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Stitches, 4th & Final Book of The Prospero Chronicles — Unveiled!

11/6/2018

After too many years of pitfalls and promises, it's finally arriving, for real, with a release date and cover and everything! The Prospero Chronicles will have an ending at last.

Release day is December 18th (yes, this December 18th). Ebook pre-orders are live, and Patreon subscribers, even at the $1/month level, can download it NOW.

If you're one of those amazing fans of the series who's been waiting for this news since day one, I just want to say, thank you! This book would not have happened without your enthusiasm and patience.

If, on the other hand, you're someone who's thought about delving into the interdimensional alien horrors of Prospero but never quite got around to buying a ticket, you can now do so without fear of being left on a permanent cliffhanger.

So, without further ado, let's have a look at Stitches!

This is Prospero’s darkest hour. The few remaining humans trapped within the quarantine zone are all but defenseless against the multiplying forces of the Sliver Queen, Locusta. With Ben missing, Aldo among the enemy ranks, and more steel plates than bones left in her body, Mina’s passing the hours drowning in morphine and throwing heavy objects at her guards.

Stripped of her weapons, her gadgets, and the Network itself, she has just one card left, hidden somewhere under her oft-sutured skin. It might be powerful enough to complete her life’s work once and for all… or to reach the one person who could make her life into more than a means to an end. But playing it will cost everything she has, or everything she believes in.

The final chronicle of Prospero waits in these pages.

Release date: December 18, 2018

Pre-order links:

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iBooks

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Paperback options will be available by release day at the latest, if you're waiting on something to wrap and put under the tree :)

Thanks again, to everyone who knew, or even vaguely hoped, this day would come!

Book Review: Caraval

9/26/2018

Book Review:

Caraval

Stephanie Garber

Flatiron Books, 2017

Grade: B

The Basics:

Scarlett and her sister, Tella, have always wanted to experience Caraval, a traveling show and game hosted by a mysterious entertainer known only as Legend. For years, Scarlett has written letters to Legend, imploring him to bring Caraval back to their island so that they can partake of its magic, as their grandmother claims she once did. On the year when Scarlett is set to escape her island, her father, and her childhood once and for all through a fashionable arranged marriage, Legend finally responds. Tella refuses to cast aside this long-awaited chance in the name of good sense, and throws herself so deeply into the game that Scarlett must not only play but win, if she wants to salvage any trace of her family, her marriage, or her desperately held ideas on the world.

The Downside:

The “nothing is as it seems” nature of Caraval sets it up for high expectations of twists and mind games. Those things exist here, and they’re fine and adequate, but not quite as satisfying as I was hoping for. There’s no moment where everything clicks and makes sense or does a complete one-eighty. It’s more of a gradual ninety degree curve, with plenty of time to adjust along the way. As a fan of interactive theater in real life, I also have to note how incredibly frustrating and disappointing Caraval would be as a game for the average non-main-character player who paid and traveled insane sums and distances to be there. That one’s more of a personal and silly gripe, but I couldn’t help thinking about how awful Legend’s Yelp score would be.

The Upside:

Garber seriously knows how to set up a story, and how to set a scene. I knew I had to buy the book after flipping through the first few pages, which introduce us to Scarlett and Tella, their wants and histories, and the wonder and menace of Caraval and Legend, all with a series of brief letters. It’s a demonstration of succinct show-don’t-tell that deserves to be studied.

Likewise, the visual beauty and allure of the Caraval arena is vividly rendered, to the point where I now have a crisper memory of it than I do of many real places I’ve actually been. There’s a palpable sense of magic emanating from every scene, and the forms that magic takes often have an unsettling mischief about them. The use of secrets as currency within the magical world of Caraval is a memorable touch that serves to drag character revelations to the surface and even add a touch of dark humor here and there.

My favorite scene of all might be the one in which Scarlett tries to buy a dress by taking a magical lie detector test and can’t figure out the answer to “What is your deepest desire?” Characters usually have their secrets neatly defined and waiting on the tips of their tongues to be revealed, but Scarlett, like many people, has as much difficulty knowing herself as she does sharing herself. This is not to say, of course, that Garber does not know her.

While I wasn’t able to get as invested in the relationships as I was hoping, Scarlett’s story is ultimately one of outgrowing fairytale love, and discovering the need for something more mutual and substantial, so the romance works well in that sense. Altogether a story with the power to linger.

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Book Review: Sunbolt (The Sunbolt Chronicles #1)

8/19/2018

Book Review:

Sunbolt (The Sunbolt Chronicles #1)

Intisar Khanani

Purple Monkey Press, 2013

Grade: A

The Basics:

As an illegal Rogue Promise, Hitomi must conceal her magical aptitude, for fear of being forced to devote her abilities to exacting the will of the rich and powerful. By day, she hides among the struggling merchants of Karolene, but by night, she works with an outlaw legend known only as the Ghost, to protect the few dissenters who remain. When she’s captured by their enemies, she’ll have to cooperate with a Breather, a life-draining creature she once thought of as nothing but a nightmare monster, to survive. And even if they manage to escape, she might never make it back to the life she remembers.

The Downside:

Sunbolt is the first book of its series, but it feels structurally like the transitional middle of a trilogy. We meet Hitomi as an established member of the Shadow League, with its own internal personality conflicts and its work already in progress. All too soon, she’s separated from her allies and sent instead on a buddy road trip adventure, spending much of it unconscious or weakened from magic use.

I often found myself wishing I could go back and read a nonexistent previous book about her time in the Shadow League. Not because such a book is necessary to understand or appreciate this one, but because the taste we get of that story was my favorite part. I’m crossing my fingers that we get more of the League in future installments.

The Upside:

I read Khanani’s debut, Thorn, about a year ago and liked it a lot, so The Sunbolt Chronicles have been on my radar for a while, and I’m wishing I hadn’t dragged my feet so long. Sunbolt is the first series opener in quite a while that’s made me need to buy the next book right now.

Hitomi is an instant favorite, charmingly bumbling and resourceful at once. Nothing ever goes quite the way she plans, but she keeps on adapting on the fly until something works. She’s heroic and confident in her worthiness to be the one to tackle any given problem, but self-preservation still kicks in often enough to saddle her with some weighty moral grayness.

As was the case in Thorn, the fantasy world is drawn with efficient but vivid lines. The details are right where they need to be to make the story come alive, and invisible where they would get in the way. Scenes of magic are surprisingly dynamic. There are only so many ways authors can describe swirling patterns of light and psychic exhaustion, but Khanani manages to make even Hitomi’s spellcraft challenges interesting and different, especially when they involve conversations with birds.

There’s no love story in Sunbolt, and while I won’t be disappointed if there turns out to be one later in the series (Hitomi left a few interesting men back in Karolene that I’m hoping to meet again), it’s always refreshing to watch a heroine, especially of a YA fantasy, focus entirely on other things for a change.

All in all, though I’m hoping to get back to what the Shadow League’s up to eventually, I expect I’ll gladly follow Hitomi wherever she goes.

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Book Review: Daughters of Anarchy, Season 1

8/17/2018

Book Review:

Daughters of Anarchy, Season 1

C.A. Hartman

5280 Press, 2016

Grade: B+

The Basics:

In the not too distant future, government surveillance is everywhere, from offices to streets to homes. Citizens hardly notice the intrusion anymore, yet crime remains rampant and often unpunished, especially among the irreproachable elite. Men are now the significant minority but no less the powerbrokers of the population, basking in an abundance of women desperate enough to rewrite their DNA for a chance at scoring a provider husband — a small chance, but not as small as breaking the glass ceiling. Armed with antique weaponry, professional access to the surveillance and its blind spots, and a mistress of disguise’s homegrown gene lab, Stevie sets out to right wrongs in the few untapped shadows that remain.

The Downside:

As the title suggests, the format is fairly episodic. Enjoyable as it is to watch self-satisfied bullies and predators get what’s coming to them, Stevie doesn’t vary her methods much, so there's a bit of a lull in the early middle, as her work becomes monotonous before the overarching plot catches up.

The biggest drawback for me came down to not liking the love interest all that much. Both Stevie and Seth are deeply damaged people, so there is a sort of “matched set” feeling to them. Still, after spending one of her side-adventures coaching another woman on how it’s better to be alone with her self-respect than to settle for catching a man who doesn’t respect her, it feels oddly as if Stevie wants to settle herself. She doesn’t see it that way, because she loves Seth for being the most decent man in the book, but that just means he regularly dismisses and underestimates her instead of trying to rape her. The bar isn’t high in her world.

The Upside:

While I didn’t ultimately find them shippable, the scenes between Stevie and Seth are gloriously, truthfully uncomfortable. Hartman infuses a potent blend of awkwardness, uncertainty, and hurt into Stevie's fondness for someone who doesn’t even realize he’s insulting her, when experience has taught her not to expect better. Their friendship walks the trembling tightrope of “should I just let this slide?” that lies between “should I walk away?” and “should I stick my neck out and try to explain things he couldn’t possibly know from his own experiences?”

I would have liked to see them fall off that tightrope one way or the other by the end, but then, there are more seasons to come.

The relationships between many of the women are excellent too, affectionate but imperfect and filled with chafing disagreements. Stevie's pity for her female neighbors, her long-term friendship with another woman from her former neighborhood, and her curiosity about the mysterious Daughters of Anarchy all highlight the differences that can exist between people who might be lumped together by an outside observer. Even the women who've had near-identical experiences in Stevie's city often come up with entirely different coping strategies, to the point where it becomes a challenge for them to trust or understand each other.

Probably the most compelling dynamic of all involves a character we never meet in person, Stevie’s mother, who remains the loving, well-intentioned voice of all of Stevie’s doubts long after her own death. Her echo in Stevie's head is a character unto itself, as well as a humanizing window into Stevie’s own nature.

Unlike many fictional dystopias, this futuristic city remains but a setting for the story, rather than its primary subject, which serves it well. It’s a lived-in backdrop with no chapter-long history course necessary to understand it, well-painted by the same polished prose that knits the whole book together.

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Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir — Now Available!!!

8/14/2018

It's here, it's here, it's here...

Matt and I are pleased and proud to announce that our latest dark sci-fi adventure, Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir, is now available from Talos Press!

If you've already read Matt's Almost Infamous: A Supervillain Novel, you might notice that Pinnacle City takes place in the same universe, but the characters and story are entirely new. If you haven't read Almost Infamous, don't worry. You don't need any special knowledge going into this one.

What do you need to know about Pinnacle City? Read on.

What It's About:

To some people, Pinnacle City is a glittering metropolis, a symbol of prosperity watched over by the all-star superhero team, the Pinnacle City Guardians. But beneath the glitz and glamour is a gritty underbelly, one still feeling the physical and economic damage of the superhero-villain battles of generations past, where the lower class―immigrants, criminals, aliens, sorcerers, and non-humans alike―jostle and elbow for scraps to scrape by on.

Private investigator Eddie Enriquez is an ex-con and veteran with powers of his own who still bears the scars of his time as a minion for a low-level supervillain. Good work’s been hard to come by until a mysterious woman shows up at his office with a case the police and superheroes are ignoring: the suspicious death of a prominent non-human rights activist.

Meanwhile, superhero Kimberly Kline, a.k.a. Solar Flare, has just hit it big, graduating to the Pinnacle City Guardians. With good looks, incredible superpowers, and a family name that opens doors, the sky is the limit. But in trying to make the world a better place . . . she’ll discover Pinnacle City isn’t as black and white as it once seemed.

From the minds of Matt Carter and Fiona J. R. Titchenell, Pinnacle City is a pulpy, throwback noir of yesteryear, where two people from opposite sides of the track must team up to do good in a world full of bad.

What People Are Saying:

“In this skillfully constructed secondary-world noir novel, having superpowers isn’t always so super, and everyone has something to hide. . . . By allowing everyone to be a little morally grey, Carter and Titchenell spin a superhero story with staying power.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A rollicking take on the all-American superhero tale. It’s Stan Lee meets Dashiell Hammett, with just a little Clive Barker thrown in for good measure.”

—Scott Kenemore, author of The Grand Hotel and Zombie, Ohio

“Lively and endearing, funny and hip, Pinnacle City puts gumshoe to cape and in a fantastic adult alternate history throbbing with modern pop-cultural conflict and absurdities.”

—Johnny Worthen, award-winning author of The Finger Trap

Where can you get a copy? We're glad you asked...

Just about anywhere you'd like:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

iBooks

Kobo

Google Play

Indigo

Books-a-Million

Indiebound

Or if you want to be especially retro-awesome, request it at your local bricks & mortar bookstore.

Happy reading!

Out of the Pocket Is F-BOM's Summer Reading Pick!

7/1/2018

Guys, I've been literally counting down the days to this announcement, and it's finally here.

My very own Out of the Pocket has been selected as F-BOM's summer read!

I'm so incredibly proud and honored to be included among authors like Intisar Khanani, LJ Cohen, and the club's amazing co-founder, Cecelia Isaac.

What's F-BOM, you ask?

It stands for Feminist Book of the Month. Basically, it's a tri-monthly book club featuring independent female sci-fi and fantasy authors. They particularly specialize in books that challenge the typical, gendered narratives you see over and over again.

In their own words, "The Feminist Book of the Month is more than just a book club. For as little as $5.00 a month members will be actively investing in the future of women in science fiction and fantasy."

So what does this mean, exactly?

It means that if you become an F-BOM member this summer, you'll get the F-BOM special edition of Out of the Pocket. It has an exclusive preface, in which I rant rather spectacularly (if I do say so myself) about the various sexist things publishers have said to me.

You'll also be able to order previous F-BOM special editions at a discount, and I can personally vouch for there being some delicious sci-fi and fantasy titles to choose from.

If you're not up for subscribing, you can just get a free membership to the forums, meet some cool people, and watch me answer questions about writing, gender, and genre tropes all summer long. I promise to bring my signature blend of awkward scintillation!

Can you tell I'm a teensy bit excited about this whole thing?

Hoping to see you there!

Book Review: Turquoiseblood

6/7/2018

Book Review:

Turquoiseblood

Cecilia Isaac

First Edition Design Publishing, 2016

A

The Basics:

When Kiri, a young woman from a backwoods mountain village, saves the life of Anya, a dragon suffering a fit of Turquoiseblood madness, the two embark on a quest to get to the bottom of what happened to her. The mystery runs deeper than either of them knows, leading them from the outlying villages, to the castle ruins of the once powerful League, to the heart of the royal court.

Long ago but not far away, Pristina Aikaterine, daughter of the League, tries to root out a traitor and quash the growing unrest over the League’s magic monopoly, unwittingly leaving the breadcrumbs Kiri and Anya will need in order to untangle the subterfuge of their own political era.

The Downside:

Apart from the usual Fantasy difficulties of keeping track of all the names (Tarik and Terricker are two important and completely unrelated characters, for example), the biggest drawbacks are a few hanging threads of untapped potential. The challenge Pristina faces in her timeline is essentially an energy crisis, and it’s thrillingly unclear whether she’s even on the right side of it, but that uncertainty leaves room for so much more exploration than we ever get. In fact, The villain monologues of both timelines are unnecessarily and unfortunately packed with metaphoric mustache-twirling, considering how nuanced and understandable the villains’ motivations otherwise are. There’s also some Fantasy trope-rebelling discussion of the meaninglessness of bloodlines, yet blood does end up tying Kiri to her end of the story, which is otherwise a bit impersonal for a hero’s plotline, driven mainly by curiosity.

The Upside:

The mystery at the center of the forestory is delightfully twisty, casting suspicion one way and then the next with sparse but satisfyingly sprinkled clues. Rather than a cookie-cutter plot, or a simple inversion of that plot that could be guessed by any savvy genre fan, there’s room for viable hypothesizing all over the place, and nobody is safe or above reproach.

Isaac pulls some other wonderful tricks along the way as well. More than once you’ll catch yourself flipping back to realize that no gendered pronoun was ever attached to that doctor or guard character in the background. It’s a shock to recognize how easy it is to make assumptions while reading, almost as much as it’s a relief to find yourself reading a book that, for once, doesn’t reinforce those assumptions.

No attention is ever drawn to it, but the story is full of such rejections of expectation, from the core of the plot to the smallest cosmetic details. Noble ladies have happy, healthy sex lives. Fathers support their daughters. Princesses rule while princes cloister themselves in delicate grief. Heroines charge into danger and take care of business while husbands nag and worry but never get in the way. Men and women both make terrible decisions in the throes of love, without requiring the deliberate manipulation of devilish fatales.

Every stitch in the fabric of Turquoiseblood quietly but insistently questions why the beaten path for female characters need exist, especially in, of all places, worlds of magic where dragons rule the skies.

Agree? Disagree? Comments are always welcome (just keep it civil, folks)!

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Book Review: Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders

5/30/2018

Book Review:

Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor’s) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths

Susanne Alleyn

2012, Spyderwort Press

B-

The Basics:

A guide to common historical errors made and perpetuated by fiction writers, and how to avoid them.

The Downside:

One gets the clear and early impression that Alleyn has read How Not to Write a Novel (as should everyone, incidentally — it’s a useful and hilarious guide to fiction writing in general), and thought, “Hey, I’ll bet I can be even snarkier than that!”

Unfortunately, that snark does not come accompanied by all of Mittelmark & Newman’s wit or knack for helpful analysis. Instead of laugh-out-loud, over-the-top caricatures of a systematic list of general errors, followed by discussion on exactly what's going on and what could be done better, we get repetitive ramblings, calling out specific authors (often by name) for the very specific errors they’ve made that particularly annoyed Alleyn, usually related to the French Revolution.

There are many points when the whole book feels like an excuse to vent these annoyances, in better English but with comparable pomposity and unnecessary meanness to an Internet comments section, cloaked in a line or two of lip service to the cover’s promise of constructive advice. This constructive advice generally boils down to the true but unhelpful “do more research.”

The Upside:

Underneath the off-putting tone, there is some good general advice to be found here as well, particularly about common areas where errors are made, and therefore good targeted starting points for some of that research. There are sections on things like money, noble titling conventions, the availability of certain goods and technologies throughout time and space, origins of common phrases, and traditions (like permanent graves) that are newer and less ubiquitous than many people think.

Other advice — such as choosing time periods you’ll actually enjoy researching, anticipating the different mindsets of people with different experiences from your own, and distrusting the accuracy of movies and historical propaganda penned by the victors — should be fairly obvious to those with some existing background in either writing or history, but are certainly valuable pointers for brand new beginners.

For more seasoned writers/historians, the most useful part of this book will likely be the appendix, detailing rich and underutilized sources of historical information.

Altogether far from a comprehensive guide for beginners (or anyone else), but worth adding to a large stack of introductory books for a hopeful future historical fiction author.

Agree? Disagree? Comments are always welcome (just keep it civil, folks)!

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Cover Reveal! Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir

5/16/2018

Time to ooh and ahh over the unbelievably gorgeous cover of Matt's and my upcoming adult sci-fi title, Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir!

This one's coming in August from Talos Press (pre-orderable now!), and you might or might not have heard Matt or me talking excitedly about it approximately a billion times by now.

It's chock-full of our signature dark humor, some affectionate riffing on comics tropes and history, plenty of social satire, and tons of gritty noir flavor. We're champing at the bit to share it.

And just look at this cover!

About Pinnacle City: A Superhero Noir

To some people, Pinnacle City is a glittering metropolis, a symbol of prosperity watched over by the all-star superhero team, the Pinnacle City Guardians. But beneath the glitz and glamour is a gritty underbelly, one still feeling the physical and economic damage of the superhero-villain battles of generations past, where the lower class―immigrants, criminals, aliens, sorcerers, and non-humans alike―jostle and elbow for scraps to scrape by on.

Private investigator Eddie Enriquez is an ex-con and veteran with powers of his own who still bears the scars of his time as a minion for a low-level supervillain. Good work’s been hard to come by until a mysterious woman shows up at his office with a case the police and superheroes are ignoring: the suspicious death of a prominent non-human rights activist.

Meanwhile, superhero Kimberly Kline, a.k.a. Solar Flare, has just hit it big, graduating to the Pinnacle City Guardians. With good looks, incredible superpowers, and a family name that opens doors, the sky is the limit. But in trying to make the world a better place . . . she’ll discover Pinnacle City isn’t as black and white as it once seemed.

From the minds of Matt Carter and Fiona J. R. Titchenell, Pinnacle City is a pulpy, throwback noir of yesteryear, where two people from opposite sides of the track must team up to do good in a world full of bad.

Coming August 7th 2018, from Talos Press.

Oh, hey, look! Pre-order links!

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

iBooks

Google Play

Indigo

Book Review: Derelict (Halcyone Space #1)

5/6/2018

Book Review:

Derelict (Halcyone Space #1)

L.J. Cohen

A-

The Basics:

To most people, Halcyone is a derelict ship, relic of a bygone war, taking up space in the docks of Daedalus Station. To Ro, it might mean freedom from her father, if she can restore it well enough to impress the University boards. To Micah, it was, until lately, his secret lab, the place where he would find a way to break the cartel’s monopoly on medicinal marijuana. To brothers Jem and Barre, it's the wrong place, wrong time -- or maybe the right one, an escape from Barre’s impending forced brain surgery at the hands of their perfectionist parents.

The Downside:

An odd complaint from an odd reader: the flat, unvaried use of simple past tense robs the prose of the nuance and precision that some well-placed past perfect could add.

The intended subtext also sheds its sub a bit annoyingly often, with characters repeatedly stating out loud how important it is for them all to reject the mistakes of their parents and establish who they are independent of their last names, and hey, what a lot they all have in common! Then there’s the trouble of many of the critical adventure moments coming in the form of hacking, which is, for the most part, as crowd-pleasing as it sounds.

The Upside:

A group of very believably competent and determined teenage characters. Ro is the brusque, rough-around-the-edges, shell-like-a-tank-around-a-gooey-center type, for reasons that are understandable and plainly shown, and she has the skills to get away with it most of the time, but not too often. The whole accidental crew of the Halcyone hangs in the true-to-life adolescent in between, ready to take charge of their lives but doomed to flounder through the mistakes of inexperience that can only be cured by said floundering and mistakes. It’s the most terrifying state to exist in on a ship where mistakes mean explosive decompression, drifting for eternity through space, or execution by the mob, and that's why it works so well.

The antagonistic adults are not simply unreasonable, tyrannical, and condescending, as they might be in a more simplistic narrative, but deeply involved in their own fleshed-out agendas, and there are decent adults to be found too, just doing their jobs as best they can.

Futuristic aesthetics are well established but unobtrusive. The story is not an excuse for the author to wax on about how these future inventions are different, or about the minutiae of the history of a dozen alien worlds, but nor is it told in front of a verbal green screen that might as well be displaying a cafe in San Francisco as an industrial corridor through an endless star field. This future is lived-in and commonplace to its inhabitants but visible to us.

Shifting third person perspective is particularly effective here, for both scene setting and the story at hand. Rather than causing the plot slowdown that often comes with the juggling of several locations and subplots, it allows for special attention to each character within a very tight, interlocking situation, even when some of them are separated by the vacuum of space.

The surprising heart of the story comes in the form of Ro and Nomi, the beautiful and gregarious comms officer. Instead of having their first date as planned, the two women end up spending the duration of the book trying to find each other, and the result is stunningly affecting for a couple who have only about three scenes together.

Definitely worth a read for fans of grungy space opera and prickly, take-charge heroines.

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