You guys know I love historical fantasy - so today I'm hosting author E.C. Ambrose, whose latest medieval fantasy novel, Elisha Mancer, was published by DAW Books today!

Here she is:


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Wooooot! Patrick's standalone YA novella, The Dinosaur Hunters, is out today! I love this story SO MUCH. It’s a witty, exciting Agatha Christie-style mystery set on Regency Mars WITH DINOSAURS and a fabulous cross-dressing heroine. It is absolutely my catnip!

You can read my full Goodreads review here, but as a quick sum-up, I’ll just say: I feel ( Read more... )

Note from Steph: I'm thrilled to be hosting Tehani Wessely on one of the stops in the Cranky Ladies of History blog tour!


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Over at the Girls Heart Books blog, I just posted an entry called Shrieking Underneath the Covers, all about the weird phenomenon of Pre-Publication Panic. Here's a snippet:

Even when my first book came out, as I was dealing with my very first experience of Publication Day Panic (which can begin many months before the actual publication day), I ( Read more... )

You guys may remember how much I love, love, LOVE Caitlen Rubino-Bradway's Ordinary Magic, which came out in the US this spring - it's Book One in my favorite new MG fantasy series! And one of my very favorite parts was the wonderful family at the center of it, all of whom squabble, tease, torment, and love each other enormously ( Read more... )

I love the idea of Morgan Keyes's first MG fantasy novel, Darkbeast (which I've just begun to read, despite my genre-reading-issues right now - and it is great so far!), so I'm thrilled to have Morgan here on the blog, talking about some of the inspiration behind the novel and offering a copy for giveaway ( Read more... )

Oof. I was up all night with poor MrD, who's really sick with a nasty childhood illness - and the fact that this coincides with my Kat 3 edits is pretty much par for the parenting course, as I've discovered over the past few years - so it was absolutely the perfect day for this particular guest post to arrive.

I raved here about Tricia Sullivan's ( Read more... )

...is over at the group blog Smack Dab in the Middle: Choosing Favorites.

Here's a quick excerpt:

For someone who loves books so much, I have a really hard time answering this question. Every time people ask what my favorite book is - or what it was, when I was a kid - I start stammering. "Well, see, there are so many ( Read more... )

Thank goodness for friends! This week I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed as I dig my way out of my CFS crash, work on my two WIPs at once, try to figure out various admin things, etc., etc...my energy levels are a bit low, to say the least! Luckily, though, Amy Brecount White, author of the lovely YA fantasy novel Forget-Her Nots (read the first five ( Read more... )

And a quick links round-up, since they've been piling up lately in the open tabs on my browser...

• Jeweler Emily Mah is giving away another beautiful Kat necklace AND a signed (by me) paperback copy of A Most Improper Magick (aka, Kat, Incorrigible on her facebook page. All you have to do is comment, letting her know what you'd do with magical ( Read more... )