New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of August 1

August is an exciting month for new releases with Brandon Sanderson's Way of of Kings coming out as well as Brent Weeks's new novel, Black Prism and the much-anticipated Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Unfortunately it won't be until the end of the month that those particular books will be available, though there are some other new releases that look like they might keep me happily occupied in the meantime.This week I have my eye on Shades of Milk...

Meet the Mercy Thompson Cover Girl at Tor

Tor.com has an interesting post about the woman who models for Patricia Brigg's Mercy Thompson books as well as a brief interview with the cover artist, Dan Dos Santos.Santos's cover style is what has inspired many of the current urban fantasy covers today, and he talks about the challenges in creating unique covers and how he came up with the ideas for Brigg's Books.You can check out this article he...

Audio Book Review: Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon

Paksenarrion has dreamed for years of becoming a soldier, like her cousin. When Paks's overbearing father tries to marry her off to a local pig farmer Paks runs away and joins a mercenary company that is recruiting in the area. While training to become a soldier is nothing like Paks had expected, she quickly adjusts to military life and with steady determination becomes a skilled and respected fighter. Deeply loyal to her mercenary company and the...

Shadow's Son by Jon Sprunk

In the holy city of Othir, treachery and corruption lurk at the end of every street, just the place for a freelance assassin with no loyalties and few scruples.Caim makes his living on the edge of a blade, but when a routine job goes south, he is thrust into the middle of an insidious plot. Pitted against crooked lawmen, rival killers, and sorcery from the Other Side, his only allies are Josephine, the socialite daughter of his last victim, and Kit,...

Free Read for Kindle: Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon

Amazon is currently offering Kay Kenyon's highly acclaimed scifi/fantasy novel, Bright of the Sky, for free download on their Kindle. And even if you don't have a Kindle you should be able to download this book with one of Amazon's free Kindle applications. On the downside, this offer does not look like it is available outside of the US though if you have a US connection they may be able to download it for you (which is what I'm going to try to do).Into...

Must-See Fake Trailer: Jane Austen's Fight Club

This video has been making the rounds lately and while it's likely that most of you have already seen it, I decided to post it anyways because it's just so darn awesome....

New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of July 25

Most of this week's new releases appear to be sequels in series that I've not yet read (or don't intend to) so there is not much here that tempts me, though Christopher Golden's vampire novel, Of Saints and Shadows, does capture my interest (even though I'm not a fan of Jim Butcher and never read Dan Brown). I have heard good things about Rowena Cory Daniells's fantasy series and do hope to read that one soon and Todd J. McCaffrey's Dragongirl does...