Ice Land by Betsy Tobin Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Plume (August 25, 2009) ISBN-10: 0452295696 Destiny is everything. At the foot of the tree Yggdrasil, the Norns sit and spin the threads of fate. The shuttle carries the weft through the loom, moving back and forth, back and forth, until… Read More »Review of Ice Land by Betsy Tobin
It’s been a while since I’ve provided any updates on the progress of my novel. Currently, I still have my test group reading it, and I hope to have the majority of their feedback by the end of this month so I can return to editing again starting in September.… Read More »Novel Update – 8.20.09
According to Scotland’s Sunday Herald, young 22-year-old Mark Buckland has launched a new publishing house in Glasgow called Cargo. Buckland states: “I have been frustrated at seeing young writers, people under 35, struggling to get anywhere in the Scottish industry. There is a lack of opportunities, a lack of people… Read More »Upstart Scottish Publishing Company Seeks to Reward New Writers
Based on an article in the New Yorker, the following seven fantasy novels are essential books for the novice, literary adult reader: The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay, but particularly Tigana, The Lions of Al-Rassan, Sailing to Sarantium, and The Fionavar Tapestry (a trilogy that… Read More »Seven Essential Fantasy Reads
He was the pious king, the saintly king, one of the last Anglo-Saxon rulers to sit the English throne. He was St. Edward the Confessor, the son of King Ethelred II and Emma, the daughter of Richard II of Normandy. Exiled due to Danish invasions and unrest among the English… Read More »Edward the Confessor (c. 1003 – 1066)
Hugh and Bess by Susan Higginbotham Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark (August 1, 2009) ISBN-10: 1402215274 He was the son of a traitor. The prisoner of a queen. The lover of two women. The soldier of a king. And the target of something greater than all of these. He was… Read More »Review of Hugh and Bess by Susan Higginbotham
The finalists have been announced. Categories include novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, collections, and artists. Finalists in the Novel category include: The House of the Stag, Kage Baker (Tor) The Shadow Year, Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury) Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory (Del Rey) Tender Morsels, Margo… Read More »2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees
I’ve been doing research, trying to find e-zines that publish short stories focused on historical fiction or fantasy. Using the 2009 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market book, I’ve compiled the following list. Some publications accept historical fiction, others accept fantasy, and then some accept any genre of fiction as… Read More »Online Publications for Short Stories
My friend Linda McCabe has posted an article about a medieval castle being built in Arkansas. It’s part of a project to reconstruct a castle based on the actual methods used in the Middle Ages. The project is called the Ozark Medieval Fortress, and it began in June 2009. By… Read More »Construction of a Medieval Castle in Arkansas