Risingshadow: July 2015 Edition

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Paul Kane. Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of over fifty books – including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts and The Mammoth Book of Body Horror. His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Paul Kane. Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of over fifty books – including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts and The Mammoth Book of Body Horror. His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Lauren Roy. Lauren M. Roy spends her days selling books to bookstores, and her nights scratching out stories of her own. She is also a freelance writer for tabletop roleplaying games. Lauren lives in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband, their cats, and the ghosts of houseplants she forgets to water. Her first novel, Night Owls, was published by Ace in February 2014. The Fire Children was published by Ravenstone Press in June ... [read more]

Sanem Ozdural's The Dark Shall Do What Light Cannot was published by Elsewhen Press as e-book in April 2015. The paperback edition will be published in July 2015. Information about Sanem Ozdural: Sanem Ozdural was born in Ankara, Turkey in the 70s, and spent her childhood from age seven onwards in England.  Happy days at a quintessentially British boarding school in Surrey helped forge her character and tastes, not to mention lasting friendships.  Making her way to the U.S. she studied ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by J. Kathleen Cheney. J. Kathleen Cheney is a former teacher and has taught mathematics ranging from 7th grade to Calculus, with a brief stint as a Gifted and Talented Specialist.  Her short fiction has been published in Jim Baen's Universe, Writers of the Future, and Fantasy Magazine, among others, and her novella "Iron Shoes" was a 2010 Nebula Award Finalist.  Her novel, "The Golden City" was a Finalist for the 2014 Locus Awards (Best ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Brian Kirk. Brian Kirk lives in Atlanta with his beautiful wife and rambunctious identical twin boys. He works as a freelance writer in addition to writing fiction, and is currently working on the second book in a planned trilogy. We Are Monsters is his debut release. Feel free to connect with him online. Don't worry, he only kills his characters. We Are Monsters will be published on July 7th, 2015. Links - Website: briankirkblog.com/- ... [read more]

Ira Nayman's Random Dingoes was published by Elsewhen Press as e-book in April 2015. The paperback edition will be published in August 2015. Information about Ira Nayman: Ira Nayman once shot a man in 3-D to watch him dye. Okay, okay, Ira Nayman is the author of three novels; he has also self-published five collections of Alternate Reality News Service (ARNS) articles in print. "The Weight of Information," the pilot for a radio series based on ARNS articles, can be found on YouTube. He ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Gail Z. Martin about her forthcoming steampunk novel Iron & Blood (co-written by Larry N. Martin). This novel will be published by Solaris Books in July 2015. Gail Z. Martin writes epic fantasy, urban fantasy and steampunk for Solaris Books and Orbit Books. In addition to Iron and Blood, she is the author of Deadly Curiosities and the upcoming Vendetta in her urban fantasy series;The Chronicles of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The Blood ... [read more]

Justyna Plichta-Jendzio's Damned Children of Naor was published by Devine Destinies in June 2015. Information about Justyna Plichta-Jendzio: Justyna Plichta-Jendzio was born in Koszalin (Poland) in 1974, and still resides near there. Married for sixteen years, she is the mother of one son and the happy owner of two spoiled cats. Justyna was lucky to live at the crossroads of two ages, communism and capitalism. When she was fifteen, communism fell in Poland. That time allowed her to see ... [read more]

Bradley P. Beaulieu's Twelve Kings in Sharakhai (the first novel of The Song of the Shattered Sands) will be published by Daw Books and Gollancz in September 2015 (UK edition is called Twelve Kings). Information about Bradley P. Beaulieu: Bradley P. Beaulieu began writing his first fantasy novel in college, but in the way of these things, it was set aside as life intervened. As time went on, though, Brad realized that his love of writing and telling tales wasn't going to just slink quietly ... [read more]

David Rix's What the Giants Were Saying was published by Eibonvale Press in 2008. Information about David Rix: David Rix, was born in England in 1978. He has had a lifelong fascination with horror and the surreal and has been a dedicated reader and collector of books for several years. In 2004 his first story was published in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology Strange Tales from Tartarus Press. Links Author's official website Author's blog Information about What the Giants ... [read more]

Sarah Pinborough's Beauty was published by Titan Books in May 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 under ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing John Helfers. John Helfers is an author and editor currently living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. During his eighteen years working for Martin H. Greenberg at Tekno Books, he edited more than twenty short story anthologies for DAW and oversaw the production of more than two hundred others for other publishers in all genres. He has also worked with well-known authors and co-editors such as Lawrence Block, Charlaine Harris, John Jakes, Anne Perry, ... [read more]

James P. Blaylock's Beneath London was published by Titan Books in June 2015. Information about James P. Blaylock: James P. Blaylock was born in Long Beach, California in 1950, and attended California State University, where he received an MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with his contemporaries K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded ­– along with Powers and Jeter – as one of the founding fathers of the steampunk movement. Winner of two World Fantasy ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by John R. Fultz. John R. Fultz lives in the North Bay Area of California but grew up in Kentucky. John's Books of the Shaper trilogy includes Seven Princes, Seven Kings, and Seven Sorcerers (Orbit Books). His short story collection, The Revelations of Zang, is a series of interrelated tales born in the pages of Wierd Tales and Black Gate. John's work has also appeared in Year's Best Weird Fiction (Vol. 1), That Is Not Dead, Shattered ... [read more]

Peter V. Brett's The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold will be published by Tachyon Publications in July 2015. (This collection was originally published in 2011.) Information about Peter V. Brett: Peter V. Brett is the bestselling author of The Demon Cycle, which includes The Warded Man (first published as The Painted Man in the U.K. by Del Rey Books), The Desert Spear, The Daylight War and The Skull Throne. The final book in the series, The Core, is expected in 2017. In addition to the quintet, ... [read more]

Nina Allan's A Thread of Truth was published by Eibonvale Press in 2007. Information about Nina Allan: Nina Allan is a British author. She is the author of A Thread of Truth, Microcosmos, The Silver Wind, Spin, Stardust and The Race. Her stories have appeared in British speculative fiction magazines Interzone, Black Static and Crimewave, and have featured in the anthologies Best Horror of the Year #2, The Year's Best SF #28 and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012 and 2013.  Her ... [read more]

(Wings of Fire #7)

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! Daring mission... or deadly mistake? Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more, Winter knows that they both need a second chance to make things right - if only he can find ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultDragons

(The Paranormal Casebooks of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #2)

1895. Victorian England trembles on the verge of hysteria in Vaughn Entwistle's The Dead Assassin. Terrorist bombs are detonating around the Capitol and every foreigner is suspected of being an Anarchist lurking beneath a cape. Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a gruesome crime that has baffled and outraged Scotland Yard's best. A senior member of Her Majesty's government has been brutally murdered, and the body of his attacker lies close by — riddled with ... [read more]

FantasyMystery

(Amra Thetys #4)

Bellarius, saved from utter destruction, is now plunged into vicious civil war. Amra has vanished, and while Holgren has a plan to find her and bring her back, the plan teeters between impossibility and insanity. But before he can even implement his plan, Holgren will have to deal with three separate armies vying for control of Bellaria, who view him as a threat, an inconvenience, or a potential tool. He'll have to trap and break to his will one of the monstrous rift-spawn, abominations born ... [read more]

FantasySword and Sorcery

(Alice in the Country of Hearts)

SO MANY MEN, SO LITTLE TIME! Alice has more than a few handsome suitors in Wonderland..and in this spicy collection, she lands more than one! Whether it's Boris, Ace, or all of Hatter Mansion in a tub, Alice has her work cut out for her-these men aren't easy to love. But after adjusting to the wild ways of their world, she's finding room in her heart for a special someone. Could it be Pierce, Grey...or even Joker? In this fan-friendly mix of stories from multiple series, Alice finds love in Wonderland again and again. [read more]

FantasyRomanceMangaReverse Harem

(A Shade of Vampire #14)

The people of The Shade are no strangers to storms. But the army of black witches racing toward their shores now is a cyclone unlike any the island has weathered before. Either victory or defeat awaits the Novaks at the end of the night... A new dawn is breaking over The Shade. [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal Romance

(The Clockwork Dagger #2)

Rich in atmosphere, imagination, and fun, the action-packed, magic-filled sequel to The Clockwork Dagger is an enchanting steampunk fantasy, evocative of the works of Trudi Canavan and Gail Carriger. Narrowly surviving assassination and capture, Octavia Leander, a powerful magical healer, is on the run with handsome Alonzo Garrett, the Clockwork Dagger who forfeited his career with the Queen’s secret society of spies and killers — and possibly his life — to save her. Now, they ... [read more]

FantasySteampunk

(Manifest Delusions #1)

A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality... and the fulfillment of humanity’s desires may well prove to be its undoing When belief defines reality, those with the strongest convictions — the crazy, the obsessive, the delusional — have the power to shape the world. And someone is just mad enough to believe he can create a ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh FantasyDark Fantasy

(The Leveller #1)

Nixy Bauer is a self-made Leveller. Her job? Dragging kids out of virtual reality and back to their parents in the real world. It’s normally easy cash, but Nixy’s latest mission is fraught with real danger, intrigue, and romance. Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, she’s a bounty hunter in a virtual reality gaming world. Kids in the MEEP, as they call it, play entirely with their minds, while their bodies languish in a ... [read more]

Science FictionYoung Adult

(Linesman #1)

First in a brand new thought-provoking science fiction series. The lines. No ship can traverse the void without them. Only linesmen can work with them. But only Ean Lambert hears their song. And everyone thinks he’s crazy... Most slum kids never go far, certainly not becoming a level-ten linesman like Ean. Even if he’s part of a small, and unethical, cartel, and the other linesmen disdain his self-taught methods, he’s certified and working. Then a mysterious alien ship is ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(Dark in You #1)

Part of a small demon lair in North Las Vegas, tattooist Harper Wallis lives a pretty simple life. That changes overnight when she discovers that her psychic mate, or ‘anchor’, is a guy who’s rumored to be the most powerful demon in existence. Compelling, full of secrets and armed with raw sexuality, Knox Thorne is determined to claim her as his anchor, creating a psychic bond that will prevent their inner demons from ever turning rogue. The billionaire also wants Harper in his bed. ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal Romance

(Keeper of the Lost Cities #3)

Sophie uncovers shocking secrets — and faces treacherous new enemies — in this electrifying third book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster is ready to fight back. Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers — before they come after her again. But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war, and causes many to fear that she has finally gone ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

(Time Salvager #1)

A fast-paced time travel adventure from the award-winning author of of The Lives of Tao In a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has spread into the outer solar system to survive, the tightly controlled use of time travel holds the key maintaining a fragile existence among the other planets and their moons. James Griffin-Mars is a chronman — a convicted criminal recruited for his unique psychological makeup to undertake the most dangerous job there is: ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(The Watchmaker of Filigree Street #1)

An enchanting new literary historical fantasy with the spark and wit of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street plunges readers into a magical past. In 1884, Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his London apartment to find a new watch on his pillow. But he has bigger things to worry about than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, where he has just received a bomb threat. Six months later, the watch saves his life, warning him of a blast that ... [read more]

FantasyHistorical Fiction19th century

(Afterlife Saga #6)

As Keira and Draven reunite, it is but a bitter sweet moment as it is time they must put their loyalty on the line in the ultimate test of trust in order to seek the truth. But making it through the gates of Hell and back in one piece isn’t something they can expect or take lightly. As for one of our destined lovers, a fight for the other’s survival is something they will have to face alone. Will Draven release Hell on Earth for the sake of the woman he loves or let her go? Is one love ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceVampires

(The Demon Prince of Momochi House #1)

On her sixteenth birthday, orphan Himari Momochi inherits her ancestral estate that she's never seen. Momochi House exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms, and Himari is meant to act as guardian between the two worlds. But on the day she moves in, she finds three handsome squatters already living in the house, and one seems to have already taken over her role! [read more]

FantasyRomanceYoung AdultMangaYōkai

A compelling story of alien contact, mystery, and murder:  "Intellectually daring, brilliantly imagined, strongly felt. This one's a winner." — Ursula K. Le Guin Reports of a strange new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this new world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crew-mate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Craft Sequence #4)

The fourth novel set in the compellingly modern fantasy world of the Craft Sequence  Forty years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears the scars of liberation — especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, demons will be loosed upon the city. The King in Red hires Elayne Kevarian of the Craft firm Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao to fix the wards, but the Skittersill's ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(Elemental Assassin #13)

The next thrilling book in Jennifer Estep’s New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Elemental Assassin series — “an extraordinary series... One of the most intriguing heroines in the genre” (Romantic Times Book Reviews). Keep your friends close but your enemies within stabbing distance. One important lesson I’ve learned in the assassination business is that to be the best you have to roll with the punches. Now that I’m queen of Ashland’s underworld — by default, not by ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(The Chronicles of Alice #1)

A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll... In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood... Then, one night, a ... [read more]

Fantasy

(The Valhalla Saga #3)

The blood-soaked conclusion to Snorri Kristjansson's Valhalla Saga sees the final showdown between the followers of the Old Gods and those of the White Christ In this raucous fantasy epic set at during the era when the Vikings fearlessly sailed the world's seas, mead flowed freely, and Gods walked the earth, companions Audun Arngrimsson and Ulfar Thormodsson are reunited after separate journeys of self-discovery. In Trondheim, King Olav, self-appointed champion of the White ... [read more]

FantasyHistorical Fiction