Risingshadow: September 2015 Edition

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Ari Marmell about the Mick Oberon series. Ari Marmell is a fantasy writer with novels and short stories published through Spectra (Random House), Pyr, Wizards of the Coast, and others. He is the author of role-playing game materials for Dungeons & Dragons and the World of Darkness line, as well as the tie-in novel to the hit video game Darksiders. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, George. Click here to visit the author's official website. AN INTERVIEW WITH ARI MARMELL ABOUT THE MICK OBERON SERIES [read more]

Ari Marmell's Hallow Point was published by Titan Books in August 2015. Information about Ari Marmell: Ari Marmell is a fantasy writer with novels and short stories published through Spectra (Random House), Pyr, Wizards of the Coast, and others. He is the author of role-playing game materials for Dungeons & Dragons and the World of Darkness line, as well as the tie-in novel to the hit video game Darksiders. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, George. Click here to visit the author's ... [read more]

Angela Slatter's The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings was published by Tartarus Press in September 2014. Information about Angela Slatter: Angela Slatter is a writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction, she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005, when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing. Since then she has completed a number of short stories, many of which were included in her two ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Yordan Zhelyazkov. Yordan Zhelyazkov was born 1988 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Actively reading since he was 4 years old he had several attempts at writing while growing up but none of them was really serious. That changed in his early 20s when he decided to turn writing into a career, began his Creative Writing Masters degree in New Bulgarian University and also started working on When They Shine Brightest. Soon after he finished his work on the novel ... [read more]

Risingshadow has the honour of publishing a guest post by J.L. Murray. J.L. Murray is the author of the Niki Slobodian series (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The Devil Is a Gentleman, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, The Devil Was an Angel, and The Devil's Backbone), The Thirteen series (Jenny Undead and Eat the Ones You Love), After the Fire, and the highly anticipated upcoming series Blood of Cain (Monstrous). Murray is a firm believer that horror can be beautiful, and that ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing the authors of Robin Hood: Demon's Bane, Book 1: Mark of the Black Arrow, Debbie Viguié and James R. Tuck. Debbie Viguié is co-author of the New York Times bestselling “Wicked” series, the “Wolf Springs Chronicles”, and the “Crusade” books, all written with Nancy Holder. Click here to visit Debbie Viguié's official website. James R. Tuck is a professional tattoo artist and author of the Deacon Chalk, occult bounty hunter series ... [read more]

Risingshadow has had the honour of interviewing Rebecca Lloyd. Winning the 2008 Bristol Short Story Prize for her story 'The River', Rebecca Lloyd, a writer and editor from Bristol, UK, was shortlisted in the 2010 Dundee International Book Prize and was a semi-finalist in the Hudson Prize for a short story collection in the same year. Her novel Halfling was published by Walker Books in 2011, and in the following year she was co-editor with Indira Chandrasekhar, of Pangea, an Anthology of ... [read more]

Debbie Viguié and James R. Tuck's Mark of the Black Arrow will be published by Titan Books in August 2015. Information about the authors: Debbie Viguié is co-author of the New York Times bestselling “Wicked” series, the “Wolf Springs Chronicles”, and the “Crusade” books, all written with Nancy Holder. Click here to visit Debbie Viguié's official website. James R. Tuck is a professional tattoo artist and author of the Deacon Chalk, occult bounty hunter series of dark urban ... [read more]

(Twisted Tales #1)

Welcome to a new YA series that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. Each book asks the question: What if one key moment from a familiar Disney film was changed? This dark and daring version of Aladdin twists the original story with the question: What if Jafar was the first one to summon the Genie? When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and ... [read more]

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(The Blood Dragon Empire #1)

Five noble war heroes of Vagandrak get drunk one night and sign a contract – to journey to the Karamakkos in search of the Five Havens where, it is written, there is untold, abandoned wealth and, more importantly, the three Dragon Heads – jewels claimed to give unspeakable power and everlasting life to those who wield them. But the Dragon Heads aren’t what they think, and the world has not encountered their like in generations! Think Smaug was fierce? You ain’t seen nothing! [read more]

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Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction. She has been dubbed “one of our most important writers,” (Junot Diaz), with “an imagination that most of us would kill for” (Los Angeles Times), and her work has been called “stunning,” (New York Times) “rich in voice, humor, and dazzling imagery” (Kirkus), and “simply triumphant” (Dorothy Allison). Falling in Love with Hominids ... [read more]

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(The Diviners #2)

The second supernatural thriller in THE DIVINERS series by New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to "read" objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, "America's Sweetheart Seer." But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities... Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer? [read more]

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(Pathfinder Tales)

A new novel in the fantasy world of the bestselling successor to the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role playing game. In the the tradition of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (if one were a talking magical sword) Rodrick and his blade Hrym are accomplished con artists and occasional adventurers — as long as it means easy money. When they get called to the court of an exotic southern island, they become pawns in a dangerous game of political intrigue. The only way to survive is to locate and "liberate" a legendary artifact. [read more]

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(The Long War #3)

ALL THAT WAS DEAD WILL RISE... ALL THAT NOW LIVES WILL FALL... In the halls beyond the world lie roads that no mere man can tread. Vast empires rise and fall, entire races fade from mortal ken, but here their sacrifices are remembered. Alexander Tiris, the last hope of the royal line, can no longer ignore the traitorous actions of his family. Thralled to the envoys of a corrupt new power, they have turned upon their kingdom and their god. [read more]

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(Heartstrikers #2)

After barely escaping the machinations of his terrifying mother, two all-knowing seers, and countless bloodthirsty siblings, the last thing Julius wants to see is another dragon. Unfortunately for him, the only thing more dangerous than being a useless Heartstriker is being a useful one. Now that he's got an in with the Three Sisters, Julius has become a key pawn in Bethesda the Heartstriker's gamble to put her clan on top. Refusal to play along with his mother's plans means death, but there's ... [read more]

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(A Shade of Vampire #17)

A new hero will rise...From the ruins of the final battle, a new hero has emerged. A hero who will take The Shade into unchartered territories. Who will usher in a new world order, in which no predator may ever be safe again. And who will experience and learn to love, like no man has ever done before... [read more]

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(The Spiral Wars #1)

One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy. But during celebrations on humanity’s new Homeworld, the legendary Captain Pantillo of the battle carrier Phoenix is court-martialed then killed, and his deputy, Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande, the heir to humanity’s most powerful industrial family, is framed with his murder. Assisted by Phoenix’s marine commander Trace ... [read more]

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(The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

March 1895. Hilary Term at Oxford. In the newly built extension to the University Galleries, Professor Quantock has put the finishing touches to a wondrous computational device which, he claims, is capable of analytical thought to rival that of the cleverest men alive. Indeed, his so-called Thinking Engine seems equal to Sherlock Holmes himself in its deductive powers. To prove his point, Quantock programmes his machine to solve a murder in the Jericho area which has been baffling Oxford ... [read more]

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(Gothic Fantasy)

Foreword by Andy Sawyer A deluxe edition of super-charged, original and classic short stories. Featuring dystopia, post-apocalypse, time travel, robots and more, this brilliant collection brings together the best of today's writers (many stories previously unpublished), with an eclectic range of science fiction masters including H. Rider Haggard, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Philip Francis Nowlan, Edward Page Mitchell and Jack London. An eclectic collection of SF adventure tales. Perfect as a gift, and for years of reading pleasure. [read more]

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(The Age of Darkness #1)

David Gemmell Morningstar Award nominee 2016. 'I can command storms, summon fire and unmake stone. Animals have nothing interesting to say and no one can see the future, because it has not been written,' growled Balfruss. 'It's dangerous to meddle with things you don't understand.' WHEN YOU FIGHT MAGIC WITH MAGIC, NOTHING IS CERTAIN. Balfruss is a battlemage, one of a vanishing breed, sworn to fight and die for a country that fears and despises him. Vargus is a soldier, and while ... [read more]

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(Wings of Fire: Winglets #2)

Fans of the New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series won't want to miss this all-new story set in the dangerous and thrilling world of dragons! Before the brightest night, the NightWings were plotting . . . Deathbringer is ready to be the next assassin for the NightWings. If he can just convince them to send him along on one mission with his mother, Quickstrike, he'll prove that he can help the NightWings decide who wins the war between the dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. But when their ... [read more]

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(Hilo #1)

Dog Man meets Big Nate in Hilo—the hilarious New York Times bestselling graphic novel series kids love! "A Total BLAST," says the Miami Herald! BOOM! CLANG! CRASH! D.J. and Gina are totally ordinary kids. But Hilo isn't! Hilo just fell out of the sky and doesn't know where he came from, or what he's doing on Earth. (Or why going to school in only your underwear is a BAD idea!) . . . But UH-OH, what if Hilo wasn't the only thing to fall to our planet? Can the trio unlock the secrets of Hilo's ... [read more]

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(The Lightless Trilogy #1)

With deeply moving human drama, nail-biting suspense — and bold speculation informed by a degree in physics — C. A. Higgins spins a riveting science fiction debut guaranteed to catapult readers beyond their expectations. Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organization that rules Earth and its solar system, computer scientist Althea has established an intense emotional bond — not with any of her crewmates, but with the ship’s ... [read more]

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In her first novel since Newbery Medal-winner The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate delivers an unforgettable story about family, friendship, and resilience. Martin and his sisters have fallen on hard times, and are living in their parents' car. Crenshaw is a stray cat, also down on his luck. One of them is imaginary. Both of them need all the help they can get to weather what life throws in front of them. Friends matter, whether real or imaginary. In her first book since she ... [read more]

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(Argeneau #22)

In New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands' new Argeneau novel, a vampire accustomed to seducing every woman he meets finds the one determined to resist him... With immortal good looks and scorching charisma, Justin Bricker has yet to meet a woman he can't win over. His potential life mate should be no different. But instead of falling into his bed, Holly Bosley runs away and ends up mortally wounded. To save her, he has to turn her. And then Bricker learns the shocking ... [read more]

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The intriguing literary SF second novel from the author of the Clarke Award-nominated The Red Men... In the near future, after the collapse of society as we know it, one English town survives under the protection of the computer algorithms of the Process, which governs every aspect of their lives. The Process gives and it takes. It allocates jobs and resources, giving each person exactly what it has calculated they will need. But it also decides who stays under its protection, and ... [read more]

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Surely the longest single author collection of stories ever published! Featuring exactly 365 stories, one for every day of a standard year (write one story of your own to fill all the days of a leap year), THE MILLION WORD STORYBOOK spans the entire writing career of a writer who has won high praise for his imaginative fantasy, weird and speculative fiction output. This collection comes in two variant editions, the male and female. They differ in 10% of their material, in the same ... [read more]

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Surely the longest single author collection of stories ever published! Featuring exactly 365 stories, one for every day of a standard year (write one story of your own to fill all the days of a leap year), THE MILLION WORD STORYBOOK spans the entire writing career of a writer who has won high praise for his imaginative fantasy, weird and speculative fiction output. This collection comes in two variant editions, the male and female. They differ in 10% of their material, in the same ... [read more]

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