Fabulous February Fantasy Giveaway; Paperbacks of The Breathing Sea

February! Get ink and cry. So said Pasternak, but February doesn’t have to be a miserable month. There’s another great giveaway going, the Fabulous February Fantasy Giveaway, with over 150 free books, stories, and previews, including of The Breathing Sea. You can find it here. Just a reminder of what my fabulous cover for TBSI […]

“The Golden Lynx” by C.P. Lesley

The Golden Lynx C.P. Lesley Historical romance isn’t my favorite genre, but when a friend and sister Russianist recommended “The Golden Lynx” as being a romance that was also a historically accurate depiction of 16th-century Russia, I knew I had to check it out. And indeed, the descriptions of life amongst the Tatars and boyars […]

Free Books, and the Paperback of The Breathing Sea I!

Hi All! First a reminder that today is the LAST day to get a bunch of free fantasy books, stories, and previews (including mine) in the Fantasy Books for Fantasy Lovers Giveaway (link here): And, after weeks of agonizing labor, I astonished myself by producing the (beautiful, if I do say so myself) paperback version […]

Happy New Year and January Giveaway!

Yes, it’s the first day of 2018, which means…who knows? It’s certainly cold here in NC, that’s for sure. Plenty of incentive for me to curl up and work on proofing the galley of my paperback for The Breathing Sea, which, I promise you, will be out very, very soon! In the meantime, I’m participating […]

“The Danger” by Dick Francis

The Danger Dick Francis “The Danger” was the first Dick Francis book I read, so it seems fitting to finish off this year’s Goodreads reading challenge by reviewing it. In “The Danger,” Francis breaks his usual MO by making the jockey, not the hero, but the woman whom the hero has to save. The hero […]

“Kushiel’s Dart” by Jacqueline Carey

Kushiel’s Dart Jacqueline Carey During my MA program at an august and prestigious institution, there were two authors I read that made a profound impact on me. Only one of them was assigned for course work. The other I stumbled upon by accident in the local branch of the NYC public library, where I would […]

“Desires of the Deep” by CB Archer

Desires of the Deep CB Archer After the impossibly crazy “Annals of Gentalia,” where could the intrepid CB Archer go next, some of us wondered. To school, obviously. “Desires of the Deep” leaves behind the gaming world of Gentalia, turning instead to an all-species college that has recently started admitting humans. Cliff Waters, human, has […]

Fantasy Books for Fantasy Lovers Giveaway

Want some free fantasy? Come swing by the Fantasy Books for Fantasy Lovers Group Giveaway on Instafreebie! You can access the entire giveaway of 70 books and previews here Or go straight to the free preview of The Breathing Sea here Happy reading!

“Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow” by Peter Hoeg

Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow Peter Hoeg “Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow” was the book that introduced me both to Nordic noir and contemporary literary fiction, and was a major push towards my life-long fascination with the Nordic countries (in case you’re wondering, Scandinavia is the Nordic countries that speak Germanic languages, while “the Nordic […]

“Winds of Fate” by Mercedes Lackey

Winds of Fate Mercedes Lackey Back in the heady days of 2016, when some of us thought there might be a chance of electing a woman as president of the US (and yes, it matters that it is the president of the US and not some other country; lovely as it is that countries like […]