It’s time for another round of self-adulation in the form of mentioning where and when Grasping for the Wind has gotten some blurbage.
To start with, on the ARC (and I hope the published copy too) of Joel Shepherds’ Petrodor, I get top billing!
“Shepherd has created a court fantasy similar to George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire…a good epic fantasy the focuses more on the epic than the fantasy. Sasha is excellent reading for fans of character driven stories. I recommend it.”
Petrodor is the sequel to Sasha, and hits stores in March 2010.
I am currently reading The Edge of Chaos by Jak Koke. It’s a Forgotten Realms novel, a shared world in which I have been reading since I was in middle school. So it was with great pleasure to turn to the advertising section that Wizards of the Coast always puts at the back of the book to find that I am quoted on the page devoted to Bruce Cordell’s Abolethic Sovereignty trilogy.
“…he weaves a tale that adds depth and breadth to the Forgotten Realms history.”
I was talking about Cordell’s novel Stardeep there, a sort of prequel to the whole trilogy and one of the novels in the Dungeons series. I was particular excited to find this blurbage, because the Forgotten Realms is a world I keep coming back to again and again. When all else fails, I know I can read and FR book and be satisfied with the world again. Maybe that’s a little silly, but this is a proud and awesome moment for me.
If you are a subscriber to Publisher’s Weekly you may have noticed an advertisement for Daniel Rabuzzi’s The Choir Boats in which I am quoted.
“This story is unique (and) an instant classic of fantasy, and perhaps even the co-progenitor (with Novik, Clarke, and a few others) of a new subgenre in speculative fiction.”
And while I am not in the book itself, I did get a little blurbage today from Orbit Books in their post announcing that there is a free extract from Pamela Freeman’s Full Circle, the third and final novel in her Casting Trilogy. My blurb even beat out Publisher’s Weekly, coming only second place on the list!
“Sometimes, a jewel rises to the top … I loved reading Blood Ties.”
This quote is a reference to the first book, but I can unabashedly say this series is some very good fiction.
And finally, you will find some commentary by me on a Kelly A. Harmon’s Kindle Edition of her short story “The Dragon’s Clause” – “A pleasant and entertaining read.” – from Black Dragon, White Dragon edited by Robert J. Santa, and which I reviewed at The Fix.
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Congratulations on the blurbs! That’s very exciting.
Oh, I forgot to mention your shout-out of me on the CD! I”ll rectify ASAP.
John – you have the overly large back cover blurb on the Rage of the Behemoth Ageless Mountains cover (with the griffin & bear art):
“Rage of the Behemoth takes the best of Robert E. Howard and revitalizes it for the twenty-first century.”
It’s also part of a longer blurb at 2nd billing behind E.E. Knight on the opening page.
Jason – do I not mention that last timeI announced blurbage? I guess I will need to do a follow-up. Thanks for reminding me.
John
Ah, yes, you have mentioned it previously. I took this post as a recap. Feel free to remove my gratuitous self-promotion then