Patrick Rothfuss Interview (and another way to win a Desert Spear ARC)

A few months ago, Patrick Rothfuss, author of the internationally bestselling epic fantasy novel The Name of the Wind and all-around nice guy, asked me if I would be interested in doing an interview on his blog. Of course I said yes. To date, I have never turned down an interview request, but this one […]

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Fun with Brent, Blake and Gail

You may recall that I took a ton of funny videos at the World Fantasy Convention this past October, and never posted them. My bad. In part it is because I came down with a flu son after, and then came my trip to Toronto, and then the holidays, and then Dani had the flu, […]

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Books Read in 2009

A lot of bloggers are making end-of-year lists of books they read in 2009. They’re not hard to find, but here are some particularly awesome ones (because they mention yours truly, natch): Fantasy Book Critic Robots and Vamps A Dribble of Ink Walker of Worlds Fanlit The end-of-year roundup is something I’ve occasionally done on […]

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Holiday Cheer, DSAC Style

Looks like I opened up a can of worms yesterday by responding to a reader review on Amazon. You can get the story over on Grasping for the Wind. But it’s Christmas, and my loving readers have been more than willing to spread me some sweet holiday cheer with new DSAC entries from women I […]

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Fantasy for Breakfast

I’ll get to the Fan Art Contest in a minute. Honest. In the meantime, I wanted to post this fun thing google alerts showed me, a French fantasy review blog called Fantasy au Petit-Dejuner, AKA Fantasy for Breakfast. The reviewer films short videos of his review, showing the books next to his brekkie. He is […]

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