Editor’s note: this update got lost in MY holiday shuffle and should have been up last week. Hopefully we’ll have good news from the post-holiday update! Day: 23 Frozen Burrito Count: 8 Number of times the Inspiration...

Unpossible is a short story collection by Daryl Gregory.  The stories are a mix of both fantasy and science fiction, leaning more towards science fiction.  What I found most unusual about the stories was the science that...

Publisher’s Description: Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully—he’s ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and...

Week Three is here in the NaNoWriMo schedule, with only one week and two days left in the month. How am I doing? In my attempt to write the book I had intended to title Lily and...

  The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder is a really interesting book.  Hodder uses a mix of historical events, real historical people, and complete fiction to tell his stories.  It gives the reader...

Steampunk is one of the coolest, most fascinating subgenres around. It combines the Victorian Age with the idea of advanced steam technology–that is, what sort of progress could the people of that era have made if they...

The first year I attempted NaNoWriMo, I did not take it very seriously.  With two kids, a full-time job, part-time coursework towards a doctorate, and an ex-husband who did not understand the phrase “court-ordered child support,” I...

Yikes! The pressure is building, even though it’s of the self-imposed type, because I still want to meet the challenge I’ve placed upon myself to complete Lily and PAWS: The Thirteen Ghosts of Summer. I’m currently at 23,703...

“The Machine Stops” is an early science fiction short story by E. M. Forster, author of A Passage to India and Howard’s End. It has appeared in countless anthologies used in literature classes for many years. While...

WHEN THE SAINTS listed as Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2011

November #TorChat lineup revealed!   You guessed right…it’s Brandon Sanderson month