Synopsis What do you see when you look at a painting? The image, the brush strokes, the stippled canvas beneath? What if you looked beyond it? And what do you know about the person who created that picture that’s hanging on your wall? They say art requires a certain acceptable degree of madness. What secrets […]
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Author Chat: Nick Cutter on “The Queen”
Nick Cutter, author of horror books such as “The Troop,” “The Deep,” “Little Heaven,” “The Handyman Method,” and new from Gallery Books, “The Queen,” is one of the first contemporary horror writers I came across. To say I wouldn’t be where I am without his work is no understatement, considering “The Troop,” was the first […]
Review: When the Void Splits the Realm (Anagovia #3) by Sam Parrish
Synopsis: They followed a prophecy written in the stars, but they were too late before they even began. With the great sacrifice of one of their own, Li’or, Hashkan, Emond, and Gemni escaped a dying realm and freed its people. But the damage to the Fabric is already too great, and terrors from beyond the […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 128: Tasha Suri talks The Lotus Empire, Sapphic Fantasy, Anime & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author Tasha Suri about her new novel The Lotus Empire, completing The Burning Kingdoms trilogy, her love for anime, sapphic fantasy and the romantasy boom, South Asian/historical inspirations in her work, writing messy characters and multiple POVs, piquing readers’ curiosity, the shortcomings of academia, Dev Patel, knights and much more.
Review: Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke
Synopsis Evan Grey is just trying to get his store, REWIND VIDEO, up and running. Fate, unfortunately, often has other plans. Then he finds something that would be the perfect touch, an old vacuum tube TV. One that keeps turning to static. And it too has other plans. It follows you. Drives you. It’s already […]
COVER REVEAL: The City of Mist and Tears (Mothers of Sorrow #1) by Alex Robins
Blurb A riveting new story set in the acclaimed War of the Twelve universe. Keselgraad. A city of iron and stone, rising from the mist-shrouded wasteland to pierce the pallid clouds. A colossal man-made mountain stretching a mile high, from the blood-stained alleyways of the Slums to the crystal-studded spire of the Church of the […]
Double Cover Reveal – STATIC SIGNAL LIVING LEGACY & TALES OF THE STARS by Livia J Elliot
Today I have the honour of doing my first double cover reveal for the very talented and clearly highly skilled multi-tasker Livia J Elliot. The books-with-choices will be released on November 1st through Unearthed Stories and can be read for free (yes you read that correctly) You can install Unearthed Stories for free: Right now […]
Book Review Fury of the Gods (Bloodsworn Saga #3) by John Gwynne
TL;DR: An insanely epic conclusion to one of my favorite series of the year. High-stakes, fast-paced, gripping action and satisfying emotional resolutions across the board. Synopsis: The Fury of the Gods is the earth-shattering final book in John Gwynne’s bestselling Norse-inspired epic fantasy series, packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance. The final battle for […]
FLASHBACK REVIEW: The Troop by Nick Cutter
SYNOPSIS Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip; a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story and a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder — shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry — stumbles upon their campsite, Tim […]
Cover Reveal: The Execution of Rooker Flynn (Locke Institute Trilogy Book 3) by A.R Witham
Today I have the double honour of announcing both the title and revealing the cover for the third instalment in AR Whitham’s hugely entertaining Locke Institute Trilogy. Book 3, The Execution of Rooker Flynn, is due out Summer 2025 and completes the story started in The Crimes of Rooker Flynn and continued in The Trial […]
Review: Bloodwoven by G.J Terral
Synopsis Lin is a competent, dedicated soldier but his mission takes a drastic turn when one of his charges is found murdered. Soon after, he is ambushed by magic-twisted monsters, gravely wounded, and abandoned by his one remaining ally. Waking to find his injuries healed by forbidden magic, Lin is marked as an oathbreaker by […]
Review: The Bug Collector by Wrath James White
Synopsis: Joey has a very unique paraphilia that has ruined his health, destroyed his once handsome looks, and made him an outcast, a pariah. Now, this horrifying fetish threatens his very life, placing him in the hands of a profoundly disturbed and angry woman with a serious grudge. From the twisted imagination of Wrath James […]