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- Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett
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- John Ottinger's reviews, interviews and articles have appeared in Publisher's Weekly The Fix, Sacramento Book Review, Flashing Swords and Stephen Hunt's SFCrowsnest and at Tor.com.
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Joe AbercombieThe Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Bad-A** Faeries (editor)
Yesterday's Dreams
John Joseph Adams
Seeds of Change
Shimmer, The Pirate Issue
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Ann Aguirre
Grimspace
Randy Alcorn
The Treasure Principle
Kevin J. Anderson
Paul of Dune
Taylor Anderson
Destroyermen: Into the Storm
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Jonathan BarnesThe Somnambulist
Lee Barwood
Klasssic Koalas: Ancient Aboriginal Tales in New Retellings
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone
Warren Bennis
On Becoming A Leader
C.F. Bentley
Harmony
J. M. C. Blair
The Excalibur Murders
Edward Bolme
Eberron: Bound by Iron
Eberron: The Orb of Xoriat
Paul Brand
The Gift of Pain
Marie Brennan
Midnight Never Come
Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Mother Tongue
Robert Buettner
Orphanage
Katherine Burton
Hedge Hunters
Kristin Britain
Green Rider
Keith Brooke
Genetopia
Eric Brown
Helix
Tobias Buckell
Crystal Rain
Ragamuffin
Sly Mongoose
Jim Butcher
Small Favor
Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms: Unclean
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Jeff CarlsonPlague Year
Humphrey Carpenter
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography
Gary Chapman
The Five Love Languages
Emmanuel Civiello
A Bit of Madness
Bruce Cordell
Forgotten Realms: Stardeep
Forgotten Realms: Plague of Spells
Elaine Cunningham
Forgotten Realms: The City of Splendors
Julie E. Czerneda
Misspelled
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Jack Dann Wizards (editor)Frank Delaney
Tipperary: A Novel
Gardner Dozois
Wizards (editor)
Hunter's Run with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham
David Anthony Durham
Acacia
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David Louis EdelmanInfoquake MultiReal
Ian Edgington
Sojourn: The Bezerker's Tale
Sojourn: The Sorcerer's Tale
Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kate Elliott
The Crown of Stars Series
Peter Berresford Ellis
The Druids
Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions (editor)
Clayton Emery
Robin Hood and the Beasts of Sherwood
Chris Evans
A Darkness Forged in Fire
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Tracy FalbeUnion of Renegades
Raymond E. Feist
Magician
Honored Enemy with William R. Fortschen
Murder in LaMut with Joel Rosenberg
Charles Coleman Finlay
The Prodigal Troll
Pat Frank
Alas, Babylon
Maragaret Frazer
The Clerk's Tale
Pamela Freeman
Blood Ties
Jake Frievald
Flash Fiction Online, April 2008 (editor)
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David GemmellLegend
Paul Genesse
The Golden Cord
L.B. Graham
Beyond the Summerland
Shadow in the Deep
Terry Goodkind
Confessor
Phantom
David Green
More Than A Hobby
Martin H. Greenberg
Fellowship Fantastic (with Kerrie Hughes)
Better off Undead (with Daniel M. Hoyt)
Robert Greenberger
The Essential Batman Encyclopedia
Ed Greenwood
Forgotten Realms: Swords of Dragonfire
Forgotten Realms: The City of Splendors
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Jonny HartGrowingold with B.C.
Lian Hearn
Heaven's Net is Wide
Robert Heinlein
Glory Road
Brian Herbert
Paul of Dune
Michael R. Hicks
In Her Name
Sahron Hinck
The Restorer
Jim C. Hines
Goblin Quest
Goblin Hero
Goblin War
W. H. Horner
Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy (editor)
Sails and Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy (editor)
Stephen Hunt
The Court of the Air
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A. J. JacobsThe Know-It-All
P.D. James
The Children of Men
Jaleigh Johnson
Forgotten Realms: The Howling Delve
Rosemary Jones
Forgotten Realms: Crypt of the Moaning Diamond
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
Theodore Judson
The Martian General's Daughter
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Paul S. KempForgotten Realms: Shadowrealm
Forgotten Realms: Shadowstorm
Russell Kirkpatrick
Across the Face of the World
E. E. Knight
Dragon Champion
Dragon Outcast
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Mercedes LackeyFoundation
The Phoenix Unchained with James Mallory
Greg Land (artist)
Sojourn: The Bezerker's Tale
Sojourn: The Sorcerer's Tale
Sue Lange
We, Robots
Aaron Lanskey
Outwitting History
Stephen Lawhead
Scarlet
Hood
The Pendragon Cycle
Jess Lebow
Forgotten Realms: Obsidian Ridge
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
John Lenahan
Shadowmagic
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Scott MacKayPhytosphere
Tides
Nathalie Mallet
The Princes of the Golden Cage
Andy Mangels
Iron Man: Beneath the Armor
George R. R. Martin
Dying of the Light
Hunter's Run with Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham
Gail Z. Martin
The Summoner
James Maxey
Bitterwood
James Maxwell
Life@Work
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Frank McCourt
Teacher Man
Carole McDonnell
Wind Follower
Dennis L. McKiernan
City of Jade
Patricia A. McKillip
The Bell at Sealy Head
Mike McPhail
Breach the Hull (editor)
R. M. Meluch
The Sagittarius Command
Mental_Floss
Condensed Knowledge
Robyn Meredith
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us
Karen Miller
The Innocent Mage
The Awakened Mage
Empress
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Magic of Recluce
Moira J. Moore
Heroes Adrift
James Muirden
A Rhyming History of Britain
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John Julius NorwichShakespeare's Kings
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John O'NeillBlack Gate: Issue #11
Black Gate Issue #12
Jeffrey Overstreet
Auralia's Colors
Cyndere's Midnight
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Christopher PaoliniEragon
K. J. Parker
The Company
Robert M. Poole
Explorer's House: National Geographic and the World It Made
Terry Pratchett
Making Money
Thud!
The Truth
Christopher Priest
The Prestige
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Dave RamseyThe Junior Books
Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms: The Gossamer Plain
Mike Resnick
Stalking the Unicorn
Francine Rivers
Redeeming Love
Jenna Rhodes
The Four Forges
Jim Rossignol
This Gaming Life
Pat Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
Brian Ruckley
Bloodheir
Winterbirth
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R. A. SalvatoreForgotten Realms: The Orc King
Forgotten Realms: Road of the Patriarch
Dorothy Sayers
Are Women Human?
John Scalzi
Agent to the Stars
Old Man's War
Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
Mark Sehestedt
Eberron: The Tales of the Last War (editor)
Diane Setterfield
The Thirteenth Tale
James Seymour
Black History Through Blue Eyes: The Debt the World Owes to Africa
William Shakespeare
Henry V (Classical Comics Edition)
Robert Silverberg
Son of Man
Lisa Smedman
Forgotten Realms: Ascendancy of the Last
Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Maria V. Snyder
Poison Study
Michael Stusser
The Dead Guy Interviews
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Rob ThurmanMadhouse
Peter Tremayne
Badger's Moon
Master of Souls
Smoke in the Wind
Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad
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John VarleyRolling Thunder
Robert Venditti
The Surrogates, Vol. 1
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Chris WalleyThe Shadow and Night
Jason M. Waltz
Return of the Sword (editor)
Jason M. Ward
Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe
Brent Weeks
The Way of Shadows
Dave Weldon
Moon Gate with William Proctor
Martha Wells
The Death of the Necromancer
Michelle West
The Hidden City
Elie Wiesel
Night
Tad Williams
Shadowmarch
Shadowplay
Simon Winchester
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Monks and Mystics
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John ZakourThe Blue-Haired Bombshell
The Flaxen Femme Fatale
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You may not know me or my work, but I am the national bestselling, award winning novelist of six critically acclaimed novels who has been twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
On Jan 9th, 2010 my debut novel, SUGAR will celebrate its 10th anniversary and in order to commemorate this milestone I am campaigning to sell 10,000 copies between now and that date.
“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And yes, KINDLE purchases count.
If you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering ad Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.
Peace & Light,
Bernice L. McFadden
www.bernicemcfadden.com
www.firstborngirl.blogspot.com
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Best regards
Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available, and I was hoping you might be willing to mention it on your blog (or consider it for review). If you'd like to review the book, I'd be glad to send you a copy (in e-book format). Let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com