New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of July 11th

I have a really interesting selection of books to present to you this week. At first the list of new releases was quite paltry so I had to do a bit of searching around to help supplement it, which means that I came across a number of titles and publishers that I've never heard of before.I have to admit that there is nothing here that really grabs me, though Tribal Ways by Alex Archer seems like it could be worth looking into. If you like zombie books...

No hopping this week

This Friday I decided that instead of participating in the various blog hops and joining more blogs that I don't actually have time to visit, that I would try to follow up on all of the blogs that I had discovered through the hops in previous weeks. I'm starting to feel that these blog hops are becoming more about collecting followers than about actually discovering new blogs that you enjoy or about making connections. I know that few of the bloggers...

Another funny link: Don't ask a designer for help

Another completely off-topic but still very funny link you have to check out.It even elicited some chuckles from me and I'm not much of a chuckler.(And I promise that this one won't take up your whole day like the last one probably did.)Why to never ask a designer for help in finding your catEnj...

Spirit Gate (Crossroads, Bk 1) by Kate Elliott

The last time that I had read a book by Kate Elliott was about eight years ago, when I had been fully engrossed in her Crown of Stars series. And although Elliott had made a great impression on me at the time, I haven't read anything else by her since then, mostly because I have not encountered any of her books here in Israel. But when I recently came across the author online I was reminded of how much I had enjoyed her books and so I decided to...

Free Audio Book: The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

The Audio Book Shop is offering a free download of the audio book The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Lienna Renee Hieber.What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing...

My BBAW Registration

After deliberating about it for a couple of weeks I finally decided to go ahead and register for the upcoming Book Blogger Appreciation Week. It's a bit daunting, knowing that I will be competing against some really wonderful blogs, but I figured it can't hurt to give it a try.So the niche category that I'm registering for is Best Speculative Fiction Book Blog (no surprise there) and the these are the posts that I'm putting forward:1. Review of Lord...

Interview with SciFi Songwriter John Anealio

I'm pleased to welcome here today the talented musician and songwriter, John Anealio, who creates unique and catchy songs based on scifi and fantasy books and movies.Hi John, thanks so much for taking the time to do this interview.According to your blog, Scifi Songs, you write science fiction and fantasy songs, and while I’m familiar with sf&f books and movies I didn’t realize that the genre extends to music as well. Can you please explain...

Free Read: My Love Lies Bleeding

To celebrate the release of Blood Feud, the second book in Alyxandra Harvey’s YA vampire series, Bloomsbury Publishing is offering My Love Lies Bleeding for free download, only for the next 24 hours. You have from midday on Monday 5th July to get your electronic copy of this book. The Blakes are rather different to your usual neighbours. They are vampires and some of the members of the family date back to the twelfth century. One of the children,...

New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of July 4th

This is another great week for new releases, with a new Temeraire novel from Naomi Novik, some awesome looking anthologies and a couple of books that are sure to appeal to animal lovers.As for me, the book that I want to get my hands on the most is Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn. I haven't read her Kitty Norville series but this book sounds it like it could be really good.Hope all of you in the US have a great 4th of July!****************************************************************************************************************Unchained:...