BOOK FOR WEBCOMIC FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY GATHERS TEN YEARS OF LYRICS AND HISTORY (Glendale, CA) – FLYING GLORY FLASHBACK: CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF THE LYRICS, WORDS, AND HISTORY BEHIND THE WEBCOMIC FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY, a book that features the complete words for all of the lyrics featured…
This week’s Reviewing the Mail begins with a long-distance shout-out to Ellen Wright, who started at Wiley the first week I did, but has since moved up and on to working in Publicity with the fine folks at Orbit US. My pipeline of Yen Press titles — Yen being the manga arm of Orbit —…
ALL PULP REVIEWS-by Ron Fortier GIDEON’S SWORD Preston & Child Vision 380 pages In 1995, thriller specialist Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child joined forces to write a best selling novel titled, “The Relic.” In the process, they created one of the most popular action suspense heroes ever to appear on the printed page; FBI Special…
The end of the year is fast approaching, which means Certain People (I name no names) realize that they need to use up their vacation days or lose them. Changing subjects entirely, today I took off from work, and most of what I did was bop into the city to do some book-shopping. (I had…
Yep, the gift-giving holidays are upon us once again. Here’s three recent releases that are among the top of my list. The Stan Lee Universe, by Danny Fingeroth and Roy Thomas TwoMorrows Publishing, $39.95 hardcover; also available in softcover and digital If you’re asking “who’s Stan Lee and why should I care about his universe?”…
Harlan Ellison, once called “the 20th century Lewis Carroll” by the Los Angeles Times, invites you to explore his 56-year career in four new books. These four volumes, designed to bring Ellison’s writing to a new generation of readers while collecting rare works for his long-time fans, gather classic stories, entertaining essays, unpublished teleplays, and…
Before I get to the box that came today, I have to thank Glenn Hauman, who was responsible for several big boxes of stuff that showed up semi-mysteriously yesterday, while I was at work. He was trying to get me started on rebuilding the collection that the flood destroyed, and it was one of the…
Paul Mannering’s new novel, TANKBREAD is now available now in Kindle format at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006F820M2Paperback edition coming soon. About Tankbread, a novel by Paul Mannering. Ten years ago humanity lost the war for survival against a spreading plague that brought the dead back to life as flesh eating monsters. Now intelligent zombies rule the world. Feeding…
From Joel Jenkins- One day only (that’s 11/28 until the morning of 11/29), get 30% off my just-released book, The Gantlet Brothers Greatest Hits. Normally,you’re looking at $11.95 (still a bargain in my completely biasedestimation), but if you follow this link (https://www.createspace.com/3621701 ) and use the discount code 5YRZ6A8W you get 30% off the cover…
by Sam Kusek Neil Barton is your quintessential bookworm. Happiest when his nose is buried in the middle of his favorite young adult fantasy series, Apathea Ravenchilde, Neil is not looking forward to his transition into high school. Like many of us at that tender age of 13, Neil doesn’t exactly know who he is…
New Pulp Author Howard Hopkins (writing as Lance Howard) has a new novel coming from UK publisher Hale Book’s Black Horse Western line. Hell On Hoofs is set to debut in January 2012. About Black Horse Westerns:Black Horse Westerns can be requested at public libraries or ordered at bookstores. They can be bought online from…
John Wayne Cleaver is not a serial killer; he wants you to know that up front. He’s also not, sadly, a typical American teenager, though he somewhat wishes that he could be. Thirdly, he’s not officially a sociopath — that diagnosis can only be given to an adult, and John is only fifteen. What he…
