Review: Steampunk edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
I do enjoy a good short story anthology and Steampunk really fits the bill. It offers 14 terrific stories all in the Steampunk genre (although some of them are pretty loosely connected -- I'm looking...
View ArticleDual Review: Twelve, Thirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent
Before I start reviewing “Twelve” and "Thirteen Years Later" I have to go on a rant, a rant about books with serial killers. The success of "The Silence of the Lambs" has meant a huge number of books...
View ArticleCover to Cover #456: DIY EBooks (We're Not Dead Yet!)
Mike M and Mike S jump back in the saddle, chatting about what they did on their extended summer vacations: Stackpole went to a few conventions (Gencon, Origins), and published his first digital...
View ArticleReview: Debris by Jo Anderton
Jo Anderton’s debut novel is a compelling tale which pulls you in right from the start. Debris is told from the point of view of the protagonist Tanyana, as the story progresses she searches for the...
View ArticleCover to Cover #457: Listener Questions
The new "Cover to Cover" will be switching to an every other week schedule, mostly to give the guys and the listeners time to do the actual work required... MRM doing the writing for Mistress of the...
View ArticleReview: Roil by Trent Jamieson
Trent Jamieson’s Roil, the first book in The Nightbound Land duology, promises... and delivers.
View ArticleCover to Cover #458: Prepping and Planning A Story
Listener Questions: Tad from Mesa is one of the few who has an old edition of Mistress of Dragons and he's interested to see how the new version evolves, really enjoyed Stackpole's At the Queen's...
View ArticleCover to Cover #459: How and Where to Get Started
Would you be interested in receiving PDFs of sample chapters from authors, writing prompts or assignments or items of that ilk? Let us know your thoughts on that! Mike S lays out some steps to keep in...
View ArticleCover to Cover #460: Information Management and Story Questions
Mike S brings up some salient points about the legal tussle going on between HarperCollins and Open Road Media over the definition of "ebook" because of a new electronic version of Julie of the Wolves....
View ArticleCover to Cover #461: Building Your Audiences
Discussion: Mike S talks about the importance of developing a private audience, separate from the groups you're cultivating on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and other social networks. What's your...
View ArticleReading Diary #01: WebGenii's Reads
This is WebGenii, with an installment from my “Reading Diary”. For those of you who’ve been listening to Cover to Cover for a while, it should come as no surprise that I read many more books than I...
View ArticleCover to Cover #462: Deconstructing the Story
Mike S points out that the real kidney punch to B&N was done by Apple a few weeks ago with their ebook textbook deals, and the guys talk about how these deals could change how teachers teach and...
View ArticleReading Diary #02: WebGenii's Reads
This is WebGenii, with an installment from my "Reading Diary". So what have I been reading lately?
View ArticleCover to Cover #463: Techniques for Managing the Details
Mike S also recommends that everyone go out and purchase digital picture frames, scan in the covers of all their books, sit it on your shelf and have it display your book covers as slideshows. Writing...
View ArticleReview: Alien Contact edited by Marty Halpern
With twenty-six short stories telling tales of man meeting with other intelligences, Marty Halpern has pulled together an anthology filled with hours of enjoyable reading.
View ArticleCover to Cover #464: Understanding Character Growth
Discussing the News: Mike S talks about Amazon's Kindle Select program that allows Kindle owners to borrow ebooks, and the payment method they're using to compensate authors for the loans, but it's an...
View ArticleReading Diary #03: WebGenii's Reads
This is WebGenii, with another installment from my "Reading Diary". So what have I been reading lately? I started with "The Bible Repairman and Other Stories" by Tim Powers, published by Tachyon...
View ArticleReading Diary #04: WebGenii's Reads
I picked up Garth Nix's "Troubletwisters" at a Scholastic Book Fair. The book is co-written with Sean Williams.
View ArticleReview: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
The world is a fairly orderly place, talking mice, gorgons, Chupacabra... these are things of fairy tales, mythology and supermarket tabloids. Not so in Seanan McGuire's new novel Discount Armageddon,...
View ArticleReading Diary #05: WebGenii's Reads
This is WebGenii, with an installment from my "Reading Diary". So what have I been reading lately?
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