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in AwardsLocus Magazine: 2024 World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2023 were presented during the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, held October 17-20, 2024 in Niagara Falls NY. The Life Achievement Awards, pres…
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in Non-fiction, ReviewsIndependent Publisher: A Room In Athens by Frances Karlen Santamaria
Review by Karen Chutsky * * * * * They say artists hover a bit outside of life; too obsessed with observing, contemplating and recording their impressions of it to be one hundred percent involved in it. Such is the pensive writing style of Frances Karlen Santamaria, best described through the words of her adoring son: “…she dashed off written watercolor like impr
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in Awards2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced
Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature…
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in Book Covers, DesignSpine Magazine: August Book Covers We Love
Welcome to August’s Book Covers We Love! The full list is comprised of a selection of covers reviewed by a panel including Co-Founder of Chapman & Wilder, Cherie Chapman; Freelance Designer Mark Swan; Author of the novels Girls in the Moon and The Looking Glass,Janet McNally; and Artworker for Ebury, Penguin and Spine Editor, Vyki Hendy.
Foreword Reviews: The Diapause by Andrew Forbes
The Diapause: “The Diapause”, Andrew Forbes’s speculative fiction treatise on a postplague world, is both a grim look at the dark side of survivalist psychosis and a heartbreaking love letter to the disappearing worlds around us. Gabe is an only child, mired…
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Novels That Gave Me Permission
by Joel Dane I published with the Big Five for twenty years. I’d been raised with a certain kind of commercial fiction, and that’s all I understood. That’s all I gave myself permission to write. Then, little by little, with the guidance of novelists who’d cast convention aside, I allowed myself to write my Passion […] More
Independent Publisher: Review of Deros by John A. Vanek
Review by Anita Lock. Rising mystery author, John Vanek, spins a chilling tale in Deros, the first of the Father Jake Austin Mystery series. The year is 2002. Father Jake Austin accepts a temporary assignment at Sacred Heart Church in the quaint town of Oberlin, Ohio one year after his ordination. Jake, who is also a doctor, takes on hours at a hospital north of Oberlin. …
Characters’ Playlist for Wildcat: An Appalachian Romance by Jeffrey Dunn
In my novel Wildcat: An Appalachian Romance, travel back with New Kid to his roots, lured to the once-shuttered Hotel Wildcat, now revitalized as a collective endeavor. Now a retired English teacher, he ventures through this transformed community, a new world unfolds before his eyes. The former mine, once a site for tragedy, now thrives […] More
2024 Locus Awards Winners
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards on June 22, 2024, during the Locus Awards Weekend. Henry Lien MCed the awards ceremony with Cory…
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Full List of 2023 Foreword INDIES Winners
These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The full list of winners for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.