“White Tiger” by Kelly Chan

I was very excited by the premise of this book, and there a number of things that I really enjoyed about it. I have an entirely amateur interest in Chinese culture (and Asian/Pacific culture in general) and enjoy books and movies featuring it. On that level, this book was very satisfying: there are detailed descriptions […]

“Yes Ma’am: Erotic Tales of Male Submission”

A fun collection of stories from a perspective that gets all too little attention: that of the submissive male. Despite this being (apparently) a pretty common preference, you rarely encounter it in fiction and even more rarely in a positive light. Due to their brevity, these stories by necessity only skim the psychological surface, but […]

“TMLI” is a Fantasy Finalist in the INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards!

Very excited to announce that “The Midnight Land: Part One” has been chosen as a finalist in the Fantasy category for the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year awards! In a competition with over 1500 other entrants, it’s pretty great to have made it this far. Feeling the #indielove! Stay tuned for the winner announcements […]

“The Surgeon’s Mate” by Alan M. Clark

“The Surgeon’s Mate” is a genre-bending book in the vein of…well, I’m not sure, actually, but the closest example I can come up are Peter Hoeg’s books like “Borderliners” or “The History of Danish Dreams.” Like them, “The Surgeon’s Mate” combines history, fiction, autobiography, and a bizarre dash of surrealism and magic. Taken together, the […]

Latest interview!

Interview with Renee Scattergood http://reneesauthorspotlight.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/the-midnight-land-part-one-flight-by-ep.html

Hook’s Pan by Marie Hall

“Hook’s Pan” is a fun paranormal romance with an intriguing premise: James Hook is the good guy (well, actually, he’s a Bad Boy, of course, but in the sexy way, not the evil way), and Peter Pan is an annoying brat who accidentally murdered Hook’s beloved, the mermaid Talia. Only it turns out she’s been […]

“Saving Fish from Drowning” by Amy Tan

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up this book, since it looked like a departure from some of Tan’s previous works. And it is, in a way, but I enjoyed it tremendously. I noticed that other people have left negative reviews of it; I feel like we must have been reading two […]

The Valkyrie by Deborah Davitt

Wow! I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a new fantasy series since reading “Kushiel’s Dart”! “The Valkyrie” is a rich, dense, and complex story about an alternate world in which magic exists and Rome never fell. There is a large cast of characters from all parts of the empire–Rome, Judea, Britannia, the Americas […]

New Interview!

Fast Friday Interview with Martin Wilsey

Review: Melody Jackson v. the Woman in White

This is a genre I enjoyed a lot as a tween but haven’t indulged in for years (well, decades), so it was fun to return to it. Melody is a delightful character–intelligent and precocious, but also prone to mood swings and irrational fears–and her parents are also charmingly humorous, as are the interactions between the […]