Tor is a powerhouse publisher, packed with great authors. I was skeptical that next year could possibly match the scale of great new debuts and other releases of this year. After browsing Tor’s 2014 catalog, it’s probably safe to say I was dead wrong. From Tor’s 2014 Catalog: “On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof…
I stumbled across Campbell’s Sea of Ghosts back in May, and what caught my initial interest was the cover. A man in heavy diving gear trudging out of the depths with some fierce looking weapons strapped to his back – but the book dropped further and further down my list while more books were added. It…
To celebrate today’s release of the final book in the Gallow trilogy, The Last Bastion, Nathan Hawke has stopped by with a word on writing the series and writing in general AND to bring us another fantastic story of Gallow Truesword, Witches’ Reach. Writers, as a breed, are a fairly neurotic lot. We used to keep…
After I finished Blood of the Mantis, I immediately sent an email to Pyr asking after the rest of the series and they obliged. I soon found out that Pyr didn’t have plans for anything after book 5, The Scarab Path, which is a shame because they format the books to be a bit taller, shortening the…
The first time I noticed Jonathan Grimwood’s The Last Banquet was when I saw it up on NetGalley several weeks ago and I thought about how cool the cover was. For some reason I cast it aside, telling myself I already have plenty of books to read. Weeks pass, and reviews from a few bloggers I trust…
