Fantasy novelist:Alright, time to create my fantasy world. Great thing about this genre is that I can make it anything I want. Could be based on any culture in any place from any time. Could be a mix of places and times, or something newly invented by me. Yup, there is literally nothing out of bounds here.
Fantasy novelist:I'm gonna go with medieval England.
Oh, I’m good. Seriously, after all these years, you’d think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov,
The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she’s a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. There are all kinds of courage. You’ll find yours.

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New Releases

Sci-Fi/ Fantasy - May.21, 2013

The Red Plague Affair (Bannon and Clare #2) by Lilth Saintcrow (Barnes & Noble, Amazon)

Wicked Business (A Lizzy and Diesel Novel) by Janet Evanovich (Barnes & Noble, Amazon)

Tarnished (Silver) by Rhiannon Held (Barnes & Noble, Amazon)

Blood and Bone (Malazan Empire #5) Ian C. Esslemont  (Barnes & Noble, Amazon)

The years passed and the forest grew. Bricks crumbled away and the woman never left until one day a prince happened upon the tower. The vines and branches, so thick and warped, clung to each other and blocked the sky, but the prince looked up, tracing the lines of the mortar with a hand

One lone window looked out over the forest.

The prince had heard the rumors of the towers since he was a babe. Alone and abandoned waited a princess for someone to save her after the men of her country, fearing her beauty, locked her away.

He started to climb.

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