If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Hot on the heels of the first in the Iron Druid Chronicles, Hounded, by Kevin Hearne, comes Hexed, the next chapter in the story of Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids. Orbit have announced that it will be released [...]
Hold your breath for The Revenge of the Dwarves, the next thrilling instalment in his spectacular epic from international bestselling author Markus Heitz, out in October from Orbit Books. For countless millennia, no man or beast has ever succeeded in breaching the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Until now… Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith [...]
Orbit Books are to release Hounded, a fantasy novel by Kevin Hearne in UK paperbook next month, the first in a series of books featuring Atticus the druid. Atticus O’Sullivan has been running for two thousand years and he’s a bit tired of it. After he stole a magical sword from the Tuatha Dé Danann [...]
Orbit books have announced the release of a new book by Kristen Painter due out on October 1st 2011. Blood Rights is an urban fantasy novel and is the first of five books in the House of Comarré series. Born into a life of secrets and service, Chrysabelle’s body bears the telltale marks of a [...]
Fans of Terry Brooks Shannara series will be pleased to learn that book two in the Lengends of Shannara duology is due to be released next month by Orbit Books. The new title, The Measure of the Magic is the sequel to the fantasy epic Bearers of the Black Staff. Following the catastrophic demon war [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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