Just a reminder of the cover for Book 1 🙂 Order here! But you came here for Book 2 🙂 Blurb Fires return. Empires burn. James Culdaine and the surviving folk of Mal Hallow have spent the winter sheltered in the haunted castle of Kallahorn. When a dwindling food supply and the looming threat of […]
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The End Of Year Horror Extravaganza 2024: with George Dunn and Anna Dupre
2024 has been overall… average, but an indisputably epic year for horror. We’ve seen the release of many a hit, from C.J Leede’s highly-acclaimed “American Rapture,” to the ambiguous mind-fuck that is Paul Tremblay’s “Horror Movie,” and of course everything in between. Googly-eye plastered serial killers, dream malls, demon phone boxes. Awesome. For me personally, […]
Excerpt: Majordomo by Tim Carter
Blurb A plucky underdog. A powerful necromancer. And the idiot heroes bent on murdering them. Kobolds are supposed to run away—it’s what they’re best at. But Jack? Born with a club foot, he’s had to adapt. Resilient and clever, he clawed his way to respectability as majordomo of a premiere subterranean estate. He even found […]
COVER REVEAL: The Wilds Exile (Ranger of the Titan Wilds #4) by J.D.L. Rosell
Like always, let’s take a look at what came before by checking out the covers for the first three (3) books in the series You can catch up here! https://amzn.to/497Be9p Ok. Are you ready now? Blurb She broke a siege. Bonded a titan. Lost the one she loved most. But Leiyn must rise above her […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 132: Writing for IP with Peter F. Hamilton, Mike Chen & James L. Sutter (Masterclass Panel)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn for a masterclass panel on Writing for IP, featuring authors Peter F. Hamilton, Mike Chen and James L. Sutter. During the panel, Peter, Mike and James explore the intricacies of writing for intellectual properties, including how to get involved in IP, deadlines and contracts, the pressures of writing in an established universe, love of the IP vs. the realities of earnings, editors and author freedom, translating visual IPs to prose and vice versa, catering to existing fanbases, author voice, IP attachment and more.
COVER REVEAL: Level: Unknown (Level: Unknown #1) by David Dalglish
Blurb The magical world of Yensere holds the key to saving humanity from a horrific apocalypse. Too bad Nick can only get there in his dreams. When an ancient alien artifact chooses research cadet Nick to explore the world stored within it—a place full of forgotten empires, heroes with strange powers, and monstrous creatures that […]
Excerpt: The Nightmarchers by J. Lincoln Fenn
Blurb From the award-winning author of Dead Souls and Poe comes an all-new bone-chilling novel where a mysterious island holds the terrifying answers to a woman’s past and future. In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits of her dead husband and daughter had joined the […]
COVER REVEAL: The Shards of the Moon (The Frostmarked Chronicles #5) by Brendan Noble
Just a little reminder of the amazing covers for Books 1-4 in the series 🙂 Order here: https://amzn.to/3YMHWwM AND WITHOUT FURTHER ADO Blurb The gods of death and darkness await. Chosen. Having defeated the Frostmarked Horde, Otylia and her mother turn to ending winter’s lingering grip. But when Dziewanna’s ritual locks her into holding back […]
Essays of a Recent Constant Reader: 11/22/63 (2011)
Welcome back, friends and strangers alike. It has been a while since I wrote one of these; in fact, the last time I discussed Stephen King in this much detail, I was discussing the vibrant shores of Duma Key. However, I return to this essay series today, on 11/22/2024, to discuss what may be King’s […]
FFA’s Most Anticipated Reads of 2025
Every cover image has a link to preorder or wishlist (mainly Amazon). Feel free to save this page for your future use 🙂 January February March April May June July August September October November December Honorable Mentions – Animus Paradox by Adam Bassett (January 27th, 2025) – Welcome to Cemetery by C.J. Daley (Q1 2025) […]
COVER REVEAL: Unlucky Evens, Cursed Odds by Bill Adams
Blurb The hateful Path, that of the 9th Born. The survival of the Ark—humanity’s last bastion after God’s wrath destroyed the world—is balanced by birth order: the oddborn are assigned a Path, the evenborn are given over to the will of God. And it is upon those of the 9th Born Path to sanitize the […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 131: Writing Multiple POVs with Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Mini-Masterclass)
Join host Adrian M. Gibson as he delves into a mini-masterclass on Writing Multiple POVs with author Lavanya Lakshminarayan. During the episode, Lavanya unmasks the many faces of multiple points-of-view, including why you would write multiple POVs, how to choose the right POV characters and tenses, making character voices unique, connecting with characters (as readers and writers), structure and pacing in a multi-POV story, viewing the same scene from different perspectives and more.