Category: Books
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Dragon Awards 2018 Recommendations
The voting window for this year’s Dragon Awards will close on 20th July. As the world’s largest and most accessible SFF award, the Dragon Awards is open to all and reflects the year’s greatest works of SFF. Here are my recommendations for this year’s awards, based both on my personal experience and recommendations from others.…
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Series Review: Writing Violence by Marc MacYoung
Marc ‘Animal’ MacYoung watches rom-coms because Hollywood gets action scenes wrong. Having worked as a court-recognized expert witness, correctional institute director, bodyguard, bouncer, cooler and event security, he has decades of first-hand experience with violence and criminals. His street name came from a high-risk lifestyle filled with life-or-death encounters on the mean streets of Los…
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EPulp Sampler Volume 1: What Pulp Is Not
While the Pulp Revolution has been around for a couple of years now, it isn’t the only literary movement focused on pulp fiction. Indeed, it’s not even the first. Before PulpRev came New Pulp, which Pro Se describes as “fiction written with the same sensibilities, beats of storytelling, patterns of conflict, and creative use of words and…
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Book Series Review: American Praetorians
Welcome to the collapse. The dollar has crashed, the economy is in turmoil, and the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Warlords and terrorists run rampant in the Middle East, drug cartels wage a brutal war in Mexico and the American South, the American Republic is teetering on the brink, and in the…
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Initial Reviews for HAMMER OF THE WITCHES
Reader reception of my latest novel, “Hammer of the Witches*, has been overwhelmingly positive. With an unbroken streak of 11 5-star reviews on Amazon, it is quite possibly one of the best stories I’ve written to date. Here are a few quotes: The first thing I thought upon finishing the first book of Kai Wai Cheah’s…
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Appendix N Review: Three Hearts and Three Lions
To Holger Carlsen, Dane by birth and engineer by trade, science rules all. The immutable laws of physics govern the universe, and there is no space in this rational world for the mysterious and the magical. Yet one fateful day, when fighting along the Resistance in the Second World War, he is knocked out in…