Dear Author has just reviewed, Smoketown and here’s a bit of the reviewer had to say:
“The characters each had not exactly a secret, but maybe a small mystery behind them, which are first hinted at and then revealed in each individual’s “song” which is played in the main symphony. I say “song” not because every character in the book was singing, but because at times the writing felt very musical and very passionate to me .
. . I truly did feel that the city of Leodaire was a living breathing thing in this book; the city which was still hurting from the traumatic event of its past and which finally started healing at the end of the book.
I really loved how the hope and darkness are both present in this story and that hope eventually prevails.”
The full review is available here.
April 30, 2013 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Dark Fantasy, Novel, Reviews, Science Fiction, Smoketown, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
Shewired has posted an excerpt of Smoketown on their site. You can check it out here.
May 1, 2012 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Book Excerpt, Dark Fantasy, Just a Taste, Novel, Science Fiction, SheWired, Smoketown, spec fic, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
“Only Then Can I Sleep,” a short dark fantasy story about what one will do for love will be published in the upcoming anthology Love and Darker Passions out soon. I’ll update with exact publications info as soon as I can.
February 1, 2012 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Anthologies, Coming Soon, Dark Fantasy, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
I’ll be reading at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts on March 23rd with a group of great writers including Rebecca Rowe, Nick DiChario and Will Ludwigsen. Kelly Link and China Mieville are the author guests of honor this year so should be a great one.
And in August I have the great pleasure of reading with Jeffrey Ford at KGB Bar’s Fantastic Fiction series, curated by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel. August 15th, 8pm, KGB Bar, Manhattan.
I’ll update more as more dates are added.
January 16, 2012 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Coming Soon, Dark Fantasy, dystopia, Ellen Datlow, International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts, Jeffrey Ford, KGB Bar, KGB Reading Series, Matthew Kressel, R/evolution, Reading, Science Fiction, Smoketown, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
The folks at Blind Eye Books have been kind enough to make Chapter 1 available as a downloadable PDF, just click here for the link: Smoketown Chapter 1
July 24, 2011 | Categories: Updates | Tags: Dark Fantasy, first chapter, LGBT, Smoketown, spec fic, Speculative Fiction | Leave A Comment »
