explains why he chose to put Jorg asid...

Mage's Blood review 7 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm

Mage's Blood is the first book in a new series called The Moontide Quartet by David Hair, a New Zealander author who wrote several YA Fantasy novel (for 2 series) and won an award for one in New Zeala...

New maps - Smith, Ryan and Wexler 5 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm

I have three new maps to share with you guys from novels released recently.  They have also been added to the index.  Enjoy! *** Here's the lands of Ro, Karesia and Ranen from the world of A.J. Smit...

August releases 2 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm

August is a huge month in term of releases!  Here you go! From the list of coming up titles for 2013 I posted in January, The Dark Defiles by Richard Morgan is now scheduled for a 2014 release. *** ...

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