Risingshadow: January 2017 Edition

Karen Azinger's Power Writing: Make Your Genre Fiction Soar was published by Kiralynn Epics in November 2016. Information about Karen Azinger: Karen L. Azinger has always loved fantasy fiction, and always hoped that someday she could give back to the genre a little of the joy that reading has always given her. Twelve years ago on a hike in the Columbia River Gorge she realized she had enough original ideas to finally write an epic fantasy. She started writing and never stopped. The Steel ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post Jonathan Maas. Jonathan Maas is a writer living in Los Angeles. He has written four books: City of gods - Hellenica, Spanners: The Fountain of Youth, Flare, The Dog That Laid Eggs, and Dion, each one of which has cover illustration by the extraordinarily talented Manthos Lappas. Jonathan Maas has also directed an independent movie, Spanners, which is the prequel to the book. Click here to visit the author's official website. Click here to visit the author's Amazon page. GUEST POST: Jonathan Maas's Best Books of 2016 by Jonathan Maas [read more]

Tim Major's You Don't Belong Here was published by Snowbooks in September 2016. Information about Tim Major: Tim Major lives in Oxford in the UK with his wife and two young sons. His love of speculative fiction is the product of a childhood diet of classic Doctor Who episodes and an early encounter with Triffids. Tim’s time-travel novel, You Don’t Belong Here, was published by Snowbooks in September 2016. He has also released two novellas, Blighters (Abaddon) and Carus & Mitch (Omnium ... [read more]

Laird Barron's Swift to Chase was published by JournalStone in October 2016. Information about Laird Barron: Born in Alaska, Barron raised huskies and worked in the construction and fishing industries for much of his youth. He moved to the Pacific Northwest during the mid-1990s and dedicated himself to writing. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence, was published in 2007, followed by two more collections and a pair of novels. A multiple Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker award nominee, ... [read more]

Brhel and Sullivan's At the Cemetery Gates: Year One was published by Cemetery Gates Media in October 2016. Information about the publisher: Cemetery Gates Media is a horror-fantasy fiction publisher from Binghamton, N.Y., founded by long-time friends John Brhel and J. Sullivan. cemeterygatesmedia.tumblr.com facebook.com/cemeterygatesmedia twitter.com/cemeterygatesm Information about the authors: John Brhel is a horror writer from upstate New York. His work has appeared in "The ... [read more]

  [author_8950] [book_51181_quote_right] A REVIEW OF OLIVER LANGMEAD'S METRONOME [read more]

Marc Joan's The Speckled God will be published by Unsung Stories in February 2017. Information about Marc Joan: Marc Joan spent the early part of his life in Asia and Europe, and the early part of his career in biomedical research. His short stories have been published in Hypnos, Madcap Review, Danse Macabre, The Apeiron Review, STORGY, Bohemyth, Literary Orphans, Smokelong Quarterly, Bookends Review, Sein und Werden and Structo. He lives in England with his family. Click here to visit his ... [read more]

Tanya Reimer's Legends on the Prairies was published by Elsewhen Press in August 2016 (digital edition) and November 2016 (paperback). Information about Tanya Reimer: Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Tanya enjoys using the tranquil prairies as a setting to her not-so-peaceful speculative fiction. She is married with two children which means among her accomplishments are the necessary magical abilities to find a lost tooth in a park of sand and whisper away monsters from under the bed. As ... [read more]

M. Rhys Bail's Necromancer will be published by Stupid Stupid Games Ltd in December 2016. Information about Necromancer: For Joe Cooper, Hell's only professional necromancer on earth, business is about to get even worse. When his dead father calls him long-distance and warns him of the coming storm, he knows he is facing trouble of the worst kind. And then his employer comes knocking... Necromancer is the first novel set in the Agents of Armageddon RPG universe, created by Stupid Stupid ... [read more]

Rab Ferguson's The Dancer was published by Unsung Stories in December 2016. Information about Rab Ferguson: Rab Ferguson is a York based writer of fiction and poetry. He's been published in several journals including Litro Magazine, Storgy, Voice-In Journal, Under the Fable and The City Fox. He's also a performing storyteller, and has been known to wear a woollen cape. Click here to visit his official website. Information about The Dancer: Penelope D’Silva is a dancer, loved ... [read more]

Scott Burn's The Enemy Within was published in July 2016. Information about Scott Burn: Scott Burn is a former lawyer turned writer. He is the creator of the science fiction comic book series AGON and has sold several feature screenplays as well. The Enemy Within is his first novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Sarah, three step children and two toe-nibbling cats. He loves that LA offers biking, hiking, surfing and skiing all relatively close by. He doesn't do any of those things, ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Conrad Williams. This blog post is part of the Hell is Empty Blog Tour. Conrad Williams has written seven novels, four novellas and a short story collection. One won the August Derleth award for Best Novel in 2010, while The Unblemished won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel in 2007 (he beat the shortlisted Stephen King on both occasions). He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer in 1993, and another British ... [read more]

Suzanne Johnson's Belle Chasse was published by Tor Books (US|UK|Tor.com) in November 2016. Information about Suzanne Johnson: Suzanne Johnson lives in Auburn, Alabama. A veteran journalist with more than fifty national awards for writing and editing nonfiction, she is also Susannah Sandlin. As Sandlin, Johnson has won two Holt Awards (for paranormal romance and romantic suspense) and been a two-time finalist for the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award. She is the author of the urban ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing M. L. Williams. M. L. Williams is an award-winning ex-journalist. He retired after 39 years of battling deadlines to venture into the world of science fiction. Williams lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He spends his time reading, writing and enjoying his role as Grandpa. He has written two novels: Seers of Verde: The Legend Fulfilled and its sequel, Return of the Earthers. Click here to visit his official website. AN INTERVIEW WITH M. L. WILLIAMS [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Jon Del Arroz. Jon Del Arroz began his writing career in high school, providing book reviews and the occasional article for the local news magazine, The Valley Citizen. From there, he went on to write a weekly web comic, Flying Sparks, which has been hailed by Comic Book Resources as “the kind of stuff that made me fall in love with early Marvel comics.” He has several published short stories, most recently providing flash fiction ... [read more]

(Wings of Fire #9)

The New York Times and USA Today 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 the lost city of night can be found.Don't miss the next chapter in the epic, bestselling Wings of Fire series! [read more]

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(The Runic Series #2)

Runic Revelation is the second book in the Runic series, a contemporary epic fantasy series set in the world of Doma, where magical engineers called Runics rule the land. They are equaled in power only by Weavers, men and women that can manipulate the very fabric of the universe with their wills.  A week has passed since the Empire was nearly destroyed by the dark god Xanos. Now the leader of the most powerful government in the world, Kalibar must protect his people against Xanos’s undead ... [read more]

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(Sigma Force #12)

If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened - could they happen again - on a global scale? Two years after vanishing into the Sudanese desert, the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, comes stumbling out of the sands, frantic and delirious, but he dies before he can tell his story. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor's body - while he was still alive. His strange remains are ... [read more]

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(Pegasus #6)

Emily and Pegasus face their greatest challenge yet when they venture back to Earth to save a friend in this sixth and final book of an exciting series that puts a modern thrill into ancient mythology. After the events in Hawaii, Emily is contending with diminished powers, a new body, and the fact that she has to teach the Titan Lorin how to use her own powers. To make matters worse, Joel has been acting strangely towards her ever since she changed, and it’s all become too much. However, ... [read more]

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Scream Quietly: The Best of Charles L. Grant brings together more than thirty atmospheric and often poignant stories and novellas by one of the most talented genre writers of his generation. Selected by his friend and colleague Stephen Jones, these tales of science fiction, fantasy and the author s unique style of quiet horror which he cultivated in his many novels, collections and anthologies showcase some of the finest work published by Grant during his nearly forty-year career as a writer. ... [read more]

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(Pathfinder Tales)

Having unseated Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder is the world's bestselling tabletop roleplaying game-now adapted as a series of novels Daryus Gaunt used to be a crusader, before a questionable battlefield decision forced him to desert his unit. Pathfinder Shiera Tristane is an adventuring scholar obsessed with gaining the recognition she feels was stolen from her. When both are contacted by a sinister talking weasel and warned of a witch about to release a magical threat long trapped ... [read more]

Fantasy

(Ascendant #2)

Koren Bladewell's future was stolen from him, by wizards who chose to lie, to conceal the fact that Koren is a wizard. Crown princess Ariana Trehayme must find a way to become queen before her sixteenth birthday; before her indecisive mother allows all of Tarador to be conquered. [read more]

Fantasy

(Urban Wolf)

A novella. Paige went to Romania looking for inspiration for a book. She found herself caught in a horror story. Attacked and left for dead by a vampire, Paige finds herself at the mercy of Kata, a beautiful, enigmatic werewolf. Their attraction is instant, but Paige's fate hangs in the balance. She may yet be turned into a vampire herself. Soon it's clear to Paige that the only way to save herself may be to return to the woman who attacked her... even if it means placing both herself and Kata in the greatest danger.  [read more]

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(The Keystone Bone Trilogy #1)

Which is worth more: the life of your unborn child or that of your sister? Start the epic fantasy today! Life has never been easy on Aea. Growing up among her fellow Duians in the secluded and protected forest realm of Thaduin, she misses her lost family. But, now pregnant herself, her troubled life seems finally to be turning for the better. However, any Duian leaving the symbiotic shelter of the forest eventually dies of the deadly disease, the Field Blight. That is exactly the risk Aea ... [read more]

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When the end came, it wasn't zombies, asteroids, global warming or nuclear winter. It was something that escaped from a lab. Something small, and very hungry. It starts with deadly rain that delivers death where it falls, but soon the whole planet is under threat as the infection spreads, consuming everything before it. A band of survivors on the Eastern coast of Canada watch as their world falls and crumbles to ruin. The infection seems relentless. More than that, it seems to be learning, ... [read more]

Horror

(British Library Hardback Classics: Gilded Nightmares)

A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots and settings of Poe’s dark, mysterious tales continue to haunt the popular imagination. This new selection introduces the greatest Gothic fiction from one of the most deranged and deliciously weird writers of the 19th century. The tales are accompanied by the classic illustrations of Harry Clarke, an artist fully alive to the deep darkness at the heart of Poe’s writing. [read more]

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(Romance a Medieval Fairytale #1)

  A beastly prince. An enchanting beauty. Only love can break the spell.Once upon a time...The wicked King Thorn forced the enchantress Zuleika to cast a terrible curse. She fled his court to travel the world, helping those who need her magic most. Until a search for her merchant father's lost ships leads her to an enchanted island, where Prince Vardan, the island's ruler, is afflicted by the most powerful curse Zuleika has ever encountered. She's not sure she can reverse the spell, but she's ... [read more]

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(The Witchlands #2)

Sometimes our enemies become our only allies The Windwitch Prince Merik is presumed dead, following a lethal explosion. He's left scarred but alive and determined to expose his sister's treachery. Yet on reaching the royal capital, he's shocked to find it crowded with refugees fleeing conflict. Merik haunts the streets, fighting for the weak. This leads to whispers of a disfigured demigod, the Fury, who brings justice to the oppressed. Hunted by the Cleaved, Iseult is ... [read more]

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A sequel to The War of the Worlds. Authorised by the H.G. Wells Estate. It is the 1930s and the Martians have returned. A superb sequel and a dramatic reimagining of Wells' landmark work of alien invasion takes the action into the 1930s and an even greater horror. Like Sherlock Holmes this a reinterpretation of a classic for a modern audience from the pen of Stephen Baxter, fresh from his collaboration with Terry Pratchett. The Martians do nor repeat the mistakes of their last invasion. ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Romance a Medieval Fairytale #6)

A sleeping beauty. A kingdom frozen in time. Only one can save them all. Once upon a time... Lord Siward intended to go hunting, but when he stumbles upon a ruined castle and accidentally wakes the mysterious maiden sleeping inside, he knows his holiday is over. With the kingdom in trouble, Siward should be protecting the realm, but every time Rosamond looks at him, he gets lost in the girl's green eyes. Who is the mysterious beauty, and why does he feel she holds the key to the kingdom's ... [read more]

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(Mates for Monsters Series #1)

A sexy, sleek-tailed monster. Zantu has evaded the mate-bond for thirty-five years, dodging promiscuous mermaids with vile intents. Unlike mermaids, mermen bond for life, and Zantu refuses to accept the heartbreak most mermen die of. That is, until the glint of gold catches his eye, and a simple salvage mission turns to passion. Now he’s bonded to a human. A woman looking for a reason to live. Briana thinks her life is over after the loss of her child. Instead, she falls into the arms of ... [read more]

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(John Matherson #3)

A major release in the New York Times bestselling series, One Second After, set in an alternate America rebuilding after an electromagnetic pulse. Months before publication, William R. Forstchen’s One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. This third book in the series immerses readers once more in the story of our nation’s struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into ... [read more]

Science Fiction

Poison never lies. Tali was once one of the seven martyrs of the Forgotten Compass. She barely escaped that life with her body and soul intact. Now she has a new life as a poison eater in the city of Enthait. Here she is hailed as one of the city s protectors. No one knows her history; no one has asked about her past. She s been here so long that Enthait is her home now, these are her people. She loves them and they her. But in the Ninth World, the past is a living, breathing thing. And when it hunts you down, you can run. You can fight or you can die. [read more]

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Carys and Max have ninety minutes of air left.None of this was supposed to happen.But, maybe this doesn’t need to be the end... Adrift in space with nothing to cling to but each other, Carys and Max can’t help but look back at the world they have left behind – a place where they never really belonged, and that they might now never return to. In a world where love is banned, what happens when you find it? [read more]

Science Fiction

Stand-alone near future thriller from nationally best-selling author of the Orphan's Legacy saga. A face-off with killers in order to guard a secret that could change humanity forever. LIVE FOREVER — OR DIE TRYING Reclusive San Francisco dock worker Emmanuel Colibri built the world’s most valuable and admired company by making dreams come true, like phones and cars that were smarter than their owners. Now, Silicon Valley rumor has it, he’s about to make the dream that ... [read more]

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