This was interesting and made me think and this is why I'm adding it here. ETA: This is a bit long. It brought up some of the anxiety I have annually when work wants me to sign the Disability Survey, the question they ask is if you have a physical or mental condition that impacts your ability t...
Melissa (or Mel to her friends and family) a 14 year old girl wakes up and finds her entire town in South Dakota has gone to sleep and died. Trying to figure out what is going on while also realizing that because of her schizophrenia she could just be hallucinating everything, has Mel walking a tigh...
All I can say is that I didn't want this to end!
Wow! This book was better, and different, than expected. It isn't just another book on craft. It's barely even a reference guide. It has essays packed with valuable tips written by authors I love. Sure, a few of these were not in my niche, but the ones that were blew my mind. I could not recommend t...
Shattered Shields edited by Jennifer Brozek is an anthology focused on military fantasy, specifically heroic struggles and epic combat. Here seventeen short stories and novellas explore the vast expanse of military fantasy in all its varied forms from adventures in hither unexplored worlds to new ta...
I'm giving this book four stars because I enjoyed pretty much every word in it. So why not five? Because for the most part I did not come away from the book with any great insights that would change the course of my writing. It was a very entertaining read, especially Orson Scott Cards' section, ...
See my review at http://www.shocktotem.com/05/14/2011/rigor-amortis/
keywords: horror, post-apocalyptic, bioterrorism, plague, anthologybrainycat's "5 Best B"s (on a scale of one to five):boobs: 1 / blood 3 / bombs 2 / bondage 1 / blasphemy 3Grant's Pass is an excellent concept anthology that I enjoyed reading. The authors of each of the twenty pieces were provided w...
I had to finish this today so I could read something else and hopefully push this out of my brain. That should not be taken as a negative review. The stories in this anthology gave me nightmares, precisely because they were so incredibly believable. They're stories of people alone, together, making ...