Risingshadow: April 2017 Edition

Stephanie Burgis' Congress of Secrets was published by Pyr in November 2016. Information about Stephanie Burgis: Stephanie Burgis was born in Michigan, but now lives in Wales with her husband, writer Patrick Samphire, and their children. Before becoming a fulltime writer, she studied music history as a Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria, and worked as a website editor for a British opera company. She has published over thirty short stories for adults. Kat, Incorrigible (US)/A Most Improper ... [read more]

Michael Wehunt's The Tired Sounds, A Wake was published by Dim Shores in December 2016. Information about Michael Wehunt: Michael Wehunt grew up in North Georgia, close enough to the Appalachians to feel them but not quite easily see them. There were woods, and woodsmoke, and warmth. He did not make it far when he left, falling sixty miles south to the lost city of Atlanta, where he lives today, with fewer woods but still many trees. He writes. He reads. Robert Aickman fidgets next to ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Tim Lebbon. Information about Tim Lebbon: Tim Lebbon is the New York Times bestselling author of the movie novelizations of 30 Days of Night and The Cabin in the Woods, and of the Alien-Predator trilogy “The Rage War”. He has also written many critically acclaimed horror and dark fantasy novels, including Coldbrook and The Silence. Tim has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, a Shocker, a Tombstone and been a ... [read more]

Victor Joly's The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales was published by Snuggly Books in October 2016. Information about Victor Joly: Vincent-Victor Joly (1807-1870), was born in Brussels where, in the 1830s, he built his reputation as a journalist and playwright, cultivating a strong interest in Belgian history and legendry episodes, which he dramatized in several plays and a number of short novels. He also published tourist guides to his homeland. The last of his works of fiction ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Tej Turner. Tej Turner is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. His debut novel The Janus Cycle was published by Elsewhen Press in 2015 and its sequel Dinnusos Rises is due to be published later this year. He has also had short stories featured in a few anthologies, including Impossible Spaces (Hic Dragones Press) and The Bestiarum Vocabulum (Western Legends). Tej Turner has spent much of his life on the move and does not have any particular ... [read more]

Joe R. Lansdale's Blood and Lemonade will be published by Tachyon Publications in March 2017. Information about Joe R.Lansdale: Joe R. Lansdale is the internationally-bestselling author of over forty novels, including twelve books featuring the popular Hap and Leonard. Many of his cult classics have been adapted for television and film, most famously Bubba Ho-Tep, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Lansdale has written numerous screenplays and teleplays, including for the iconic Batman ... [read more]

Verity Holloway's Pseudotooth was published by Unsung Stories in March 2017. Information about Verity Holloway: Born in Gibraltar in 1986, Verity Holloway grew up following her Navy family around the world. Always on the move, dealing with the effects of her connective tissue disorder, Marfan syndrome, she found friendly territory in fantasy, history, and Fortean oddities. In 2007, she graduated from Cambridge's Anglia Ruskin University with a First Class BA in Literature and Creative ... [read more]

Galactic Empires (edited by Neil Clarke) was published by Night Shade Books in January 2017. Information about Neil Clarke: Neil Clarke is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor and publisher. He is the owner of Wyrm Publishing and editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Forever Magazine, and several anthologies, including the Best Science Fiction of the Year series. Click here to visit his official website. Information about Galactic Empires: Neil Clarke, publisher of the ... [read more]

Christopher Barzak's Wonders of the Invisible World was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in September 2015. Information about Christopher Barzak: Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Fantasy Award winning novel, One for Sorrow, which has been made into the Sundance feature film Jamie Marks is Dead. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. His most recent novel, Wonders of the Invisible ... [read more]

Toadhouse's Living and Dying in a Mind Field was published by Snuggly Books in February 2017. Information about Toadhouse: Toadhouse, a.k.a. Allan Graham, was born in San Francisco, California, in 1943. He is an artist whose work includes sculpture, painting, poetry, and video. Information about Living and Dying in a Mind Field: Words are an obscure form of consciousness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . we are always left with blank spaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... [read more]

Jason Rolfe's An Archive of Human Nonsense was published by Snuggly Books in February 2017. Information about Jason Rolfe: Jason Rolfe was born and raised in Southwestern Ontario. His work has appeared in numerous online and print venues, including Sein und Werden, Pure Slush, Cease Cows, Apocrypha & Abstraction, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, and Black Scat Review. His first collection, An Inconvenient Corpse, appeared as number 30 in Black Scat Books’ Absurdist Texts and Documents ... [read more]

(Star Wars)

Relive the excitement of of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with this action-packed retelling! Follow along as a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star Wars timeline brings together ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things, and in doing so, become part of something greater than themselves. [read more]

Science FictionYoung AdultSpace OperaStar Wars

(The Interdependency #1)

Hugo Award nominee 2018. The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War. Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(The Embraced #1)

Luciana grew up on the Isle of Moon, hidden away because of her magical powers. But when her father arrives, he offers her a choice: remain on the island or return with him and marry the Beast of Benwick in order to save their legacy — and her father's life. Lord Leofric, the Beast of Benwick, has not been touched since he was a child. Born with the power to harness lightning, he is a danger to everyone he touches. When he meets his betrothed, he expects a loveless, lonely marriage... until ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal Romance

(The Bone Witch #1)

The beast raged; it punctured the air with its spite. But the girl was fiercer. Tea is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy makes her a bone witch, who are feared and ostracized in the kingdom. For theirs is a powerful, elemental magic that can reach beyond the boundaries of the living — and of the human. Great power comes at a price, forcing Tea to leave her homeland to train under the guidance of an older, wiser bone witch. There, Tea puts all of her ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultWitches

(The Zero Enigma #1)

Caitlyn Aguirre should have been a magician. Her family certainly expected her to be a magician. But by the time she reached her twelfth birthday, Caitlyn hadn't even managed to cast a single spell! In desperation, her parents send her - and her magical sisters - to Jude’s Sorcerous Academy, her last best chance to discover her powers. But as she struggles to survive her classes without a single spell to her name, Caitlyn starts to uncover an ancient mystery that may prove the key to her true powers... ...If she lives long enough to find it. [read more]

Fantasy

(Fablehaven Adventures: Dragonwatch #1)

In the long-awaited sequel to Fablehaven, the dragons who have been kept at the dragon sanctuaries no longer consider them safe havens, but prisons and they want their freedom. The dragons are no longer our allies... In the hidden dragon sanctuary of Wyrmroost, Celebrant the Just, King of the Dragons, plots his revenge. He has long seen the sanctuaries as prisons, and he wants nothing more than to overthrow his captors and return the world to the Age of Dragons, when he and his kind ruled and ... [read more]

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(Alpha Girl #6)

Meredith Molloney never thought she’d find a mate, let alone someone like Donovan Murry — one of the most powerful Alphas alive. Now that she’s no longer cursed and the evil Luciana Alvarez has been taken care of, she thinks life will finally settle down. Boy, has she never been so wrong. In the middle of the night, Donovan gets a call telling him that his pack has gone to pieces. The news that his second in command has been found brutally murdered has Donovan packing his bags for ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceYoung AdultParanormal RomanceUrban Fantasy

(Micah Grey #3)

Masquerade is the third and final novel in Laura Lam's Micah Grey trilogy, following Pantomime and Shadowplay. The gifted hide their talents, but dare they step into the light? Micah's Chimaera powers are growing, until his dark visions overwhelm him. Drystan is forced to take him to Dr Pozzi, to save his life. But can they really trust the doctor, especially when a close friend is revealed to be his spy? Meanwhile, violent unrest is sweeping the country, as anti-royalist factions fight to ... [read more]

Science FictionYoung Adult

A girl with a secret talent must save her village from the encroaching darkness in this haunting and deeply satisfying tale. Alys was seven when the soul eaters came to her village. These soul eaters, twin sisters who were abandoned by their father and slowly morphed into something not quite human, devour human souls. Alys, and all the other children, were spared — and they were sent to live in a neighboring village. There the devout people created a strict world where good and evil are as ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultDark Fantasy

(The Sunsurge Quartet #1)

Desperate for the next Game of Thrones? Pick up Empress of the Fall for your full-on fix of epic fantasy drama and adventure, politicking and romance, blood and guts and power struggles. The Emperor is dead - long live the Empress! Emperor Constant is dead and his rivals are scrabbling for power - but any misstep could plunge the land, already devastated by the shocking outcome of the Third Crusade, into a calamitous civil war. The Imperial throne is not the only one in jeopardy. Two ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Foreigner Universe #18)

The eighteenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for human, the ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(Warriors: A Vision of Shadows #3)

Erin Hunter’s #1 bestselling Warriors series continues! Discover more epic adventures in the third book in this sixth action-packed story arc. Each hardcover also includes a double-sided jacket with a bonus poster! ShadowClan has fallen. A group of rogues now rules the pine forest territory, and their cruel leader, Darktail, intends to conquer the rest of the Clans one by one. Alderheart is more certain than ever that their only hope is to fulfill StarClan’s prophecy. They must find ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultCatsAnimal Fantasy

(Bobiverse #2)

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for 40 years now, looking for habitable planets. But that's the only part of the plan that's still in one piece. A system-wide war has killed off 99.9% of the human race; nuclear winter is slowly making the Earth ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace OperaArtificial Intelligence

(From Darkest Skies #1)

A high-concept science fiction thriller wrapped around a love story, a man’s search for the truth about his dead wife, and his relationship with the artificial intelligence he has built to replace her. After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keona Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife’s personality, a ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(The Innsmouth Legacy #1)

The last daughter of Innsmouth returns to Miskatonic University in Winter Tide, the debut novel by Ruthanna Emrys Two decades ago the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to a desert prison, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god, Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, emerging without a past or a future. Now it's 1949, and the government that stole Aphra's life needs her help. FBI Agent Ron Spector believes that ... [read more]

HorrorCthulhu

John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on the moon, a society that is flawed by love and sex, and on the brink of a destructive civil war. In the middle of the twenty-second century, over three million people live in underground cities below the moon’s surface. One city-state, the Society of Cousins, is matriarchy, where men are supported in any career choice, and can have all the sex they want, but no right ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(The Water Dragon's Bride #1)

A modern-day girl gets whisked away to a strange land where she is sacrificed to a water dragon god! In the blink of an eye, a modern-day girl named Asahi is whisked away from her warm and happy home and stranded in a strange and mysterious world where she is sacrificed to a water dragon god! What plans are in store for her, and what will happen when she comes face to face with this god? A young boy named Subaru comes to Asahi’s aid, but despite his help, Asahi must endure a test of survival! Will she be able to make it out alive, or will she end up being sacrificed?  [read more]

FantasyRomanceYoung AdultParanormal RomanceHistorical Fiction

(Alien Mate #1)

Falsely convicted. Exiled. Claimed by an alien barbarian. After she’s falsely convicted of murder, Starr Elizabeth Conner is packed on a spaceship with other female felons and exiled to Dakon, a faraway frozen planet. To make a bad situation worse, she’s supposed to become an alien’s “mail-order bride.” By the luck of the draw, she’s matched to Torg, the super tall, handsome tribe chief. She doesn’t look like the other females who are dark, beautiful, and exotic, and she can tell ... [read more]

Science FictionRomanceAdultAlien Romance

(Caveman Aliens #1)

Being abducted by aliens was never on my bucket list.But I guess the aliens didn't get that memo, because one night I was beamed aboard a UFO. It dumped me and a bunch of other girls on an alien planet.A jurassic planet where giant, murderous dinosaurs walk around and everything wants to kill me.My only hope of surviving is the first man I met here. His name is Jax'zan, and he's an alien.And a caveman. As in, the hottest super-alpha caveman who ever lived. He's big and strong and doesn't talk ... [read more]

Science FictionRomanceAlien RomanceAbduction

(Fairy Tale Heat #1)

Maybe I was the girl Clara didn’t want me to be. Here I was with the goblin king, and I didn’t want him to stop. For the past 10 years, the Goblin King has stayed locked away in his caverns. He only opens his doors for one purpose: He will give one gold coin for every night a girl is willing to spend with him. Despite his fearsome reputation, his fangs, and his claws, the girls come back safe and sound, and they never say a word about it. One must be very desperate to accept such an ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceAdultParanormal Fantasy