UPDATES from Laboratory Brooklyn

by wlancehunt in Books, Marketing, Writing Now

Of Butchery and Meta Data

He found plenty of references to surprises, shocks, twists, and endings that readers hadn’t seen coming. That suggests a very different kind of book.

Jonathan is Back, Rock on

by wlancehunt in Books, Chicago, Soundtrack

Hitting the Summer Doldrums

A Perfect Blindness and Tales of Another World

by wlancehunt in Books, Chicago, fantasy

Libraries, Levels, and the Readercon

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy, Writing Now

808,483, but Who’s Counting?

The Musicality of Water

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy

Generally, I avoid books featuring fae, finding them too often derivative or pollyannish.  Mississippi Missing, an urban fantasy laced with fae, came as rather a surprise. It neither demanded I know everything about the entire fairy world. Nor assuming I share a fan’s devotion to the intricacies of Welsh, Scottish, and whatever-all-esle mythologies. Sure, a […]

Could You Become a Monster to Kill One?

by wlancehunt in Books, fantasy

The layers are thick and deep in this story. Expect things to change. Often. Unexpectedly. Yet precisely the way they must. Once you know enough.

Another book read

by wlancehunt in Marketing, Self Publishing

Write and Grow Rich: Secrets of Successful Authors and Publishers by Alinka Rutkowska My rating: 4 of 5 stars Solid advice from a variety of authors, including fiction, which is not exceptionally common. Slightly sales pitchy at times, but that is part of the performance of the book: this book and what people do in […]

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