Someone to Share My Nightmares, a collection of short stories by Sonora Taylor, was my first foray into horrortica and… Whoa. Can that be my whole review? No? Okay, let’s do this… Continuing my incurable habit of selecting books based solely on their covers, Taylor’s Someone to Share My Nightmares came up on my Twitter […]
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Fanfiction: The Face of Evil
Richard Dees had just one rule when it came to journalism (okay, two—but get the goods before you fork over any cash was just common sense) and he’d broken it. Spectacularly. Don’t believe what you publish and don’t publish what you believe. He’d reported on everything from Bigfoot’s bastard baby to Princess Diana’s cannibal chef […]
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Book Review: Hundred Word Horror: The Deep, edited by A.R. Ward
With the temperatures soaring over 90° (and the scenes at the overcrowded beaches a whole different kind of horror story,) last week seemed like the perfect time to collapse across the sofa in the style of a Victorian lady and read Ghost Orchid Press’s Hundred Word Horror: The Deep, edited by A.R. Ward. Nothing like […]
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Love Your Darlings (Then Kill Them)
I was asked to give a talk on writing horror at a convention in 2015. Somehow, I managed to pull it off without passing out. (I did need about a week to recover, mind…) I’m told it went well and there were a lot of raised hands at the end and that’s a good sign, […]
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Book Review: Pounded by Politics Again: Nine More Tales of Civic Butthole Diplomacy by Chuck Tingle
CATEGORY: bibliophile, book whore, books, books and reading, Chuck Tingle, erotica, humour, parody, Pounded In The Butt series, Tingleverse
If you haven’t read any Chuck Tingle, I encourage you to do it – not because it’s fine literature (because it’s not) but because it’s just too fun not to. They’re all super quick and easy reads so why not, right? I won’t lie, Pounded By Politics Again: Nine More Tales of Civic Butthole Diplomacy […]
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Book Review: Prince of Never (Black Blood Fae #1) by Juno Heart
I keep waiting for my “fae phase” to pass but… nope, no sign of that happening. Give me a book about grumpy fae royalty with a pretty cover and I will 100% be there for it. Prince of Never (Black Blood Fae #1) by Juno Heart fulfilled both of those requirements, then kept me enthralled […]
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Book Review: Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology (edited by Nico Bell and Sonora Taylor)
CATEGORY: anthology, bibliophile, body positivity, book, book review, book whore, books, books and reading, fatterpunk
Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology, edited by Nico Bell and Sonora Taylor, is one of the anthologies I was hoping to submit to but couldn’t get around to finishing anything for. Now that I’ve had a chance to read it, I’m even more gutted that I didn’t get the chance to be part of it […]
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Book Review: The Sylvan and the Sand (The Book of All Things #2) by Sarah M. Cradit
I have reached into the sand, and the sand has offered me strength. I have submerged myself in the salt of the sea, and the salt has offered me courage. They say you should never trust a book by its cover. That’s advice I’ve never been particularly good at taking – especially when it comes […]
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Book Review: Drabbledark: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles edited by Eric S. Fomley
CATEGORY: bibliophile, book review, book whore, books and reading, drabbles, fiction, horror, literature
Drabbledark II: An Anthology of Dark Drabbles was recently released from Shacklebound Books, featuring my drabble, “Surprises Suck.” I make it a rule not to review anthologies I’m part of so, instead of reviewing at that one, I thought I’d have a look at the first book in the series, Drabbledark: An Anthology of Dark […]
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Book Review: If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich
CATEGORY: book, book review, books, books and reading, gay, lgbtq, literature, pride, reading, romance
I don’t know why If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich came up on my Recommend For You list on Kindle since most of what I’ve read lately has included sexy fae (or shifters or vampires,) but it did and the tagline got my attention: Ruben and Zach are in the world’s biggest boy […]
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