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Review: The Glass Gargoyle – Marie Andreas

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The Glass Gargoyle - Marie Andreas

Genre: Fantasy Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book Magic. Mayhem. Drunken faeries. Archeologist Taryn St. Giles has spent her life mining the ruins of the elves who vanished from the Four Kingdoms a thousand years ago. But when her patrons begin disappearing too—and then turning up dead—she finds herself unemployed, restless, and desperate. So she goes looking for other missing things: as a bounty hunter. Tracking her first fugitive—the distractingly handsome and strangely charming Alric—she unearths a dangerous underworld of warring crime lords, demonic squirrels, and a long-lost elven artifact capable of unleashing a hell on earth. … Read more

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REVIEW: 2176: The Birth of the Belt Republic – Ted Butler

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2176: The Birth of the Belt Republic - Ted Butler

Genre: Sci-Fi, YA Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book His Principal tricked into a swimming pool of dessert? Corporate blacklisting? Riots? Jail breaks? Rocks against machine guns? Rescues? Gas attacks? Space battles? After corporate blacklisting, Gil’s perfect life went into the trash, but it sure got interesting. The greedy corporation has all the big guns and all the little ones too. The Belters have rocks. Hopeless? Honor student Gil helped set up the swimming pool prank with 300 kilos of dessert. That prank went badly wrong. Gil has to grow up fast. He joins a secret society, … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Writing in the Margins

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Growing up, I was an insatiable reader. Starting with the Lord of the Rings in third grade, I moved through the canons of Asimov, Clarke, Silverberg, McCaffrey, Heinlein and many more by the time I hit junior high. It wasn’t until I was in eighth grade and realized I had crushes on other boys in my class that I noticed the lack of diversity in speculative fiction. And it wasn’t until much later – after I came out at twenty-three – that I started thinking about actually writing my own queer characters. My very first one was a gay, winged … Read more