Well the title says it all. After solidifying the idea to do a short story magazine that’s been floating in my head for ages. I’ve opened submissions for the #0 issue of NextRead Magazine. Sometimes you have to do mad things and this is probably the maddest one I’ve done for a while but I’m really looking [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Book-o-sphere Round–up: 28 February Edition
Sorry there is no Book-o-sphere Round–up this week. As you can see by the lack of posts over the last couple of days it’s been a bit quiet on the blog. It’s been a weird week where I just haven’t been able to catch up with myself though part of that is my own fault as [...]
Exclusive Short Story: The Midnight Watch by Tim Waggoner (Nekropolis and Dead Streets) from Angry Robot)
To celebrate the imminent release of Dead Streets, the second book featuring Matt Ritcher Zombie Private Eye, Angry Robot Books has released a short story set in the same universe, The Midnight Watch. And here it is… ***** The Midnight Watch “You’re really thinking about doing this, aren’t you?” Devona didn’t [...]
Book-o-sphere Round–up: 21 February Edition
Where has the week gone? I’m just finishing The Ice-Princess by Camilla Läckberg before moving on to The Preacher and The Stone-Cutter so that I can get some interview questions prepared. I’m also reading Angel’s Blood by Nalini Singh, which me dipping my toe into Urban Romance. She’s very readable. Will see how we go. [...]
Idea: Next Read Short Story Magazine
Today I had a mad idea: do an online short story magazine. This isn’t as mad as it sounds I hope. I am a reluctant reader of short stories but I have 75-odd collections floating about the place, which is probably more than average. But when I do find a story I like I fall [...]
New Releases: Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (Snowbooks)
Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder Published: 30 April by Snowbooks It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive [...]
Green Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Title: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: Book One of the Inheritance Trilogy Author: N.K. Jemisin Pages: 448 Genre: Fantasy Standalone/Series: Series but easily read as a stand-alone. Release: Out Now in Paperbackk Publisher: Orbit Synopsis Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to [...]
Question: Are you looking for book reviewers?
This question just arrived in my mail box: Are you looking for book reviewers? The answer should surely be yes, shouldn’t it? I’ve got enough books here that I could do with some help. But as nice as the offer is I’m not sure I want to open my blog to others. Not because it’s [...]
Link: I’m interviewed by Harry over at Temple Library Reviews
link: Temple Library Reviews: [Reviewer Time] Gav from ‘NextRead’ Hey Gav, thanks for undergoing this interrogation with me. I promise that it will be fun, at least for me. I will start with some mandatory questions such as what do you do in real life in order to feed the habit and who is this [...]
Book-o-sphere Round–up: 14 February Edition
Is it Sunday again? It must be. I’m listening to audio book of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read by the amazing Derek Jacobi. I can’t get enough of him reading Holmes. Truly brilliant. So with a cup of tea in hand here we go. link: Wordsmithonia: Hell’s Belles by [...]
