Greetings from limbo! I’m currently en route to Continuum, but given the weirdness of time zones and the international date line, I have no idea where or when I’ll actually be when this post goes up. In fact, depending on the flight, it’s possible that I might never see June 4, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.!

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The last time I did a LOL Book was April of 2010. But then I was browsing through some of Vonda McIntyre’ old blog posts at Book View Cafe, came across this cover, and was inspired…


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I haven’t done a LOL book in ages.  Heck, a good chunk of my readers probably found me after I stopped doing ‘em.  But what can I say - I saw this cover, and was struck by inspiration.  The book is Day of the Minotaur, by Thomas Burnett Swann.


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• Seanan McGuire (of Rosemary and Rue fame) has drawn a nifty promo piece for The Mermaid’s Madness.  Click here to see her pretty little dead ghoul mermaid in all her glory.

• Tomorrow (9/26) from 11 am - 7 pm I’ll be at the Durand Fantasy Expo.  Details available on the Facebook page or on MySpace.  Lots of nifty guests lined up.

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Heading off shortly to take my wife in for knee surgery #6.  This one is fairly minor, but blogging & e-mail will probably still be scarce for a few days.

And … um … nothing else to say really, so here, have a LOL book.


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Since the last one seemed to go over well (and since I spent all of my brain on the short story rewrite this weekend and had nothing left over), how about another LOL Book?

This one is from Spell Games [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], by T. A. Pratt.


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As some of you know, I used to post regular LOL Books.  Sadly, I eventually chose to stop doing them because it was taking too much time, and it was becoming work rather than fun.

However, as I was browsing Amazon yesterday, I came across a book just crying out for a LOL…


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My story "Original Gangster" is up at Fantasy Magazine today. Isn't free fiction a wonderful thing? I wrote this one a while ago, and it's a change from a lot of my stories. I'm both eager and a little nervous to see what people think ( Read more... )

The Librarian sez, "You can't spell LOL Books without Ook!" Previous LOL books are available at http://jimhines.livejournal.com/tag/lol.

Today's book is Fire Logic [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], by Laurie J. Marks.

Don't you just want to offer her a cookie?


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LOL books are heading to GenCon this week, and will likely be too exhausted to post anything next Monday. Sorry! (But do say hi if you're going to be at GenCon!) Previous LOL books are available at http://jimhines.livejournal.com/tag/lol.

Today's book is Daggers of Darkness [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. ( Read more... )