Author Interview – Paul Magnan

Today I am delighted to present an interview with a writer acquaintance, Paul Magnan. His debut novel,  Kyu, The Unknown: The Coming of Dis (Book 1) is the first in an urban fantasy series set in an alternate world.   The Territories have been unified for a thousand years, brought together under the sword of Harra …

Imaginary Worlds

These pictures feel like a fairytale world. I need to write a fantasy set in this place. Gotta come up with a name for it. Amazing how it's never the same two days in a row. When I look at these pictures I keep wanting to label them "Farksolia." But I need to think up …

Snippets

Having no other content to put up here lately, I thought I'd post a snippet of a story I'm working on and see what you 3 think of it. This is actually quite terrifying, putting it out there like this. I don't even have a title for it yet. Oh what the hell, here it …

More Bad Book Covers

I had thought the previous crop of tramp-stamped dommes in fetish gear wielding swords on book covers  was bad enough. But these two recently caught my eye, and I'm hoping this isn't the next trend. Come on. Who would ever walk around dressed like that, packing that much heat? If you're going to war, I …

Bewitched! The Reboot

Ok, people, Variety reports Bewitched is getting a reboot! While I'm all kinds of excited about this, my enthusiasm for this dropped several notches when I read who the producers are. Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher, the married couple behind the 2005 film version, are onboard to exec produce through their Red Wagon shingle. Marc …

These Are the Good Old Days

FAIR WARNING - MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD (If you haven't read the A Song of Ice andFire books, or are just starting, you may want to skip this post) Just some observations. As I've been reading through George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series (now on book 3, A Storm of Swords) …

Picture, if you will…

...This: Yeee... err....uh.... Yeah. What the hell? you say. As did we all. BUT... this terrifying, inexplicable image just netted me a free book! And that's always a good thing. Here's how: Twitter convert that I am (I'm still eating crow over that), I discovered a Web site dedicated to fantasy literature, conveniently called Fantasy …

SF Editors in Conversation at Clarkesworld Magazine

So we bounce from Romance to SF. This month's Clarkesworld Magazine carries an interview with ten of the top spec fic editors: Patrick Nielsen Hayden from Tor Books and Tor.com, Shawna McCarthy from Realms of Fantasy, John O'Neill from Black Gate magazine, Cat Rambo from Fantasy Magazine, Mike Resnick from Jim Baen's Universe, Stanley Schmidt …