Risingshadow: April 2015 Edition

Sarah Pinborough's Poison will be published by Titan Books in March 2015. (This book was originally published in 2013.) Information about Sarah Pinborough: Sarah Pinborough is a critically acclaimed horror, thriller and YA author. In the UK she is published by both Gollancz and Jo Fletcher Books at Quercus and by Ace, Penguin and Titan in the US. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and she has a horror film Cracked currently in development and another original screenplay ... [read more]

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Madness in Solidar was published by Tor Books (UK website/US website) in March 2015. Information about L. E. Modesitt, Jr.: L. E. Modesitt, Jr. is the bestselling author of over sixty novels encompassing two science fiction series and four fantasy series, as well as several other novels in the science fiction genre. Mr. Modesitt has been a delivery boy; a lifeguard; an unpaid radio disc jockey; a U.S. Navy pilot; a market research analyst; a real estate agent; a ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing the Canadian speculative fiction author Alexander Zelenyj. Alexander Zelenyj is the author of the books Songs For The Lost, Experiments At 3 Billion A.M., Ballads To The Burning Twins: The Complete Song Lyrics Of The Deathray Bradburys, and Black Sunshine. His fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies throughout the world. He lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Visit him at alexanderzelenyj.com. Click here to visit Songs For The ... [read more]

Michael W. Garza's Children of the Mark was published by Severed Press in March 2015. Information about Michael W. Garza: Michael W. Garza often finds himself wondering where his inspiration will come from next and in what form his imagination will bring it to life. The outcomes regularly surprise him and it's always his ambition to amaze those curious enough to follow him and take in those results. He encourages readers to peek at his latest work as well as the material he's published in ... [read more]

Peter R. Ellis' The Power of Seven was published by Elsewhen Press as an e-book in January 2015. The paperback edition will be published in March 2015. Information about Peter R. Ellis: Peter would like to say he's been a writer all his life but it is only since retiring as a teacher in 2010 that he has been able to devote enough time to writing to call it a career. Brought up in Cardiff, he studied Chemical Physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught chemistry (and a bit of ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by the fantasy author Seth Skorkowsky. Seth Skorkowsky is the author of the Valducan urban fantasy series (Dämoren and Hounacier) and the Black Raven fantasy series (Mountain of Daggers and Sea of Quills). Click here to visit the author's official website. GUEST POST: Pulp Heroes - Why We Love Them [read more]

Peter R. Ellis' Seventh Child was published by Elsewhen Press as an e-book in January 2015. The paperback edition will be published in March 2015. Information about Peter R. Ellis: Peter would like to say he's been a writer all his life but it is only since retiring as a teacher in 2010 that he has been able to devote enough time to writing to call it a career. Brought up in Cardiff, he studied Chemical Physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught chemistry (and a bit of ... [read more]

Tej Turner's The Janus Cycle was published by Elsewhen Press as an e-book in January 2015. The paperback edition will be published in April 2015. Information about Tej Turner: Tej Turner is fresh out of University, where he partied vigorously and studied Creative Writing and Ancient History to sharpen his craft. He has just begun branching out as a writer and been published in anthologies, including Impossible Spaces (Hic Dragones) and The Bestiarum Vocabulum (Western Legends Press). When he ... [read more]

Sir Terry Pratchett, fantasy author and creator of the Discworld series, has died aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. More info. [read more]

Risingshadow had the honour of interviewing the author Suzanne van Rooyen last year. Suzanne is having a new book coming out in the end of the month and I was lucky enough to get an ARC. The book is called I Heart Robot and it is set to the future Skandinavia, somewhere where Sweden used to be. I had read her previous books and was very impressed - especially with The Other Me (not SFF). So when a chance came for me to read her new book, I Heart Robot, as an ARC, I snatched it and started to ... [read more]

[author_3800] [book_48220_quote_right] A REVIEW OF CAT RAMBO'S BEASTS OF TABAT [read more]

James Robert Smith's A Confederacy of Horrors was published by Hippocampus Press in January 2015. Information about James Robert Smith: James Robert Smith lives with his wife, son, and two requisite cats near Charlotte, NC. He has made more than sixty short story sales, has had his comic scripts published by Marvel Comics, Kitchen Sink, Spyderbabies Grafix, and others. He is co-editor of the Arkham House anthology, Evermore. The Flock is his first novel. Click here to visit the author's ... [read more]

Grimm Mistresses was published by Angelic Knight Press (an imprint of Ragnarok Publications) in February 2015. Grimm Mistresses is an anthology of five stories written by Mercedes M. Yardley, Allison M. Dickson, S. R. Cambridge, C. W. LaSart and Stacey Turner. Information about the authors: Mercedes M. Yardley is a dark fantastic who wears red lipstick and poisonous flowers in her hair. She writes short stories, novellas, and novels. Her latest release is Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of ... [read more]

Todd Yunker's Shackleton's Folly was published in January 2015. Information about Todd Yunker: Todd Yunker is Oregonian and lives in Salem, Oregon. Todd is an award-winning author of the epic science fiction The Lost Wonder Series, book one Shackleton's Folly. Growing up, Sci-Fi permeated Todd's youth and adolescence. He was an avid reader. He devoured all the books he could find in the library. Todd relished classic Sci-Fi feature films and Japanese monster movies. He indulged his fancy and ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by fantasy author Courtney Schafer. Courtney Schafer is the author of The Shattered Sigil trilogy (The Whitefire Crossing, The Tainted City and The Labyrinth of Flame). Courtney Schafer was born in Georgia, raised in Virginia, and spent her childhood dreaming of adventures in the jagged mountains and sweeping deserts of her favorite fantasy novels. She escaped the east coast by attending Caltech for college, where in addition to obtaining ... [read more]

(Wings of Fire: Winglets #1)

Fans of the New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series won't want to miss this all-new story set in the dangerous world of dragons! Fierceteeth knows she could have been a dragonet of destiny. She's a much better NightWing than that weird brother of hers, Starflight. Her dreams of glory have been painfully scorched, though, and now she and Strongwings are captives in the SandWing prison, waiting to be put on trial. Fierceteeth just wants a chance to tell her side of the story -- before ... [read more]

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(Lovecraft Illustrated #6)

A novella. Cover and interior illustrations by Pete Von Sholly. Cosmic horror broods and festers in the unexplored frozen wastes while a doomed expedition into a crumbling metropolis stirs the things still lurking in the caverns below. [read more]

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(The Icarus Corps #1)

People used to wonder if we were alone in the universe. Well, we're not. Not by a long shot. Aliens come in all shapes and sizes, and even the good guys are likely to haunt your nightmares. And oh, you'll have nightmares, even after you leave the service. If you leave the service. Devin is a reluctant conscript to an alien-run army: when the Accordance conquered Earth, they said it was to prepare against the incoming alien Conglomeration forces. But as Devin travels to the dark side of the ... [read more]

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(A Shade of Vampire #11)

"We need to discover what the twins have. Before it's too late."With a black witch hard on their heels, Caleb and Rose embark on a race against time to escape the heart of the Amazon and make it back to The Shade.Little do they know how much more hangs in the balance than their own survival... [read more]

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World Fantasy Award nominee 2016. Edited by Ellen Datlow. An anthology featuring all-original dark tales of dolls from bestselling and award-winning authors, compiled by one of the top editors in the field The Doll Collection is exactly what it wounds like: a treasured toy box of all-original dark stories about dolls of all types, including everything from puppets and poppets to mannequins and baby dolls. Featuring everything from life-sized clockwork dolls to all-too-human ... [read more]

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A thrilling and colorful Lovecraftian adventure Harrison Harrison — H2 to his mom — is a lonely teenager who’s been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished.  One of the “sensitives” who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place for a boy like him: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town perched on rocks above the ... [read more]

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(The Empire #3)

Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find out who you really are. After being kidnapped by a bounty hunter and getting mixed up with a band of rebels, Adrian and Kali are finally together. They find a quiet corner of the galaxy to live in peace and... who are we kidding... Just when they think it's safe, the unthinkable happens. Adrian, a brilliant scientist who prides himself on the perfect mind, loses everything. Kali has to revisit something she abhors in order to save him, and ... [read more]

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Sword fights and romance, miracles and mystery, treachery and sly humour... A god summons a curious assortment of witnesses to his temple to testify on what they know about a jewel that was lost a thousand years ago. At least one of them is guilty. Others are lying... Dave Duncan at his devious best. [read more]

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A novella. When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare. Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he’s been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment. He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns and everything changes. Then the messages begin. Will’s discovered something unspeakable and it’s crawling slowly into the light. [read more]

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A novella. For some, dying is easy. For others, dying is their only hope. Charlie Dawes lies in the Old Oak Hospice haunted by the looming specter of death, plagued by dark memories, stalked by a mysterious, faceless creature he knows only as the Shadowman, who won’t let him die... yet. Cathy Redman, his only friend and a caretaker in the ward, spends her time reading to Charlie and comforting his pain. She thinks she knows him. But when an inquisitive detective, a spiteful ... [read more]

Horror

(Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #5)

Discover the origins of the warrior Clans in the fifth book of this thrilling prequel arc in Erin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series. The Dawn of the Clans arc takes readers back to the earliest days of the Clans, when the cats first settled in the forest and began to forge the warrior code. The spirit-cats have spoken: to survive, the cats from the mountains must grow and spread like the Blazing Star. Clear Sky believes the only way to grow is to band together ... [read more]

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(The Foreigner Universe #16)

Tracker is the sixteenth installment of C. J. Cherryh's acclaimed Foreigner series. It’s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron’s return from space — a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government over­thrown and their world in chaos. Now, at last, things are calming down; the Assassins’ Guild is functioning again, working out its internal difficulties, and Bren is ... [read more]

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In the darkness of a underground cave, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive; to whisper is to summon death. As the hordes lay waste to Europe, a girl watches to see if they will cross the sea. Deaf for years, she knows how to live in silence; now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others. But what kind of world will be left? [read more]

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From the author of the Hugo-winning Spin, a compelling science fiction novel about the next ways that social media will be changing everything In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies — genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Alice in the Country of Clover)

"IF YOU CHOOSE ONE PATH, YOU LOSE ALL THE OTHERS." Alice has been whisked to the Country of Clover, but at least her home-Hatter Mansion-came along for the move. Her intimate friendship with Elliot gives her strength to face the new challenges, but he's a man of contradictions, and she's uneasy about his hard mobster interior lurking behind the grinning goofball exterior. When she starts to fall for him, however, memories of her past world resurface that begin to sway her. Clover is a dangerous place for hesitation. Beware the talking doors! [read more]

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(Meteor Prince #2)

An alien prince falls from the sky and wants to marry Hako—a girl with the worst luck ever?! Strange accidents always seem to happen around Hako Natsuno—so much so that she’s been dubbed the “Queen of Bad Luck.” It’s hardly surprising then that a naked alien prince falls from the sky to tell her that out of all the girls in the universe, he’s come to Earth to mate with her. Does this mean Hako’s luck has changed, or…? Hako Natsuno’s bad luck hasn’t improved, but her ... [read more]

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(A Tale of Two Castles #2)

Newbery Honor author of Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine weaves a thrilling tale of mystery in this companion to A Tale of Two Castles. Elodie, the dragon detective Meenore, and the kindly ogre Count Jonty Um are all on their way to Elodie’s home island of Lahnt. Elodie has barely set foot on land before she learns that the Replica, a statue that keeps her island’s deadly volcano from erupting, has been stolen! If the Replica isn’t found in three days, a mountain will be ... [read more]

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In the bestselling vein of Guillermo Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed author Chimera and The Hydra Protocol delivers his spectacular breakout novel — an entertaining page-turning zombie epic that is sure to become a classic Anyone can be positive... The tattoed plus sign on Finnegan’s hand marks him as a Positive. At any time, the zombie virus could explode in his body, turning him from a rational human into a ravenous monster. His only chance of a normal life is to ... [read more]

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(Age of Legends #2)

In this heart-stopping sequel to the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows, which Kirkus Reviews called "a standout," Ashyn and Moria must overcome deadly enemies — not all of them human — as they attempt to help avert a war for the empire. Blending fantasy, romance, danger, and action, Kelley Armstrong sends readers on a thrilling journey through an unforgettable world, perfect for fans of Graceling and Game of Thrones. Sisters Moria and Ashyn are the Keeper and Seeker of ... [read more]

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(Fairy Queens #2)

Poised to become the most powerful priestess in Idara, Nelay doesn’t have time to become a pretty bauble for the king. She’s too busy saving her people from the invading army sweeping across her kingdom. But in defeat after defeat, Nelay begins to realize a bigger power is at play than that wielded by mere mortals. Only she can stand between the cinders of her once-great nation and the vengeance of a goddess. If she fails, the remnants of her kingdom will turn to ash. [read more]

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