My review of the anthology of wolfman short stories edited by humorist Esther Friesner can now be found at the Sacramento Book Review website. Lots of good, humorous stories to be found there – find out my particular recommendations by clicking here.
Posts under ‘Paranormal Fantasy’
Book Review: Wolfbreed by S. A. Swann
# Genre: Historical Fantasy, Myth, Paranormal Fantasy
# Paperback: 400 pages
# Publisher: Spectra
# Publication Date: August 25, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0553807382
# ISBN-13: 978-0553807387
# Author Website: S. A. Swann
Don’t let the cover mislead you, Wolfbreed by S. A. Swann is not your typical paranormal fantasy. Set in the Transylvanian wilderness during the Middle Ages, the story is [...]
Book Review: Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse by Kaleb Nation
# Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
# Reading level: Ages 9-12
# Hardcover: 464 pages
# Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
# Publication Date: September 9, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1402218575
# ISBN-13: 978-1402218576
Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse is a young adult novel that has echoes of early Terry Pratchett in its pages. Teenage author Kaleb Nation began the story when he was fourteen, completing it [...]
Book Review: Fevre Dream by George R. R. Martin
My review of George R. R. Martin’s classic tale of steamboats and vampires is up at Tor.com. “This is paranormal fantasy for people who prefer science fiction.”
Book Review: Mercy Thompson: Homecoming by Patricia Briggs
# Genre: Paranormal Fantasy, Graphic Novel
# Hardcover: 112 pages
# Publisher: Del Rey/Dabel Brothers
# Publication Date: August 25, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0345509889
# ISBN-13: 978-0345509888
In the first graphic novel set in the paranormal fantasy world created by New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs, her heroine Mercy Thompson is given an origin story. The novel, Mercy Thompson: Homecoming [...]
Book Review: In Ashes Lie by Marie Brennan
My review of Marie Brennan’s second Elizabethan/Cromwellian history/fairy tale, In Ashes Lie, is up at Sacramento Book Review. I like this work because you don’t have to have read Midnight Never Come in order to enjoy the second novel, but it does add a great deal of value.
Visual Inspiration for Writing: An Interview with Chloe Neill
Chloe Neill (Website, Blog) is the author of Some Girls Bite, Friday Night Bites the first two books of the Chicagoland Vampires, and the forthcoming Firespell (Feb. 2010), the first book in a new series.
Grasping for the Wind: How did you get into writing? What was the impetus for sitting down to produce your first [...]
Book Review: Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout
# Genre: Paranormal Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
# Mass Market Paperback: 292 pages
# Publisher: Spectra
# Publication Date: May 19, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0553592130
# ISBN-13: 978-0553592139
# Author Website: Writing and Snacks
Though Greg van Eekhout’s debut novel Norse Code will inevitably draw comparison to Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Eekhout has a styling more apropos to the paranormal fantasy of Lilith [...]
Book Review: A Fantasy Medley by Yanni Kuznia
My review of editor Yanni Kuznia’s collection of four novellas A Fantasy Medley, published by Subterranean Press, can be found in the June issue of this month’s Sacramento Book Review.
Sacramento and San Francisco area folks will be able to get a hard copy in a week or so, but anyone who wants to can get [...]
Book Review: Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
# Genre: Paranormal Fantasy
# Reading level: Young Adult
# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: Razorbill
# Publication Date: May 14, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1595142517
# ISBN-13: 978-1595142511
# Read the Prologue [PDF]
# Author Website: Lilith Saintcrow
Lilith Saintcrow makes the move to young adult fiction with Strange Angels. Best known for her Jill Kismet series of adult-targeted paranormal fantasy, Saintcrow (going by [...]
