Synopsis Two friends, three days, one haunted spaceship. After spending the past few years hosting a successful ghost hunting webseries, Magnolia and Korinne score the ultimate opportunity of their career: tagging along as one of humanity’s ancient generation ships flies to its final resting place. It’s the perfect setting for the show’s finale, and possibly […]
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Five Films & TV Shows that Inspired ‘A Murder Most Fungal’
My new Fungalverse standalone novel A Murder Most Fungal is out in just a few weeks, and I can’t wait for everyone to dive into this fast-paced story full of food, fungi, gangsters, blackmail, and (of course) murder. This book traces its roots back to so many different mediums, from Hong Kong action cinema and Pixar films, to food shows and documentaries. So, to give all of you a better sense of how A Murder Most Fungal came to be, I’ve compiled a list of the five biggest media inspirations for its story, world, and characters.
Review: ShadowVein by Cal Logan
Synopsis: From the ashes of the old, the Shin-Kami will rise. The cult behind the demons’ resurgence is defeated, their leader slain and their remaining numbers scattered. But every victory comes at a cost. And that victory will amount to nothing unless Shura can destroy the demons at the source of their power. All that […]
Like Zombies? Watch These Shows
I’ve been brewing/toying with this one for quite a while. As a self-proclaimed zombie connoisseur, I wanted to put together a list of shows that I could come back to over and over, adding to it at least semi-exhaustively. While I may not have seen everything out there, I figured few would have tackled as […]
Cover Reveals: Whispers of the Storm & Rising Gale (Song of the Damned Book #1-2) by Z.B. Steele
Blurb REDLIN OF THE WOLVESVANGUARD, LEGEND, ASSASSIN, REAPERListen to my story:I wasn’t always the monster they see me as. Half of the songs they sing are stories of my grandeur. The other half are tales of my misdeeds.The sad truth is that they’re all true.So, listen to my tale and learn why it all happened. […]
Excerpt: A Dance in the Dust: A Prelude to the Last Ballad by Scott Palmer
A Note on the Last Ballad Reading Order: I called this the Last Ballad Series with the idea that I could write an epic fantasy series like a song—a song that echoed across tens of thousands of years, across multiple continents, cultures, religions, families, and people. A song of myth, and legend, heroes, and of […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 203: Shannon Chakraborty talks The Tapestry of Fate, Older Protagonists, Found Family & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson & Greta Kelly as they chat with bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty about her new novel The Tapestry of Fate, writing a more mature, middle-aged protagonist in The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi series, portraying motherhood on the page, blood family vs. found family, Middle Eastern poisoners and demons, balancing science with the occult, writing complex antagonists, the value of day jobs, breaking into publishing and more.
Review: Faerie Blood (The Changeling Chronicles 1) by Emma L. Adams
Synopsis I’m Ivy Lane, and if I never see another faerie again, it’ll be too soon. Twenty years after the faeries came and destroyed the world as we knew it, I use my specialist skills to keep rogue faeries in line and ensure humans and their magically gifted neighbours can coexist (relatively) peacefully. Nobody knows […]
Review: Grand Conspiracy by Janny Wurts
Synopsis: Where there is light, there must always be shadow… The fifth volume in Janny Wurts’s spectacular epic fantasy, now re-released with a striking new cover design along with the rest of the series. The wars began when two half-brothers, gifted of light and shadow, stood shoulder to shoulder to defeat the Mistwraith. Their foe […]
Synthers & Beasts by Judy Liu
Blurb Born into a powerful magical family that focuses on medicinal synthing, an ability to diagnose ailments by seeing colors, Halla struggles balancing her family’s legacy and expectations with her own career running her apothecary in a quickly modernizing world. As she navigates through her own struggles, she gets entangled with a powerful family and […]
Guest Post: Why Adults Should Consume Fantasy, Even When Living in a Dystopia by Zara Marielle
With the real world crumbling a little more beneath our feet every day, the urge to escape into fiction is strong, am I right? Tolkien said as much in his essay On Fairy Stories, likening escapism to a heroic act. Indeed, escapism can be a powerful tool in preserving our collective sanity, but it is […]
Unsouled (Cradle #1) by Will Wight
Synopsis Sacred artists follow a thousand Paths to power, using their souls to control the forces of the natural world. Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the sacred arts of his clan. When faced with a looming fate he cannot ignore, he must defy his family’s rules…and forge his own Path. Review From the very […]