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150 free short stories from Tor
Tor is giving for free the assembled collection of original stories in ebook format (more than 4000 pages and a big file to download). The offer is up until July 31st, so hurry up if you want to pick...
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August releases
August is a huge month in term of releases! Here you go!From the list of coming up titles for 2013 I posted in January, The Dark Defiles by Richard Morgan is now scheduled for a 2014 release.***The...
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New maps - Smith, Ryan and Wexler
I have three new maps to share with you guys from novels released recently. They have also been added to the index. Enjoy!***Here's the lands of Ro, Karesia and Ranen from the world of A.J. Smith...
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Mage's Blood review
Mage's Blood is the first book in a new series called The Moontide Quartet by David Hair, a New Zealander author who wrote several YA Fantasy novel (for 2 series) and won an award for one in New...
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Mark Lawrence's announces Prince of Fools
With the conclusion of the Broken Empire released last week, Mark Lawrence announced his next project (in fact he did it on August 1st...). In this blog post he explains why he chose to put Jorg...
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New poll - Page rule
Over the years, I have read about several readers who gave books a specific number of pages before considering giving up on them. Some set it as a rule and some are less strict about it. If we look...
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Sprunk's Blood and Iron cover
Jon Sprunk, author of the Shadow Saga series starring the assassin Caim will present a new series next year (March 11th), The Book of the Black Earth. The first novel of this Epic Fantasy series is...
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David Gemmell Awards shortlist
Back in June, I posted the longlist for the David Gemmell Legend Awards for Fantasy and it's now time to present the shortlist. Hopefully, my votes in the longlist for Mark Lawrence's King of Thorns...
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Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye cover reveal
Orbit unveiled today the cover for the third Lightbringer novel by Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye. The design is the work of Lauren Panepinto, the illustration from Silas Manhood and the photography by...
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Black Bottle review
Black Bottle is the follow-up to my favorite novel of 2010, The Last Page. It was the debut novel of Anthony Huso, a video game designer, and the series was planned as a duology from the start. Black...
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Willrich's The Silk Map cover art
I finished reading The Scroll of Years last week, a good sword and sorcery novel by Chris Willrich. The book will be released by Pyr on September 10th and is the first full length book in the Gaunt...
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A Round of Covers
Time for a nice round of covers!*** First up is the second book of the Chaos Born trilogy by Drew Karpyshyn, following Children of Fire, The Scorched Earth. The cover is a great contrast from the first...
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Excerpts - Hair, Karpyshyn, Scull, Deas and Dalglish
Want to get an early taste of upcoming books or read a sample of newly released ones? Here's some of them that surfaced in the last weeks:Mage's Bloodby David HairExcerpt from Tor.comMy reviewA Dance...
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September releases
Here's the spotlight for the Fantasy releases of September 2013.Also, for the US readers, two books that I have reviewed in the past months are also released:Mage's Blood by David Hair on September...
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Poll - Purchase time
Poll time everybody!The last poll results are in. My previous question was: How many pages do you give a book before giving up?Depends on the book - 29%100 or so - 23%I always finish them -...
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Orbit books covers
Orbit books revealed the covers for their 2014 spring/summer calendar. Here are the ones that caught my attention. You can take a look at all of them at Orbit's page.***Let's start this round with...
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The Scroll of Years review
The Scroll of Years is the first Fantasy novel of Chris Willrich. The book is a tale of Gaunt and Bone, his two protagonists for whom he wrote several shorts since the year 2000. The ex-librarian also...
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Sam Sykes' The City Stained Red cover and blurb
Sam Sykes, the author of the Aeons' Gate series (Tome of the Undergates, Black Halo and The Skybound Sea) released some info and his feelings about the cover art of his next novel, The City Stained...
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Pierre Pevel's The Knight cover
Pierre Pevel's next book (he the author of The Cardinal's Blade, The Alchemist in the Shadow and Dragon Arcana) has seen a couple of different titles in its English translation. The Three Prince War...
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The Tyrant's Law review
The Tyrant's Law is the third novel in the Dagger and the Coin series by Daniel Abraham. The book was released in May 2013 and will be followed by The Widow's House next year. If you haven't read the...
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