Risingshadow: July 2016 Edition

DC Farmer's Every Little Evil was published by Wyrmwood Books in May 2016. 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]

Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter Coloring Book #1 was published by Dabel Brothers Publishing in March 2016. Information about Sherrilyn Kenyon: New York Times and international bestselling author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, is a regular at the #1 spot. With legions of fans known as Menyons (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. Since 2003, she ... [read more]

Ren Warom's Escapology was published by Titan Books in June 2016. Information about Ren Warom: Ren Warom lives in the West Midlands with her three children, innumerable cats, a very friendly corn snake, and far, far too many books. She haunts Twitter as @RenWarom, and can be found on her YouTube channel talking about mental health issues and, of course, books. Information about Escapology: Shock Pao is not just any Haunt - he's the best. There isn't a system that he can't crack into, no ... [read more]

Toadhouse's Gone Fishing with Samy Rosenstock was published by Snuggly Books in May 2016. 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 Gone Fishing with Samy Rosenstock: Gone Fishing with Samy Rosenstock is a set of extraordinarily brief, side-splitting texts by Toadhouse, the pseudonym of visual artist Allan Graham, which bridge ... [read more]

Edmund Glasby's Death After Death was published by Shadow Publishing in May 2016. Information about Edmund Glasby: As penance for past deeds, Edmund Glasby grew up in Morecambe and studied Egyptian Archaeology at University College London and Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford - Morecambe, which has more than its share of the strange and unsavoury, provided him with a better education. After turning his back on academia, he now writes in the genres of dark fantasy and supernatural ... [read more]

[author_9439] [book_50606_quote_right] A REVIEW OF KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM'S BUTTERFLY DREAM [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Gail Z. Martin. About the author: Gail Z. Martin is the author of The Shadowed Path (Solaris Books), Vendetta: A Deadly Curiosities Novel in her urban fantasy series set in Charleston, SC (Solaris Books); Shadow and Flame the fourth and final book in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga (Orbit Books); and Iron and Blood a new Steampunk series (Solaris Books) co-authored with Larry N. Martin. She is also author of Ice Forged, Reign of Ash and ... [read more]

Daniel Godfrey's New Pompeii will be published by Titan Books in June 2016. Information about Daniel Godfrey:Daniel Godfrey has had several short stories published, including in My Weekly and Writers' Forum, and is a dedicated reader of SF and historical fiction. He studied geography at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and gained an MSc from Leeds in transport planning. He lives in Derbyshire.Click here to visit his official website. Information New Pompeii: Some time in the near future, ... [read more]

Quentin S. Crisp's September was published by Snuggly Books in May 2016. Information about Quentin S. Crisp: Quentin S. Crisp was born in 1972, in North Devon, U.K. He studied Japanese at Durham University and graduated in 2000. He has had fiction published by Tartarus Press, PS Publishing, Eibonvale Press and others. He currently resides in Bexleyheath, and is editor for Chômu Press. His novella Blue on Blue was previously published by Snuggly Books. Information September: "Poetry is ... [read more]

Aliya Whiteley's The Arrival of Missives was published by Unsung Stories in May 2016. Information about Aliya Whiteley: Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit's European Monsters and Lonely Planet's Better than ... [read more]

Patricia A. McKillip's Dreams of Distant Shores was published by Tachyon Publications in June 2016. Information about Patricia A. McKillip: Patricia A. McKillip is the bestselling author of more than thirty much-beloved fantasy novels, including The Riddle-Master of Hed, Harpist in the Wind, and The Sorceress and the Cygnet. She has received the World Fantasy Award for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Ombria in Shadow, and Solstice Wood, for which she also received the Mythopoeic Award. McKillip ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Yoon Ha Lee, who is the author of Ninefox Gambit (Solaris Books, June 2016). Yoon Ha Lee is a writer from Houston, Texas, whose work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He has published over forty short stories, and his critically acclaimed collection Conservation of Shadows was released in 2013. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by ... [read more]

(Wings of Fire: Legends #1)

Three dragons. One unavoidable, unpredictable destiny. This is the beginning... of the end. In the SeaWing kingdom, a young prince learns he is an animus - capable of wonderful magic that comes with a terrible price. In the mind of a NightWing dragonet, a thousand futures unfold - and almost all of them, she knows, lead to disaster and destruction. And under three full moons and the watchful eyes of his NightWing mother and IceWing father, the most powerful dragon Pyrhhia will ever know is ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultDragons

(Green Creek #1)

A Green Creek Novel Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. Ox found out later the boy hadn’t spoken in almost two years before that day, and that the boy belonged to a family who had moved into the house at the end of the lane. Ox was seventeen when he found out the boy’s secret, ... [read more]

FantasyRomance

(Shadow Riders #1)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan returns with a sexy new series starring a Chicago crime family with a mystical secret. Whether it’s fast cars or fast women, Stefano Ferraro gets what he wants. When he’s not fodder for the paparazzi, he commands Ferraro family businesses — both legitimate and illegitimate. But no one knows the real truth. The Ferraros are a family of shadow riders capable of manipulating light and dark, an ability Stefano thought ran in ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal RomanceUrban Fantasy

(Expeditionary Force #2)

The sequel to 'Columbus Day'. Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much. [read more]

Science Fiction

(Remade #1)

Leon and his younger sister, Grace, have recently moved to London from New York and are struggling to settle into their new school when rumours of an unidentified virus in Africa begin to fill the news. Within a week the virus hits London. The siblings witness people turning to liquid before their eyes, and they run for their lives. A month after touching Earth's atmosphere the virus has assimilated the world's biomass. But the virus isn't their only enemy, and survival is just the first step... [read more]

Science FictionYoung AdultHorror

(Brotherband Chronicles #6)

The sixth installment of the action-packed Brotherband Chronicles from John Flanagan, author of the worldwide bestselling Ranger’s Apprentice! When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they’re blown far off course - so far that they wash up on the shores of a land to the west that Hal can’t recognize from any of his maps. Eerily the locals are nowhere in sight, yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched. Suddenly the silence is ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

You will be scared. But you won’t know why... I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always. Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.” And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here. In this deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut novel, a man and his ... [read more]

ThrillerHorrorMystery

(Waypoint Kangaroo #1)

A high octane science-fiction spy thriller that puts a new spin on the outer space adventure, WAYPOINT KANGAROO kicks off a blockbuster series full of adrenaline and intrigue. Kangaroo isn’t your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is “the pocket.” It’s a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe, and Kangaroo is ... [read more]

Science FictionMilitary Science Fiction

(White Sand #1)

A brand new saga of magic and adventure by #1 New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson. On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss - a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her ... [read more]

FantasyComics

(Playing with Monsters #1)

My coven has remained hidden in the shadows for centuries. We’ve avoided the ‘real world’ altogether; hiding from monsters and other creatures we share this planet with. We found protection in the Colville National Forest, nestled in a town protected by magical barriers. Our powers are locked by an ancient curse, one meant to protect us from being found. Until now. The past has a way of repeating itself. A new game is beginning. No one is safe. He’s coming for me. He’s ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal Romance

(Monsters of Verity #1)

There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war; a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains — and friends or enemies — with the future of their homes at stake. For fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor. Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city — a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultUrban Fantasy

(The Adventures of Arabella Ashby #1)

Andre Norton Award 2016. This debut novel by Hugo-winning author David D. Levine offers adventure, romance, political intrigue, and Napoleon in space! Ever since Newton witnessed a bubble rising from his bathtub, mankind has sought the stars. When William III of England commissioned Capt. William Kidd to command the first expedition to Mars in the late 1600s, they proved that space travel was both possible and profitable. Now, one century later, a plantation in the flourishing British ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(The Custard Protocol #2)

London is in chaos. Rue and the crew of The Spotted Custard returned from India with revelations that shook the foundations of the scientific community. There is mass political upheaval, the vampires are tetchy, and something is seriously wrong with the local werewolf pack. To top it all off, Rue’s best friend Primrose keeps getting engaged to the most inappropriate military types. Rue has got personal problems as well. Her vampire father is angry, her werewolf father is ... [read more]

FantasySteampunk

(Awaken Online #1)

On paper, Jason has a great life. He attends a prestigious private school on scholarship and his parents are reasonably well off. Yet life hasn't been easy for Jason. He has spent most of high school being tormented by both the students and faculty and his parents are never home. Frustrated and alone, his one escape has always been video games. In-game, he can feel the type of power and freedom he lacks in his day-to-day life. Fortunately, a new virtual reality game (the first of its kind) ... [read more]

FantasyLitRPG

(Craft Sequence #5)

The new novel in the series praised by NPR as "sharp, original, and passionate." The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back - and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm - and against her old classmate, a rising star in ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(Ava Sykes #1)

Knock down, kickass nightclub bouncer Ava Sykes takes us deep into a dystopian world and out the other side in this dark and gritty, high-action urban fantasy Some things are better left in the dark... Undergraduate by day, bouncer by night, Ava Sykes is just trying to make her way in New LA, a city recovering in the ‘Aftermath’ the time after an earthquake tore the country apart. Ava studies hard, trains at the local dojo, and teaches kids self-defence. Sure, she has a rare ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(Alien Darlings)

I'm on the last ship out.I don't think I'm going to make it, but I do. Earth is dying and there's only one way I can possibly survive: fight for a spot on the dragon planet of Taneyemm.They don't want humans there.They don't like us.They don't know us.But when I step foot on the ship bound for Taneyemm, I know it's my last hope. I'll do anything I have to survive.I'll do whatever it takes.When I finally reach my destination and I see the alien dragons for the first time, I realize I'm in way over my head.And I don't know if my heart is ready for this.  [read more]

Science FictionRomanceParanormal RomanceShapeshiftersDragons

(Missy Masters #2)

Missy Masters — aka the legendary superhero Mr Mystic — owes a lot of people favours after the events in The Dragons of Heaven. And these aren’t easy favours to pay back. So when one of the Argent Aces, Abby Trent, asks for her help in retrieving a Shadow Realms artefact, she figures this will help her pay down at least one of her debts. The problem: Abby is just as good at getting into trouble as Missy, and before they can recover the artefact, it’s stolen by Abby’s arch-nemesis ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(The Dreaming Cities #2)

A novella. Quinn returns in The Ghoul King, another story of the Dreaming Cities by Guy Haley. The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world – whatever that means, any more – to restock his small but essential inventory. After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot. But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many... [read more]

FantasyScience Fiction

(The Dinosaur Lords #2)

"It's like a cross between Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones." - George R. R. Martin Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often cruel world. There are humans on Paradise but dinosaurs predominate: wildlife, monsters, beasts of burden, and of war. Armored knights ride dinosaurs to battle legions of war-trained Triceratops and their upstart peasant crews. Karyl Bogomirsky is one such knight who has chosen to rally those who seek a way from the path of war and madness. The fact that the ... [read more]

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