Archives for September 2008

Jeff Carlson’s Marketing Success

From Jeff Carlson: Just ahead of the publication of his second novel, sci fi thriller Plague War, author Jeff Carlson and two friends released a “book trailer” entitled 4 Minutes Above 10,000 Feet. Shot in the Sierra mountains, this short film can only be described as Alive meets The Blair Witch Project meets the new […]

Madhouse, by Rob Thurman

By Catherine Cheek If you want to read about tough guys killing monsters, Madhouse, by Rob Thurman is your book. Half-human Cal and his brother Niko are so tough they make Bruce Willis’s character from the Die Hard movies seem like a hemophiliac asthmatic with a gimp knee. With their friend Robin, and Niko’s vampire […]

Free Samples from Pyr Books

Pyr SF offers sample chapters online.

Writers and Illustrators of the Future Vol XXIV

AISFP 63 – Writers and Illustrators of the Future

We present the winners of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future 24.

Lenahan, Anderson, and More

John Lenahan joins the ranks of Sigler, Hutchins, Lafferty, Wallace, and Harwood as podcast novelists to break into print. I listened to John’s Shadowmagic via Podiobooks, and it’s a fun fantasy tale that made my drive home much more enjoyable. The book has been published in a limited edition hardcover, numbered and signed by the […]

ErRatic, by N.D. Hansen-Hill

by Catherine Cheek ErRatic, by N.D. Hansen-Hill is a quirky and unique paranormal horror novel. Unlike dark urban fantasies, where the magic has rules that everyone understands, the unusual happenings in this novel astound and confuse and occasionally terrify the characters. Emma Rathburn summons rats, not intentionally, but every once in a while thousands of […]

The Year of Disappearances

by Catherine Cheek ‘The Year of Disappearances’ by Susan Hubbard, treats the story of a vampire growing up among mortals with the same delicacy as you’d expect from an author talking about someone who had cancer, or was a political refugee, or had some other hardship thrust upon her. The main character, Ariella Montero, is […]

AISFP 62 – Sean Williams

Sean Williams, author of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, discusses his latest projects and speaks with the winners of the Writers of the Future contest.