I just learned to my regret that David Feintuch died last week. He wrote the Seafort series (beginning with Midshipman's Hope), a Hornblower-influenced space opera series. I didn't know him personally, but he was so very kind as to give me one of my first blurbs, though he didn't know me from Adam; my editor Betsy had just sent him the book out of ( Read more... )

So as one would expect, I have been spending the last few weeks haunting google and blogsearch and feedster, and getting pointers from friends and the Del Rey and HarperCollins publicity folks, collecting all the reviews with much excitement, and here they are so far.

( Online Temeraire reviews so far )

Eeeee, my very first review ever! And it is a good one, too, so I can skip about with gleeful abandon all the better. (Although I hasten to announce, to propitiate the review-gods, that I am prepared for the negatives when they come, too ( Read more... )