Stupid Stuff Writers Do to Literary Agents

Last updated 10/21/20 Because I keep finding more and more of these on Twitter, I am curating a list of “Stupid Stuff Writers Do to Literary Agents” directly from the keyboards of the agents themselves. This will be an ongoing addendum to my article on “Abuse and Stalking of Literary Agents.” For advice on how […]

Review: The Girl Who Owned a City

This will probably be my last pandemic themed book review, and it’s a good one. The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson is the granddaddy of dystopian YA literature, originally published in 1975. It’s about a neighborhood of children, led by Lisa who struggle to survive after all teens and adults on Earth […]

Interview: Author Emma Khoury

With her debut novel, The Sword and Shield, dropping on March 26, I bring to you an interview with Emma Khoury.  Emma’s website is www.emmakhoury.com The Sword and Shield drops March 26 and is available on Amazon (click here).  Tell us about “The Sword and Shield” and why we should read it.The Sword and Shield is […]

Review: The Immortals

With the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) panic sweeping the globe, I thought it was worth revisiting The Immortals by Tracy Hickman. Hickman writes almost exclusively fantasy, so this dystopian tragedy tends to stick out in his bibliography.  I first heard about it on his Dragonhearth podcast back around 2007 when he and his wife Laura released a […]

Review: Son of the Black Sword

It is when you become the master that you can break the rules… Nope, this isn’t a quote from the book, but it describes both the main character and the author.  I know I’m five years late to reading this book, but I finally got around to reading and reviewing it. Larry Correia is very […]

Atlanta Nights: 15th Anniversary and the Lessons it Taught Us

This year, the “novel” Atlanta Nights by a group of sci-fi authors under the pseudonym Travis Tea turns 15 and the lessons it teaches us are still as true as ever. Let’s go down memory lane and see what this “horrible” book is all about.  In the early 2000s, bookseller PublishAmerica was already under fire […]

Review: Magicide

I was looking to take a break from reading sci-fi and fantasy, so I took the opportunity to read and review CV Hamilton‘s critic’s copy of her Las Vegas murder mystery entitled “Magicide.”  Vegas detectives Cheri Raymer and Tony Pizzarelli put together the clues to solve the murder of Maxwell Beacham-Jones after he is horrifically […]