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Monday, May 30, 2022
TLSOMGC Blog Tour: The Last Stand Of Mary Good Crow by Rachel Aaron (reviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
Official
Rachel Aaron Website
Pre-order “The Last Stand Of Mary Good Crow” HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Forever Fantasy Online"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "FFO: Last Bastion"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "FFO: The Once King"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Nice Dragons Finish Last"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "One Good Dragon Deserves Another"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "A Dragon Of A Different Color"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Last Dragon Standing"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Minimum Wage Magic"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Part-Time Gods"
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of “Night Shift Dragons” Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "The Spirit Thief"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of “The Spirit Rebellion”
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of “The Spirit Eater” & “Spirit’s Oath”
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of “The Spirit War”
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Spirit's End"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Fortune's Pawn"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Honor's Knight"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Heaven's Queen"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's joint interview with Rachel Aaron & Travis Bach
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Interview with Rachel Aaron
Read Eli Monpress series completion interview with Rachel Aaron
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Interview with Rachel Bach
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Heartstrikers interview with Rachel Aaron
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Second Heartstrikers interview with Rachel Aaron
Read "Why A Nice Dragon" by Rachel Aaron (Guest post)
Pre-order “The Last Stand Of Mary Good Crow” HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Forever Fantasy Online"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "FFO: Last Bastion"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "FFO: The Once King"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Nice Dragons Finish Last"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "One Good Dragon Deserves Another"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "A Dragon Of A Different Color"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Last Dragon Standing"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Minimum Wage Magic"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Part-Time Gods"
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of “Night Shift Dragons” Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "The Spirit Thief"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of “The Spirit Rebellion”
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of “The Spirit Eater” & “Spirit’s Oath”
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of “The Spirit War”
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Spirit's End"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Fortune's Pawn"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Honor's Knight"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of "Heaven's Queen"
Read Fantasy Book Critic's joint interview with Rachel Aaron & Travis Bach
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Interview with Rachel Aaron
Read Eli Monpress series completion interview with Rachel Aaron
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Interview with Rachel Bach
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Heartstrikers interview with Rachel Aaron
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Second Heartstrikers interview with Rachel Aaron
Read "Why A Nice Dragon" by Rachel Aaron (Guest post)
Official Author Website
Order All the Horses of Iceland HERE
Order All the Horses of Iceland HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Sarah Tolmie is the author of the poetry collection The Art of Dying
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), the 120-sonnet sequence Trio
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), and the chapbook Sonnet in a Blue
Dress and Other Poems (Baseline Press, 2014). She has published two novels
with Aqueduct Press, The Little Animals (2019) and The Stone Boatmen
(2014), as well as three short fiction collections, Disease (2020), Two
Travelers (2016) and NoFood (2014). She is a medievalist trained at
the University of Toronto and Cambridge and is a Professor of English at the University of
Waterloo. Read Sarah’s entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB: A hypnotic historical
fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author
of The Fourth Island.
Everyone
knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard
their story. Sarah Tolmie’s All the Horses of Iceland weaves their
mystical origin into a saga for the modern age. Filled with the magic and
darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, All the
Horses of Iceland tells the tale of a Norse trader, his travels through
Central Asia, and the ghostly magic that followed him home to the land of fire,
stone, and ice. His search for riches will take him from Helmgard, through
Khazaria, to the steppes of Mongolia, where he will barter for horses and
return with much, much more.
All
the Horses of Iceland
is a delve into the secret, imagined history of Iceland's unusual horses,
brought to life by an expert storyteller.
FORMAT/INFO: All the Horses of
Iceland is a novella of 104 pages, without chapter breaks. The story
of Eyvind and the Horse with No Name is set in the 9th
Century, and is told in the third-person by Jór, approximately three
hundred years after its occurrence. Short first-person interjections by the
narrator occur amid the main tale.
1st
March 2022
marked the release of the novella by Tordotcom Publishers in paperback and eBook.
Official
Author Website
Order Siren Queen over HERE
Order Siren Queen over HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFO: Nghi Vo is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful, as well as the acclaimed novellas When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and The Empress of Salt and Fortune, a
Locus and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award and the
Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She
believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to
change your mind.
(Author picture courtesy of James Rollins)
Order The Starless Crown over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of The Starless Crown
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AUTHOR INFO: Craig Schaefer's books have taken readers to the seamy edge of a criminal underworld drenched in shadow (the Daniel Faust series), to a world torn by war, poison and witchcraft (the Revanche Cycle), and across a modern America mired in occult mysteries and a conspiracy of lies (the Harmony Black series).
Despite this, people say he's strangely normal. Suspiciously normal, in fact. His home on the Web is www.craigschaeferbooks.com.
Publisher: Demimonde Books (April 26, 2022) Length: 356 pages Formats: ebook, paperback
Order Kaikeyi
over HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFO: Vaishnavi Patel is
a law student focusing on constitutional law and civil rights. She likes to
write at the intersection of Indian myth, feminism, and anti-colonialism. Her
short stories can be found in The Dark and 87 Bedford's Historical
Fantasy Anthology along with a forthcoming story in Helios
Quarterly. Vaishnavi grew up in and around Chicago, and in her spare time,
enjoys activities that are almost stereotypically Midwestern: knitting, ice
skating, drinking hot chocolate, and making hotdish.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947–2006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius Grant’. A pioneer of her genre, Octavia’s dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women’s rights, global warming and political disparity, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.
Genre: Sci-fi First Published: 1977 Page count: 169
FBC will have the pleasure to participate in the SPFBO for the eighth time. This time we'll have five judges involved in choosing our SPFBO champion. We're happy to welcome one new judge this year :) Here’s a bit of information on all of us:
AUTHOR INFO: Oliver Langmead is an author and poet based in Glasgow. His long-form poem, Dark Star, featured in the Guardian's Best Books of 2015. Oliver is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow, where he is researching terraforming and ecological philosophy, and in late 2018 he undertook a writing residency at the European Space Agency's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, writing about astronauts and people who work with astronauts.
Publisher: Titan Books (May 17, 2022) Page count: 288 pages Cover art:
Official
Author Website
Pre-order The Umbral Storm over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of The Crimson Queen
Read Fantasy Book Critic's interview with Alec Hutson
Pre-order The Umbral Storm over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of The Crimson Queen
Read Fantasy Book Critic's interview with Alec Hutson
Official Author Info: John Gwynne studied and lectured at Brighton University. He's been in a rock 'n' roll band, playing the double bass, travelled the USA and lived in Canada for a time. He is married with four children and lives in Eastbourne running a small family business rejuvenating vintage furniture. He is the author of the epic fantasy series The Faithful and the Fallen including Malice, Valour, Ruin and Wrath.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Book review: An End to Sorrow by Michael R. Fletcher (reviewed by Lukasz Przywoski & Mihir Wanchoo)
ABOUT AUTHOR: Michael R. Fletcher is a science fiction and fantasy author, a grilled cheese aficionado, and a whiskey-swilling reprobate. He spends his days choreographing his forklift musical (titled "Get Forked"), and using caffeine as a substitute for sanity. Any suggestions that he is actually Dyrk Ashton in disguise are all lies.
Official Author Twitter
Order Anna in HARDCOVER or PAPERBACK
25th May 2021 marked the hardcover publication of Anna. Audio and eBook versions are also available. Anna is published by Solaris (Rebellion Press) and distributed through various imprints.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Introducing Fantasy Book Critic’s Newest Reviewers: Daniel H., Shazzie., Matthew H. & V (Caffeinated Covers)
Fantasy Book Critic is pleased to introduce
the four new members of our team: Daniel Haeusser, Shazzie, Matthew
Higgins & V (Caffeinated Covers)!
We
hope you’ll give them a warm welcome :)
Book links: Publisher, Goodreads
AUTHOR INFO: David Towsey is a graduate of the Creative Writing programmes at Bath Spa University and Aberystwyth University. Born in Dorset, he now lives in Cardiff with his girlfriend and their growing board game collection. Together, they write under the pseudonym of D.K. Fields whose Tales of Fenest trilogy is also published by Head of Zeus. David's first novel, Your Brother's Blood, was published by Quercus, and was the first in the Walkin' Trilogy. He is also one half of the indie games company, Pill Bug Interactive, who have released three titles across PC and Nintendo Switch (TM).
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Publisher: Head of Zeus (May 12, 2022) Page count: 336 Cover art: Format: Hardback, paperback, ebook
Official Author Website
Buy The Stardust Thief HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR BIO: Chelsea Abdullah is an American-Kuwaiti writer born and raised in Kuwait, where she grew up listening to stories about mysterious desert creatures and wily (only sometimes likable) heroes.
Consumed by wanderlust, she has put down roots in various states. After earning her MA in English at Duquesne University, she moved to New York, where she currently lives. When not immersed in her own fictional worlds, she spends her free time playing video games, doodling characters, and hoarding books she doesn’t have the shelf space for.
Book links: Amazon, Goodreads
AUTHOR INFO: JONATHAN MABERRY is a NY Times bestselling suspense novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. He is one-third of the very popular and mildly weird Three Guys With Beards podcast. He is a board member of the Horror Writers Association and the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. Jonathan lives in Del Mar, California with his wife, Sara Jo. www.jonathanmaberry.com
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (May 10, 2022) Page count: 560 Cover art:
Friday, May 6, 2022
Sins Of The Mother Release Interview with Rob J. Hayes (interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
Official Author Website
Order Sins Of The Mother over HERE (USA) and HERE (UK)
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of Spirits Of Vengeance
Read FantasyBook Critic’s review of Pawn’s Gambit
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of Never Die
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of Along The Razor's Edge
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Lessons Never Learned
Read FantasyBook Critic’s review of From Cold Ashes Risen
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of Sins Of The Mother
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of City Of Kings
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of Where Loyalties Lie
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Fifth Empire Of Man
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Heresy Within
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Colour Of Vengeance
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Price Of Faith
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of It Takes A Thief To Catch A Sunrise
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of It Takes A Thief To Start A Fire
Read Fantasy Book Critic interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Mini Q&A with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic trilogy completion interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Best Laid Plans Series Interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's SPFBO Aftermath Q&A with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Post COK interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Never Die Release Interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's The War Eternal Trilogy Release Interview
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Pawn’s Gambit Release Interview
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Spirit’s Of Vengeance Release Interview Read A Game of ̶T̶h̶r̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Death by Rob J. Hayes (guest post)
Order Sins Of The Mother over HERE (USA) and HERE (UK)
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of Spirits Of Vengeance
Read FantasyBook Critic’s review of Pawn’s Gambit
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of Never Die
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of Along The Razor's Edge
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Lessons Never Learned
Read FantasyBook Critic’s review of From Cold Ashes Risen
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of Sins Of The Mother
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of City Of Kings
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of Where Loyalties Lie
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Fifth Empire Of Man
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Heresy Within
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Colour Of Vengeance
Read FantasyBook Critic's review of The Price Of Faith
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of It Takes A Thief To Catch A Sunrise
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of It Takes A Thief To Start A Fire
Read Fantasy Book Critic interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Mini Q&A with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic trilogy completion interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Best Laid Plans Series Interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's SPFBO Aftermath Q&A with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Post COK interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's Never Die Release Interview with Rob J. Hayes
Read Fantasy Book Critic's The War Eternal Trilogy Release Interview
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Pawn’s Gambit Release Interview
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Spirit’s Of Vengeance Release Interview Read A Game of ̶T̶h̶r̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ Death by Rob J. Hayes (guest post)
Book links: Amazon, Goodreads
AUTHOR INFO: Emily St. John Mandel was born and raised on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre and lived briefly in Montreal before relocating to New York.
She is the author of five novels, including The Glass Hotel (spring 2020) and Station Eleven (2014.) Station Eleven was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 34 languages. She lives in NYC with her husband and daughter.
Publisher: Knopf (April 5, 2022) Page count: 276 pages
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Mini-Reviews: No Gods, Only Monsters by Steve McHugh & The Hand That Casts The Bone by H. L. Tinsley
Official Author Website
Order The Hand That Casts The Bone over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of We Men Of Ash And Shadow
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s interview with H. L. Tinsley
Order The Hand That Casts The Bone over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of We Men Of Ash And Shadow
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s interview with H. L. Tinsley
Monday, May 2, 2022
Blog Tour: NO GODS ONLY MONSTERS Q&A with Steve McHugh (interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
Order NO GODS ONLY MONSTERS over HERE
Read chapter one over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of Crimes Against Magic
Sunday, May 1, 2022
EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL + Q&A: The Umbral Storm by Alec Hutson (interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
Pre-order The Umbral Storm over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of The Crimson Queen
Read Fantasy Book Critic's interview with Alec Hutson
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of The Crimson Queen
Read Fantasy Book Critic's interview with Alec Hutson
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