Archive for January, 2012

Of Blood and Honey Shortlisted for the Crawford Award

January 25th 2012 at 5:05 pm

Congratulations go out to Stina Leicht, Of Blood and Honey made the shortlist for the 2012 William L. Crawford Fantasy Award! And Blue Skies from Pain, the follow up to Of Blood and Honey, will be released in March. Don’t miss it! And Blue Skies From Pain Northern Ireland, 1977. Liam Kelly is many things: [...]

An Interview: Mazarkis Williams

January 24th 2012 at 10:09 am

“As a brand new SFF writer, with your début still very young and fresh, who is “Mazarkis Williams” and what’s he all about, both as a writer and a person? There’s nothing very gripping about Mazarkis Williams—hopefully the book interests people more. I’ll make an attempt. As both a writer and a person, I’m interested [...]

A Review: Enormity

January 24th 2012 at 10:06 am

“Many Lopes is a lonely, miserable American working a government job in Korea. He hasn’t seen his wife in two years, and she finally gives up on their long-distance relationship and leaves him. Manny chose to work in Korea partly to experience another culture, but as a dark-skinned American he tends to be treated as [...]

2011 Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot Announced

January 23rd 2012 at 2:06 pm

Congratulations go out to Thomas Roche and John Hornor Jacobs! Their novels, The Panama Laugh by Thomas Roche and Southern Gods by John Hornor Jacobs, have been named on the Preliminary Ballot for the First Novel Bram Stoker Award. You can find the full list here.

Yesterday’s Hero Cover Art Revealed

January 23rd 2012 at 1:51 pm

Last year Night Shade released No Hero, the awesome debut novel from Jonathan Wood, this year we’re super excited to bring you the next in the series, Yesterday’s Hero. I can’t give you an excerpt just yet…but I can show you some totally safe for work nerd porn! Click here to see the fantastic cover [...]

Golden Tentacle Finalist: God’s War by Kameron Hurley

January 20th 2012 at 5:45 pm

“A never-ending war rages on a far-off world. While battles rage at the front, hardened mercenaries and bloodthirsty assassins stalk the outskirts, doing the conflict’s really dirty work: bounty hunting, kidnapping and murder. In the shadows, magicians manipulate a form of advanced biotech (now thought of as wizardry), perfecting their sinister arts in bloody ways. [...]

Guest Post: Martha Wells

January 19th 2012 at 6:43 pm

Laura Anne Gilman invited The Serpent Sea author Martha Wells to guest post on her blog, head on over there to see what Martha has to say on character, gender and society. “The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea are fantasy adventure novels about a character named Moon who is an orphaned shapeshifter. He grew [...]

Interview: John Love on Faith

January 19th 2012 at 7:19 am

“Toward the end of last year I read and reviewed a space opera debut from Night Shade Books — Faith by John Love. The basic premise is that 300 years ago an unidentified ship visited the Sakhran Empire and left it devastated. One Sakhran recognized the ship for what She was and wrote the Book [...]

Donner’s Guide to Dating Artificial Girls

January 17th 2012 at 4:11 pm

“Donner’s Guide to Dating Artificial Girls by GUEST on JANUARY 16, 2012 · 0 COMMENTS Television writer Michael Dempsey turned novelist with NECROPOLIS, a sci-fi/noir blend published by Night Shade Books. Its protagonist is alcoholic NYPD detective Paul Donner, who, after dying … well, let’s let the author take it from here in this guest [...]

A Review: Miserere

January 17th 2012 at 4:08 pm

“Miserere is the debut novel of Teresa Frohock, released mid-2011 by Night Shade Books. A mesmerizing dark fantasy that showcases Frohock’s admirable talent as a writer, Miserere is an utterly compelling tale and pleasure to read. The story takes place primarily in Woerld, one of a hierarchy of parallel dimensions that also include Hell, Earth [...]

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