Goodness! Is Maslenitsa week already almost over? I guess that means that spring is almost here! Of course, in parts of the world early “spring” looks, or at least looked, a lot like this: While down here where I’m currently living, I’m pleased to say that the daffodils burst into bloom yesterday, and this time […]
Read more "#Free #Books and More #FreeBooks!"Keytar Heroine: Trip Hazard’s Tale CB Archer For those of us who have been deep in the Gentaliaverse for a while now, the lads of Caution Step are one of the more intriguing and mysterious side characters. They keep coming (up), but we don’t really get to know them as anything other than rock gods […]
Read more "“Keytar Heroine” by CB Archer"For the Love of Katie Erica Lucke Dean Everything *should* be going swimmingly for Katie James, soon to become Katie Maxwell, but somehow she still manages to get into situations a saner woman would hopefully avoid. Luckily she has people who love her… “For the Love of Katie” is a charming, lighthearted, and often hilarious […]
Read more "“For the Love of Katie” by Erica Lucke Dean"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 […]
Read more "Fabulous February Fantasy Giveaway; Paperbacks of The Breathing Sea"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 […]
Read more "“The Golden Lynx” by C.P. Lesley"A Maverick Traveller Mary Jane Walker “A Maverick Traveller” is a straightforward, high-spirited account of the author’s adventures traveling around the world, as she does everything from sail across the Pacific in a Chinese junk to go mountain climbing in the Alps. In between, and perhaps even more fascinatingly, it chronicles her involvement in New […]
Read more "“A Maverick Traveller” by MaryJane Walker"Excited to say that The Breathing Sea I, along with a number of other fine works, has been named a finalist in the Golden Book Award Contest! It is also up for the Readers’ Choice Award, so if you’ve read it and feel like voting for it, you can here. And of course, the Ultimate […]
Read more "The Breathing Sea I is a Finalist!"After Buddhism Stephen Batchelor My rather faint and dilettantish interest in Buddhism has in recent years grown more serious, inspired in part by being seriously ill and unable to practice yoga as I used to, forcing me to turn to meditation instead. So I guess the people who believe that yoga is a gateway practice […]
Read more "“After Buddhism” by Stephen Batchelor"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 […]
Read more "Free Books, and the Paperback of The Breathing Sea I!"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 […]
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E. P. Clark: Author, Book Reviewer, and All-Around Literary Handiwoman 