I had the pleasure of meeting fantasy author while attending World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio. His new novel Greatshadow, Book One of the Dragon Apocalypse releases today.
: What made you love fantasy?
: Comic books. I devoured comics as a kid. Marvel published Conan the Barbarian, and DC had books like Warlord and Claw the Conqueror. When I read actual books in my youth, they were heavily weighted toward science fiction; I was only dimly aware of the fantasy genre. (This may have had something to do with small town libraries feeling it was okay to stock books about spaceships, but not okay to stock books about wizards and spell casting.) I didn't read Lord of the Rings until I was in college.
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On Oct 15 I told you about The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics after the Fall as my Book of the Day.
Now here's a video of in conversation with the CBC's . It's a bit long but well worth the time. There's also a Part 2 and Part 3 if you're interested.
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I'm a sucker for Norse Mythology and Urban Fantasy. When I saw that ' series starring blacksmith Sarah Beauhall fused the two together I became very interested indeed.
Black Blade Blues and its sequel, Honeyed Words both feature a fabulous cast of characters and a unique take on my favourite myth cycle, and I can't recommend the series highly enough. I was fortunate to meet J.A. Pitts at 2010's World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio and he was gracious enough to agree to answer some questions about his writing. Honeyed Words will be releasing July 5th, 2011.
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' outstanding debut, the Aztec myth tinged weird western A Book of Tongues has garnered her a Bram Stoker Award nomination for Superior Achievement in a first novel. A Rope of Thorns, Book 2 in Files' Hexslinger series will be on shelves soon. Gemma was kind enough to answer some questions in an email interview.
Categories: Interview, SciFi & Fantasy, New Releases, Horror
Book of the Day, The Pale King. left us such a mystery when he died, at his own hand, while at work on The Pale King. is considered by some to be the best American writer of a generation. When the unfinished fragments that make up The Pale King were published posthumously it was reviewed everywhere, including, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, The Globe and Mail, and our newsletter the May June edition of The Bookseller has a story about David Foster Wallace, click here for a sneak peak.
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