Risingshadow: June 2016 Edition

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by Kirk Dougal. Kirk Dougal has had fiction works appear in multiple anthologies and released his debut novel, Dreams of Ivory and Gold in May of 2014 through Angelic Knight Press, with a 2nd edition released in February 2015. His YA/thriller novel, Jacked, leads the launch of Ragnarok Publications' Per Aspera SF imprint in 2016. He is also waiting on the publication of his SF/LitRPG novel, Reset, while completing the sequel to Dreams, ... [read more]

Invaders: 22 Tales from the Outer Limits of Literature (edited by Jacob Weisman) will be published by Tachyon Publications in June/July 2016. Information about Jacob Weisman: Jacob Weisman is the editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications, which he founded in 1995. He is a three-time World Fantasy Award nominee and is the series editor of Tachyon's Hugo, Nebula, and Shirley Jackson Award–winning novella line. His previous anthologies include The Sword & Sorcery Anthology (with David G. ... [read more]

Larry Ivkovich's Warriors of the Light was published by IFWG Publishing in May 2016. Information about Larry Ivkovich: Larry Ivkovich is a former IT professional with a BFA degree in fine art from West Virginia University. He is the author of several science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories and novellas, published online and in various print publications and anthologies including M-Brane SF, Afterburn SF, Penumbra, Twisted Cat Tales, Abaculus III, Raw Terror, Triangulations, Shelter ... [read more]

G. S. Denning's Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone was published by Titan Books in May 2016. Information about G. S. Denning: G. S. Denning was born in Seattle, Washington. He has published articles for games company Wizards of the Coast, worked as an editor, written a video-game script for Nintendo, and written and performed shows at the Epcot Center, Walt Disney World. With a background in improv, Gabe has performed with Ryan Stiles and Wayne Brady, and he currently has a play running in ... [read more]

Aliya Whiteley's The Beauty was published by Unsung Stories in September 2014. 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 Fiction I ... [read more]

Philip Fracassi's Altar was published in January 2016 and Mother in December 2015. Both of them were published by Dunhams Manor Press. Information about Philip Fracassi: Philip Fracassi, an author and screenwriter, lives in Los Angeles. He has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years and was the founder of Equator Books, a publishing house and rare, out-of-print bookstore in Venice, CA. Prior to publishing, he spent seven years as a live music producer for House of Blues ... [read more]

Christopher Nuttall's Full Circle was published as an e-book by Elsewhen Press in October 2015. The paperback edition was published in November 2015. Information about Christopher Nuttall: Christopher Nuttall has been planning sci-fi books since he learnt to read. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Chris created an alternate history website and eventually graduated to writing full-sized novels. Studying history independently allowed him to develop worlds that hung together and provided a base for ... [read more]

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Gregory A. Wilson's Icarus was published by Silence in the Library Publishing in April 2016. Information about Gregory A. Wilson: Gregory A. Wilson is Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction along with various other courses in literature. His first academic book was published by Clemson University Press in 2007; on the creative side, he has won an award for a national playwriting contest, and his first novel, a ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Gregory A. Wilson about his epic fantasy graphic novel, Icarus (Silence in the Library Publishing, 2016). Gregory A. Wilson is Professor of English at St. John’s University in New York City, where he teaches creative writing and fantasy fiction along with various other courses in literature. His first academic book was published by Clemson University Press in 2007; on the creative side, he has won an award for a national playwriting contest, ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Paul Kearney about his new fantasy novel, The Wolf in the Attic (Solaris Books, 2016). Information about Paul Kearney: Paul Kearney is the critically-acclaimed author of The Monarchies of God and the Sea Beggars series. He has been long-listed for the British Fantasy Award. In the eight years subsequent to the publication of The Way to Babylon, Kearney lived in Copenhagen, New Jersey, and Cambridgeshire, but at present he makes his home a ... [read more]

Michael Wehunt's Greener Pastures was published by Shock Totem Publications in April 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]

Kenny Soward's Galefire was published by Broken Dog Press in December 2015. Information about Kenny Soward: Kenny Soward grew up in Crescent Park, Kentucky, a small suburb just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, listening to hard rock and playing outdoors. In those quiet '70s streets, he jumped bikes, played Nerf football, and acquired many a childhood scar. Kenny's love for books flourished early, a habit passed down to him by his uncles. He burned through his grade school library, and in high ... [read more]

Redfern Jon Barrett's The Giddy Death of the Gays and the Strange Demise of the Straights was published by Lethe Press in May 2015. Information about Redfern Jon Barrett: Redfern Jon Barrett is a writer and polyamory rights campaigner armed with a doctorate in literature. Author of The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights and Forget Yourself (Lethe Press, 2016), his works have exhibited in seven countries and been translated into five languages. His writing has featured ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Debra J. Edwards. Debra J. Edwards is a full time writer living in Norfolk. She lives in a rambling Victorian house with husband and pyscho staffy, Buster. Debra currently has four books published. A trilogy about stroppy teenage tooth fairies; Aggie Lichen; Pilp Collector, the sequel, Aggie Lichen; Pilp Collector - Arty's Revenge with Hero Required, the third book in the series. Marvin’s Curse is her fourth novel although the first for YA ... [read more]

(A Shade of Vampire #27)

Lies run deep in this mysterious new world... [read more]

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(Return of the Elves #1)

A deathbed promise Arlyn’s quest is simple: Find her father and let him know her mother is dead. After all, Arlyn had promised her mother she’d go. The problem? Her father's people are myths and legends, and he doesn't even live on Earth. But despite a long journey through the mysterious mists of the Veil, finding him turns out to be the easy part. A dream long-buried After five hundred years, Kai has given up on finding his soulbonded. So when he stumbles across Arlyn after returning ... [read more]

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(House of Secrets #3)

The exciting final book in the New York Times-bestselling House of Secrets trilogy, a collaboration that began with famed Hollywood director Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini and now ends with the addition of new collaborator — popular middle-grade author Chris Rylander. With their last adventure just barely over, the Walker kids thought they could finally go back to normal. They escaped Dahlia Kristoff, the evil Wind Witch, yet again, and this time, they managed to leave with a mysterious ... [read more]

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(Outriders #1)

A daring hostage rescue leads to the discovery of an imminent terrorist attack. Thanks to the Outriders, thousands of lives are saved. Until they aren’t. Despite the intelligence and the warnings provided by the unit, the terrorist attack goes off unhindered. What was supposed to be a triumph becomes a tragedy, and a “mission completed” completely unravels. And when they learn the reasons why, the Outriders find themselves tasked with stopping a war before it can ever ... [read more]

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(Terra Ignota #1)

Hugo Award nominee 2017. The first book of Terra Ignota, a four-book political SF epic set in a human future of extraordinary originality Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. The ... [read more]

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Inspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa, this novel, with permission from the Clarke Estate, continues the story of Commander Howard Falcon over centuries of space-exploration, interaction with AI, first contact and beyond. All brought to life by two of our greatest SF authors, Stephen Baxter and Alastair Reynolds. Howard Falcon almost lost his life in an accident... and a combination of human ingenuity and technical expertise brought him back. Not as ... [read more]

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(Black Wings #5)

Edited by S. T. Joshi. Cover art by Jason Van Hollander. This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird and terrifying. One of the central themes in Lovecraft’s work is the problematical nature of science in human affairs, and in this volume we find stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lynne Jamneck, and Donald R. Burleson where scientists ... [read more]

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(The Binders Game #2)

With his friend Talia attacked because of something he did, the only option for Galen is obtaining revenge. Doing so leads him to a heavily guarded compound where he must use every skill he possesses to not only reach his target, but to survive. Part 2 of The Binders Game, set in the world of The Dark Ability. [read more]

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(Summoner #2)

A year has passed since the Tournament.Fletcher and Ignatius have been locked away in Pelt’s dungeons, but now they must face a trial at the hands of the Inquisition, a powerful institution controlled by those who would delight in Fletcher’s downfall.The trial is haunted by ghosts from the past with shocking revelations about Fletcher’s origins, but he has little time to dwell on them; the graduating students of Vocans are to be sent deep into the orc jungles to complete a ... [read more]

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(Kith & Kyn)

Fans of steamy vampire romances will love the first book in the Kith and Kynn series, nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. “A torrid erotic vampire romance. 5 Stars!” — Harriet KlausnerClosing up her small bookstore is the end of a dream for Rachel Marks, and with debt collectors calling and nowhere to turn, she knows she’ll have to do whatever she can to make ends meet. When a waitressing job opens up at the hottest club in town, Rachel figures she can ... [read more]

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(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]

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The tale of Aiden Evans is one as old as time itself. Love, jealousy, and a terrible curse. After over ten years of living in the Louisiana bayou as a monstrous beast, it is time for Aiden to organize his life and put it back together. Beauty and the Beast Retelling [read more]

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(QQ Sweeper #3)

Supernatural cleaners Kyutaro and Fumi can literally sweep trouble away…but can Kyutaro sweep Fumi off her feet? One day, Kyutaro Horikita, the tall, dark and handsome cleaning expert of Kurokado High, comes across a sleeping maiden named Fumi Nishioka at school… Unfortunately, their meeting is anything but a fairy-tale encounter! It turns out Kyutaro is a “Sweeper” who cleans away negative energy from people’s hearts—and Fumi is about to become his apprentice! Fumi still has no ... [read more]

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(New Pompeii #1)

Some time in the near future, energy giant NovusPart develops technology with an unexpected side-effect: it can transport objects and people from deep in the past to the present day. For post-grad historian Nick Houghton, the controversy surrounding the programme matters less than the opportunity the company offers him. NovusPart’s executives reveal their biggest secret: they have saved most of the people from Pompeii, minutes before the volcanic eruption. Somewhere in central ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Chronicles of the Necromancer)

A Jonmarc Vanhanian Collection. These are the untold tales of Jonmarc Vahanian, hero of Gail Z. Martin’s best-selling Chronicles of the Necromancer series. Jonmarc Vahanian was just a blacksmith’s son in a small fishing village before raiders killed his family. Wounded and left for dead in the attack, Jonmarc tries to rebuild his life. But when a dangerous bargain with a shadowy stranger goes wrong, Jonmarc finds himself on the run, with nothing ahead but vengeance, and nothing behind ... [read more]

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(Godserfs #1)

Five bedraggled refugees and a sinister wizard awaken a dragon and defy the gods. After their homeland is struck with a deadly plague, five refugees cross the continent searching for answers. Instead they find Psander, a wizard whose fortress is invisible to the gods, and who is willing to sacrifice anything – and anyone – to keep the knowledge of the wizards safe. With Psander as their patron, the refugees cross the mountains, brave the territory of their sworn enemies, confront a ... [read more]

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(Majat Code #3)

The third novel in the stunning Majat Code series... Defeated by the Majat forces, Nimos and the other Kaddim Brothers retreat to their secret fortress in the southern mountains. Nimos knows that the Majat’s victory is only temporary: during the flight, he managed to place a mark on Kara, one of the top-ranked Diamond Majat. His mind magic would now allow him to use this mark to confer her fighting skill to the Kaddim warriors and turn her loyalties to their side. The new Majat ... [read more]

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(Epic Failure #1)

Sergeant Rogers left the Meridan Patrol Fleet to become an entrepreneur (smuggler) and when a deal goes as bad as bad can be he finds himself in a worse position: enlisted back into the Meridan Patrol Fleet just as a coup is going on, and somehow he’s the best chance the military has of stopping it. [read more]

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In The Engines of Sacrifice, acclaimed writer James Chambers delivers four nightmare novellas inspired by the Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.Investigation 37: In the late years of the Vietnam War, Lavender May runs away from home to search for freedom and peace in New York City, but instead, she finds only a world of magic, witchcraft, and lies.The Ugly Birds: Only one thing could save Carmine Darabont's comics magazine from going under: publishing the next chapter of the hit series "The ... [read more]

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(The Underground #1)

The first book of the action-packed adventure series by USA Today Bestselling Author, Erin Bedford.Alice was wrong – Wonderland wasn’t so wonderful after all. Kat never expected to be back in her hometown, but when house sitting turns into a mad rabbit chase, Kat finds herself with a whole new set of problems. A two headed bird with a Game of Thrones obsession, a party full of tea addicts, and a Cheshire Cat who could seduce the pants off her grandma? And if the citizens weren’t bad ... [read more]

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