I love to hear what you guys have been reading and your recommendations for things I should be reading, so let’s get a discussion going, shall we? I’ve been all over the map lately. Here are the last three books
Howl’s Moving Castle Readalong: House of Many Ways
Did you find this one a tiny bit unsatisfying too, Squiders? I think I’ve finally figured out why both this one and Castle in the Air leave you feeling a little grumpy, and that’s that the main character isn’t the
Holy Frijoles!
Know what’s crazy, Squiders? Turtleduck Press is three years old! Once it was just a pipe dream, but now we’ve got three years of novels, anthologies and short stories under our belt, and, to celebrate, we’re releasing a special volume
The Future of Fantasy
Well, now that we’ve spent six weeks exploring some common fantasy races, we can start to look at fantasy trends instead. If you guys are familiar with fantasy, you know it goes through trends. We’ve been in an urban fantasy
Fantasy Race Series: Elves
Wrapping up our fascinating fantasy race series is KD Sarge, here to tell us about elves. Like faeries, elves are an extremely versatile race, with many different interpretations, from tall, ethereal creatures to small, trickster types. They tend to be
Fantasy Race Series: Faeries
Moving away from the mysteries of the deep, this week we travel into another element and take a look at faeries. Fairies, fae, nature spirits, trickster spirits…faeries go by many names and more guises. They can be tiny, mischievous creatures,
Fantasy Race Series: Mermaids
This week we veer away from the undead and the angelic and look into a race with that generates more of a splash. Ah, mermaids, temptresses of the sea. Sometimes they frolick through the waves, sometimes they lead sailors to
Fantasy Race Series: Angels
Going in a completely different direction this week, we’re leaving the undead behind and are looking in a more heavenly direction. Angels in fiction can be good or bad, can answer to a higher power or have fallen from grace.
Howl’s Moving Castle Readalong: Castle in the Air
I’m changing the name of the readalong for clarity’s sake. Also, whereas we read Howl’s for a direct comparison to the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, we’re basically reading the rest of the Howl series just because they’re fun and we can.
Fantasy Race Series: Vampires
This week in our series, we’re going to explore vampires. Love them or hate them, prefer them sparkly or deadly, they’ve been around for a long time and no doubt will be around for a lot longer. Here to tell