books

2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards

June 27, 2011

This weekend at the ALA Conference in New Orleans, ForeWord Magazine announced the winners of the 2010 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. I’m extremely proud to have edited the following 2010 ForeWord winners. Check them out if you haven’t… Gold Medal, Horror Toothless by J. P. Moore (Dragon Moon Press) Gold Medal, Fantasy Scimitar [...]

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High Praise for “Hero”

June 23, 2011

“A perfect example of how an anthology of stories should work…” –Andrew Jack Our first review, and it’s a fantastic one! See the full review… If you’re a book blogger or reviewer and you’d like an e-copy of When the Hero Comes Home to review, please drop me a line through the contact link above [...]

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Cross promotion makes me happy

June 20, 2011

Author J.M. Frey has written a great review of The Empress Sword by Paulette Jaxton, for Lambda Literary. You can see the review here — it contains minor spoilers. Last week, I finally got to meet my friend and long-time writing partner Xander Briggs in the flesh. Xander has a touching story in When the [...]

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WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME

June 6, 2011

We have a book cover, and it is beautiful. Art is by Scott Purdy. If you want to purchase a copy early, you can get the ebook version direct from the Dragon Moon Press site. This is a PRESALE, not a preorder, as in, you can have an ePub or Kindle version in your hands [...]

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Book Roundup

April 28, 2011

Lots of activity this week, all regarding books and projects I’m involved with. * Publishers Weekly calls Erin Hoffman’s SWORD OF FIRE AND SEA (Chaos Knight Book 1) a “likeable high seas fantasy adventure debut.” I edited this book for Pyr, and had the pleasure of hanging out with Erin this past weekend at Norwescon. [...]

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Norwescon

April 21, 2011

In a bit of an impromptu change of plans, the fates are sending me to Norwescon 34 in Seattle this Saturday and Sunday. I’m not on any programming and I have no set schedule, but I’ll be around. If you’re going to be there, find me and say hi! Twitter will probably the best way [...]

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Win a Baby Griffin!

April 11, 2011

The amazing Windstone Editions is teaming up with World of Andovar. Author Erin Hoffman will be giving away two baby griffin statues in celebration of the release of Sword of Fire and Sea from Pyr. To enter, just “like” the World of Andovar Facebook page! More details are available at Erin’s blog. I had the [...]

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ToC: When the Hero Comes Home

April 9, 2011

It is with great pleasure that I announce the table of contents for WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME, co-edited by me and Ed Greenwood. The anthology will be available in AUGUST 2011 from Dragon Moon Press. More info as I have it! A Place to Come Home To by Jay Lake and Shannon Page An [...]

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2010 ForeWord Finalists Announced

March 21, 2011

Finalists have been announced for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards, and I’m pleased to see that five of the books I’ve worked on this past year have made the list! In the Science Fiction category: * Angel of Chaos by Nina Munteanu * Destiny’s Blood by Marie Bilodeau In the Fantasy category: * [...]

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Fighting Gravity

February 24, 2011

One of the toughest things about being in publishing, on either side of the desk, is having to sit on good news. I think it’s even harder than getting rejection letters, because at least with rejections you can share your pain. Getting an exciting offer and not being able to tell anyone can be excruciating. [...]

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