Geekerella by Ashley Poston “I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I’m possessed. By a whole lot of stupid.” “It’s also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone’s cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.”  “We might all be different – we may ship different things or be in different fandoms – but if I learned anything from...

Readers, you know I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of Naomi Novik’s newest fantasy novel, Spinning Silver, the not-a-sequel yet-same-universe-ish Eastern European historical fantasy world she first inhabited in the much lauded and loved Uprooted [which I have recommended before if you want to check the categories in the sidebar]. I’m listening to the audiobook now and need I say, I am loving it? It’s not the same...

Yes! The Dead Shall Live is available in digital e-book everywhere, with trade paperback and hardcover soon to follow!   And about those reviews–not only are the early reviews raves, but–   Reviewers have even started swearing like Vespasian.   “Buggering, rutting hell! Why did it have to end?” “Holy moly, or should I say, buggering hell! My head is spinning as I’m finally released from the...

One of the fun things steampunk has been known to do is change history. Some history doesn’t seem to lend itself to a steampunk touch, or so Michael Swanwick  said on a 2009 steampunk panel with Everfair’s author, Nisi Shawl. You don’t have to know the history of the Congo Free State to appreciate the rich complexity of Shawl’s first novel, Everfair. But it certainly enhances it. Thus, let me begin with a an edited...

This cover. OMG, this cover. Don’t you want to know more about this world? So did I. If you can read what Maurice Broaddus says about his mother, duppy stories, and this world and not buy this novella immediately? Then you are not me. Seriously? Steampunk in an alternate history Jamaica, where Jamaica is a world power? [Because that’s the way his mother would want it?] Let me say that again. Jamaican Steampunk! And as if that...