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December Reader Update

Working over the Holidays I’m writing this at the kitchen table of a house we’ve rented for the Thanksgiving holiday, a nice place in Florida large enough to hold 16 people within walking distance of the ocean. It sounded like a good idea at the time....

A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine’s book has been mentioned by a few authors I follow and when the time came to put down the KU buffet plate and read something less pulpy, I decided to see if this book lived up to its hype. This book is a new take on an old-school Sci-fi and...

November Reader Update

Finding a good book I’ve always been a reader, which is a good background to have if you want to become a writer. When I was younger I would grab whatever seemed interesting and self-selected into fantasy and science-fiction stories and while I read widely now,...

October Promo

Hello, Traveler! I’m part of an October promotion with 100 other Fantasy and Sci-Fi authors and I’m giving away a Badlands story for free until the end of the month. Be sure to grab it before it ends! Description Capitan Reginald Beaumont of the long-range...

We, The Drowned

We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen I’m trying to read outside my comfort zone and came across this book in the library. The dust jacket claimed: Already hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal,...

Fifth Season

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin I’ve heard a lot about this book, or at least have seen the headlines and hoopla about the series, so I decided it was time to see what the Hugo award winner was all about. The story follows a far future post-apocalyptic Earth where...