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GUEST POST: Birth of the Outriders by Jay Posey

[author_image_7772]Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Jay Posey. Jay is a narrative designer, author, and screenwriter by trade. He started working in the video game industry in 1998, and has been writing professionally for over a decad…

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A review of Gavin Scott's The Age of Treachery

Gavin Scott's The Age of Treachery was published by Titan Books in April 2016. Information about Gavin Scott: Gavin Scott is a British Hollywood screenwriter who spent twenty years as a radio and tel…

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A review of Donald Michael Platt's The Sorceress and the Skull

Donald Michael Platt's The Sorceress and the Skull was published by Penmore Press in February 2016. Information about Donald Michael Platt: Donald Michael Platt was born and raised in San Francisco, …

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GUEST POST by Lorraine Carey

[author_image_9431]Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Lorraine Carey. (This guest post has been written in third person.) Information about Lorraine Carey in her own words: "I …

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A review of Tanya Reimer's Can't Dream Without You

Tanya Reimer's Can't Dream Without You was published as an e-book by Elsewhen Press in January 2016. The paperback edition was published in February 2016. Information about Tanya Reimer: Born and rai…

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GUEST POST: How Robin McKinley Made Me a Life Long Reader by Melanie R. Meadors

Melanie R. Meadors is the author of fantasy and science fiction stories where heroes don't always carry swords and knights in shining armor often lose to nerds who study their weaknesses. She’s been …

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A review of Dead Letters (edited by Conrad Williams)

Dead Letters (edited by Conrad Williams) was published by Titan Books in April 2016. Information about the editor: Conrad Williams has written seven novels, four novellas and a short story collection…

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A review of Cody Goodfellow's Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales

Cody Goodfellow's Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales was published by Hippocampus Press in March/April 2016. Information about Cody Goodfellow: Cody Goodfellow has written five novels a…

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A review of Hal Duncan's Testament

Hal Duncan's Testament was published by Eibonvale Press in October 2015. Information about Hal Duncan: Hal Duncan is a scion of 1970s Scotland, a queer kid who left Kilwinning to study at Glasgow Uni…

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A review of Helen Lowe's Daughter of Blood

Helen Lowe's Daughter of Blood, the third novel in The Wall of Night series of epic fanatsy novels, was published by Harper Voyager and Orbit Books in January 2016. Information about Helen Lowe: Hele…

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