Risingshadow: January 2015 Edition

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Heritage of Cyador was published by Tor Books (UK website/US website) in November 2014. 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]

Rhys A. Jones' The Beast of Seabourne was published by Spencer Hill Press in October 2014. Information about Rhys A. Jones: You want to know? Really? Okay, okay, here’s the bio. Rhys A Jones preferred. Rhys A Jones was born in 1955 and grew up in a mining village in South Wales with his nose in a book and his head in the clouds. He managed to subdue his imagination long enough to carve out a career in medicine, writing whenever the chance arose. In 1994, writing as Dylan Jones, he ... [read more]

Rhys A. Jones' The Obsidian Pebble was published in 2011 and it was republished by Spencer Hill Press in 2013. Information about Rhys A. Jones: You want to know? Really? Okay, okay, here’s the bio. Rhys A Jones preferred. Rhys A Jones was born in 1955 and grew up in a mining village in South Wales with his nose in a book and his head in the clouds. He managed to subdue his imagination long enough to carve out a career in medicine, writing whenever the chance arose. In 1994, writing ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Karen Dudley. Karen Dudley is the author of Food for the Gods and its sequel, Kraken Bake. Information about the author in her own words (from the author's official website): "I am tweaker of words, a procrastinator of work, a scribbler of novels, and a maker of gourmet meals. I am also a mum, which is more work than all of the above put together. Great perqs though! My checkered past includes field biology, production art, photo ... [read more]

Shana Festa's Time of Death: Asylum was published by Permuted Press in December 2014. Information about Shana Festa: Shana Festa was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 17, 1976 and grew up in Northboro, Massachusetts. She currently lives in Cape Coral, Florida with her husband and two dogs, Daphne & Casey. Shana is a registered nurse with clinical experience in mental health, geriatrics, HIV and substance abuse. In addition to her clinical background, Shana possesses over 15 years of ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing the science fiction author James Lovegrove. James Lovegrove published his first novel at the age of 24 and has since had more than 40 books out, including The Hope, Escardy Gap (co-written with Peter Crowther), Days, The Foreigners, How The Other Half Lives, Untied Kingdom, Imagined Slights, Worldstorm, Gig and Provender Gleed. His short fiction has appeared in magazines as diverse as Interzone and Nature and in numerous anthologies. He has ... [read more]

The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal by David Barker and W. H. Pugmire was published by Dark Renaissance Books in June 2014. Information about the authors: David Barker has been a hardcore Lovecraft fan since his college days. He began writing short horror fiction in the mid-1980s, publishing widely in that era's small-press magazines, and edited three of his own Lovecraftian journals before leaving the field in the '90s to focus on literary fiction and poetry. In 2011, his comic surreal novel, ... [read more]

Daniel Mills' The Lord Came at Twilight was published by Dark Renaissance Books in 2014. Information about Daniel Mills: Daniel Mills is an author of weird/horror fiction set in his native New England. Revenants, his first novel, was published in February, 2011 by Chomu Press and later selected by Booklist as one of the Top 10 Historical Novels of 2011. His short fiction has appeared in various anthologies including Delicate Toxins (Side Real Press, 2011), Dadaoism (Chomu Press, 2012), and ... [read more]

DC Farmer's The 400lb Gorilla was published by Spence City in June 2014. Information about DC Farmer: Once a successful doctor of medicine, DC Farmer now works two days a week for the NHS and, thanks to the wonders of Krudian physics, the other nine days a week for Hipposync Enterprises, as a scribe. Hipposync was established in the early fourteenth century as a purveyor and publisher of rare books, the sort of stuff you are not able to get elsewhere and which contains information as ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Seth Skorkowsky. This guest post is part of Ragnarok Holiday Grand Tour (Ragnarok Publications). Seth Skorkowsky is the author of the fantasy novel Dämoren (Book 1 of the Valducan series). Click here to visit the author's official website. Information about Dämoren: 'IN THE SAME VEIN AS SUPERNATURAL, HELLBOY, AND BLADE' A secret society of monster hunters. A holy revolver forged to eradicate demons. A possessed man with a ... [read more]

Robert Shearman's They Do the Same Things Different There was published by ChiZine Publications in September 2014. Information about Robert Shearman: Robert Shearman has worked as writer for television, radio and the stage. He was appointed resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and has received several international awards for his theatrical work, including the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the World Drama Trust Award and the Guinness Award for Ingenuity in Association with ... [read more]

(Wings of Fire #6)

The NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series soars to even greater heights with a new prophecy and five new dragonets ready to claim their destiny! The war is over. The false prophecy has been fulfilled. But the dragonets still have enemies. A dark evil, buried for centuries, is stirring. And a young NightWing may have had the first true prophecy in generations... Something is coming to shake the earthSomething is coming to scorch the groundJade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and iceUnless ... [read more]

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(The Pillars of Reality #1)

For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, ... [read more]

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(A Shade of Vampire #8)

I never could have imagined that Derek and I would willingly turn back into vampires.But there are some things in life that you just can't predict. Like the strange human disappearances that had started happening on the coasts surrounding us.There would have been nothing mysterious about these kidnappings so close to our own turf, had The Shade's vampires not given up drinking human blood almost two decades ago... [read more]

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(The Inheritance Trilogy)

A novella. The long awaited sequel to the Inheritance trilogy - a novella by award winning author N. K. Jemisin where a godling must struggle to grow in the shadow of her parents. SOME TRUTHS MUST BE LEARNED THE HARD WAY... As the first new godling born in thousands of years - and the heir presumptive to Sieh the Trickster - Shill's got big shoes to fill. She's well on her way when she defies her parents and sneaks off to the mortal realm, which is no place for an impressionable young god. ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(Millennium Snow #4)

Romance blossoms between a handsome young vampire and an ailing teenage girl. Will they spend the millennium together? Seventeen-year-old Chiyuki Matsuoka was born with heart problems, and her doctors say she won't live to see the next snow. Toya is an 18-year-old vampire who hates blood and refuses to make the traditional partnership with a human, whose life-giving blood would keep them both alive for a thousand years.Toya still hasn’t agreed to make Chiyuki his partner, but while his ... [read more]

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(Afterlife Saga #5)

After finding out the traumatic truth, Keira tries to move on from the doors of Afterlife and the love lost through a world of pain. But Afterlife’s King isn’t yet done with her and Keira once again finds herself stood opposite the man who broke her heart. However the truth that she thought she knew would soon unravel and Keira finds herself following the ribbon of lies all the way to the very gates of Hell. And as Keira knows more than most, the pursuit of truth can be a dangerous game ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceVampires

(Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries #5)

In the latest Haunted Home Renovation mystery from New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell, San Francisco contractor — and reluctant ghostbuster — Mel Turner gets hired for a job that's to die for. Lately, Mel has been worried about finding enough historic renovation work to pay the bills. But while Turner Construction is in need of a project, Mel’s boyfriend, Graham, has his hands full managing the reconstruction of an ancient building shipped over from Scotland. With the ... [read more]

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(Paths of Shadow #2)

Join Mug and Meralda as they take to the skies in the long-awaited sequel to All the Paths of Shadow! The airship Intrepid, fitted with Mage Meralda's flying coils and bearing a crew of a hundred and sixty-two souls, sets out to cross the treacherous Great Sea. If the Intrepid survives the voyage, she will be the first craft of the Realms to ever reach the mysterious Hang homeland. But as Meralda soon discovers, storms and sea-serpents are not the greatest perils she must face. ... [read more]

Fantasy

(Warhammer 40,000: Ahriman #2)

Book two in the Ahriman series Ahriman, greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons and architect of the Rubric that laid his Legion low, continues to walk the path towards salvation, or damnation. Searching for a cure for his Legion, he is forced to consider – was the great ritual somehow flawed from the very beginning? The answer may lie within the mysterious artefact known as the Athenaeum of Kallimakus, a grimoire of forgotten lore which is reputed to contain the exact words of the lost Book of Magnus... or, perhaps, even a transcription of the primarch’s deepest and most secret thoughts. [read more]

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(Sword Art Online (novels) #3)

Kirito has escaped Sword Art Online, the forbidden VRMMORPG of death, and returned to reality. He heads off to find his game partner and lover, Asuna Yuuki. But Asuna never made it back from the nightmare. Lost and desperate, Kirito's only clue to her virtual whereabouts is a mysterious screenshot of Asuna as a fairy trapped in a giant birdcage. His conclusion: She must be trapped within the new, high-powered VRMMORPG, ALfheim Online. Now Kirito must plunge into the world of ALO, where players are fairies who fly gracefully through the air! [read more]

FantasyScience FictionYoung Adult

(The Fae Chronicles #4)

Less than six months ago my life was twisted and flipped on its side. Things have changed so much I barely recognize myself anymore.I am no longer an Enforcer.I am no longer a Witch.I no longer hate the Fae. (For the most part)And the sex-on-a-stick-gorgeous-Fae? He isn't really the Dark Prince.No, he is the father of my children and with the babies on the way, the land dying and the Mages closing in; alliances will have to be formed if we are all to make it through the war that is coming to our front door.Between warring Gods and Goddesses, how are any of us supposed to win? [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceFairies

(Meteor Prince #1)

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…?  [read more]

FantasyScience FictionRomanceYoung AdultManga

This powerful story is both gripping and beautifully crafted, rich with mythology - perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Children of Blood and Bone. In the old times, all there was were the Necromancers and the Reapers, who have been at war for thousands of years. One, a race that ripped the earth apart, raising whole undead armies. The other, a band of scythe-wielding warriors, intent on destroying their seemingly 'evil' counterparts. Nyx, a young girl born a Necromancer but raised a ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(Haunted Canada #5)

Don’t turn out the lights! Joel Sutherland returns for the frightful fifth installment of the Haunted Canada series. In Nunavut, stories are passed down from generation to generation about the tarriassuit, shadow people who are sometimes felt or heard — but never seen except out of the corner of your eye . . . The organ at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec City plays by itself, and Queen Elizabeth II reportedly saw a mysterious figure on the balcony during her visit in 1964 . . ... [read more]

HorrorNon-fiction

(Dark Star #3)

In the exciting conclusion to the Dark Star trilogy, Audrey Whitticomb is faced with a tough decision: save her people from the demons known as Harrowers, or save her best friend from certain death? Audrey Whitticomb wants to be a Guardian like her superhero mom, Morning Star, and her superhot boyfriend, Leon. But at seventeen, Audrey still hasn't been called - unlike reluctant Tink, who'd rather not deal with all those scaly-skinned, red-eyed demons. The truth: Audrey can no ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

Witches, stalkers, a forbidden soul mate — even her guardian angel might have trouble saving Cara in this thrilling Swoon Reads romance! Something strange is going on in the tiny coastal town of Liberty, Oregon. Cara has never seen a whale swim close enough for her to touch it — let alone knock her into the freezing water. Fortunately, cute newcomer David is there to save her, and the rescue leads to a bond deeper than Cara ever imagined. But then she learns something about ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceYoung AdultParanormal Romance

(Alice in the Country of Clover)

A new Alice oneshot that focuses on her romance with one-time assassin Gray Ringmarc Former assassin Gray Ringmarc serves his master Nighmare in the Tower of Clover. Known for his mature personality and kindness to animals, Gray also has a dark side. When Alice is whisked off by an adversary, Gray's inner darkness emerges in a fit of jealousy. Now there will be hell to pay. Can Alice tame his reptilian heart? [read more]

FantasyRomanceManga

(Zombie Apocalypse #2)

Second in the Zombie Apocalypse series of YA paranormal novels. In the bloody awesome tradition of The Walking Dead and Kick Ass, Adam Gallardo has created a world where teens must battle zombies - and a high school senior named Courtney is dead set on getting out of the suburbs before the undead get her first. [read more]

Young AdultHorror

(Lost Library #3)

When wolves fight...What will the neighbors think? After an adventurous trip to Europe, Lizzie and John return home hoping for a little R & R. What they find is no rest at all. Lizzie's got a death threat on her pillow, and John is faced with a pack challenge in their backyard. Soon Lizzie and John find themselves fighting for their lives. But who's masterminding the attacks? Is it Lizzie's old arch-rival Worth? Or does an even greater threat wait for the couple? [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceUrban FantasyParanormal Fantasy

(Legends of the Realm #1)

In a world where magic has been outlawed for centuries, one young man discovers that he possesses powers beyond his wildest dreams. But he does not realize how pivotal this gift will be in the days to come. Except for the healing arts, magicking is a punishable offense in the realm. The only places it is still practiced are the Long Halls scattered throughout the land – isolated haunts of wizards called mages and their long-suffering students. But hidden rivers of power course ... [read more]

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