The 2013 Gemmell Awards are finally over. I think the Gemmells are a more accurate than other awards like the Hugos because it seems like the fans and readers actually have an impact. Everyone gets to vote in each category. Nobody has to pay to vote. Then again, many people have pointed out that authors…
James S.A. Corey’s Expanse Coming to TV!
Originally found at Variety, it appears that the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, the pseudonym for wordsmiths Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, has become a television project in which the pilot is to be written by the people behind Iron Man, Mark Fergus and Hawk Otsby. I’ve yet to read the series but Leviathan Wakes…
A Bitter Draft 2.0 is Live!
After much deliberation I opted to grab my own domain and with the help of Justin of Staffer’s Book Review it is now presentable. The transition from Blogger to WordPress was mostly smooth outside of some formatting problems with the previous posts. Bear with me as I progressively fix them over the next several days and…
Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge – WWEnd
(This post is tough to repair to presentability after the migration from Blogger to WP, I apologize.) So I’m only half a year late to the party, but I decided to jump on board and participate in Worlds Without End’s 2013 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge. The challenge is to read 12 books by…
Book Haul and Upcoming Reads
I’ve been pretty slow on reading recently and I can’t really say why, as I don’t know myself. At any rate, I’ve got a haul of recent books and ARCS that look promising. Aidan Harte’s Irenicon was one that I won in a contest from the awesome people over at Jo Fletcher, and the book has…