I am pleased and startled to announce that Without a Summer has been awarded RT Reviews Best Fantasy Novel. The other novels on the list are stunning and you should definitely check them out. LONDON FALLING Paul Cornell, TOR, (April 2013) THE CITY Stella Gemmell, ACE, (June 2013) COLD STEEL Kate Elliott, ORBIT, (July 2013) MASKS E.C. Blake, DAW, (November 2013) […]
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Well, this is a lovely way to start off the novel’s life cycle, don’t you think? “Kowal has always had a talent for integrating historical fact into her series, but her use of the cold summer of 1816 coupled with the original creation of the “coldmongers union” transforms a simple weather phenomenon into a fascinating
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Over at John Scalzi’s blog, I have a post in his series The Big Idea. This is where authors talk about some aspect of their work that is at the core of the story. Here’s a little bit of it as a teaser. “Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can
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