Archive for June, 2011

Another STARRED review for Happily Ever After.

June 12th 2011 at 11:44 pm

Publishers Weekly says, “fairy tale fans will give this volume pride of place on the shelf.” John Klima has brought together 33 of the best fairy tale retellings to create, Happily Ever After and the reviewers love them as much as we do! Read the full Publishers Weekly review online.

John Klima talks fairy tales and fantasy characters.

June 12th 2011 at 11:33 pm

Diamond Book Distributor sat down with John Klima to talk about his new fairy tale anthology, Happily Ever After,”With Happily Every After hot off the press, John Klima has agreed to an article with Diamond, and he will weave quite a tale of the trials and tribulations of being an editor! How did the idea [...]

Yarn nominated for the John W. Campbell Award.

June 12th 2011 at 11:14 pm

Jon Armstrong’s latest novel Yarn, a stylish tale of love, deceit and memory, has been nominated for the 2011 John W. Campbell Award. Congratulations Jon! In case you’d forgotten, last years winner was Paolo Bacigalupi’s critically acclaimed novel The Windup Girl. Both of these fantastic novels are available in paperback from your favorite retailer.

Library Journal gives Happily Ever After a STARRED review!

June 12th 2011 at 10:41 pm

Happily Ever After is a magical collection of retold fairy-tales gathered together into a doorstop-thick anthology by Hugo Award wining editor John Klima. This awesome volume has been given a starred review by Library Journal, they call it, “Entrancing, rich, and strange.” Read the full review at libraryjournal.com.

Publishers Weekly review Eclipse 4

June 3rd 2011 at 11:07 pm

“Strahan continues to raise the bar for original genre anthology series.” Publishers Weekly The quote says it all! With Eclipse Four, Jonathan Strahan has yet again delivered an outstanding genre anthology. The latest installment of the series hit the shelves last month and is available from many of your favorite retailers. Here’s the full review.

Jay Lake reviews Dancing With Bears

June 3rd 2011 at 11:00 pm

Award winning author Jay Lake is a man with good taste! He has reviewed Michael Swanwick’s entertaining new novel, Dancing With Bears,and said, “Dancing With Bears is not New Weird, nor steampunk. It is post-apocalyptic fiction in the tradition of Alas, Babylon, Canticle for Leibowitz and Riddley Walker, except set in a future which is [...]

Bookgasm gets excited about Soft Apocalypse

June 3rd 2011 at 10:47 pm

“This is not THE ROAD, nor even one of the MAD MAX movies, although SOFT APOCALYPSE carries faint echoes of both. This is the tale of a band of survivors who struggle to live in a world where everything has gone to shit.” Slade Grayson, Bookgasm. Soft Apocalypse, the debut novel of Hugo Award winning [...]

Do you have a Nook?

June 3rd 2011 at 10:36 pm

This week, in collaboration with Barnes and Noble we are giving away Bradley Bealieu’s debut novel as a free Nook Book. Among inhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelago of seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky. Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo’s eyrie stands at [...]

TOUGH AS RATS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SWANWICK

June 3rd 2011 at 10:24 pm

Continuing their series of author interviews Diamond Book Distributors have spent some time with Michael Swanwick and discussed not only his new novel, Dancing With Bears, but also how it feels to win awards, the one person in the world he would like to meet and the inspiration behind his writing. “Michael Swanwick is a [...]

Interview: Will McIntosh on Finding Love During The Apocalypse

June 3rd 2011 at 10:06 pm

SF Signal sat down with novelist Will McIntosh to discuss his amazing debut, Soft Apocalypse. They talked love in the apocalypse, life as a writer and his plans for the future, “SF Signal: Soft Apocalypse was based off of a short story by the same title. Was this intended early on, or did you find [...]