I loved the innovative approach the author took, presenting this history of Dark Age Britain as a series of literal journeys through the landscape. The language is beautiful, full of poetic eyewitness impressions of the locations he visits, along with tons of useful an...
I discovered these books because of the TV show. Though the series has been ongoing since the early 90's and apparently has millions of devoted readers, somehow it never pinged my radar. That's one of the best things about books, though: you'll never get to the end of...
A major anxiety of mine (and, from what I've read, many other writers) is the fear of slowing down, of going long periods between having work published. Partly this is a monetary thing (let's face it, when you're an artist, if you don't sell, you don't eat), but it's...
Over at Omnivoracious, Amazon’s book blog, reviewer Adrian Liang has a post titled “Science Fiction and Fantasy Series You Can’t Put Down.” The list has some good series on it, no doubt, but by far my favorite is Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series. Liang writes,
