Kristine Kathryn Rusch spends a great deal of time exploring “what if.” She writes science fiction, fantasy, romance and mystery. A Hugo Award winning editor and a co-publisher of Pulphouse, not to mention an avid reader,
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Book Review Blog: Five Questions with Barbara Hambly
Book Review Outline You may remember when Simeon Beresford answered these five question, he mentioned Barbara Hambly’s Bride of the Rat God twice. It and several of the author’s other works have just become available as ebooks. Her
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Book Review Bloggers: Off the Shelf Series Interview with Gail Carriger
One of the Best Book Review Websites Presents Off the Shelf Series Interview with Gail Carriger In Episode 8, Kghia and Simeon interview Gail Carriger, the author of Soulless, Changeless, and Blameless. Gail combines urban fantasy, or rather urbane
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L. C. Tyler Interview by Bookstacks Online
Academic Book Reviews Online LC Tyler’s great love of reading shows through in everything he writes. The author of the Herring Mystery series, he rapidly established himself in a crowded genre with these lugubrious comic
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Thebookstacks.org Interview with Fantasy Author Teresa Edgerton
Show Notes Author Website | Amazon Author Pages: US / UK This show’s music: “Polwart on the Green ” by Musica Pacifica on the album Dancing in the Isles available on Magnatune.com We begin the interview discussing Teresa’s early influences — The Wizard of Oz and The Lord of
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Books Discussion: Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards!
The Best Website for Book Reviews Presents Lludmila Mirrikh at The Pub in Awen to discuss the first of the Sam Vimes fantasy/adventure/mysteries by Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards! Monday, January 23 at 11am PST Tuesday, January
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Fantasy and Mystery Author Barbara Hambly on Off the Shelf
We were so pleased to welcome this episode’s guest, Barbara Hambly, a well-established writer who seems able to turn her hand to any genre with the same aplomb. Our only problem was how to fit in
Continue ReadingRadio Riel Nominated for Favorite Second Life Radio Stations
Off the Shelf airs on the Radio Riel stations, and we were thrilled to hear it was nominated for an Avi Award. See the details below, and please VOTE FOR RADIO RIEL!!! Contact: Gabrielle Riel FOR
Continue ReadingHorror in SL
The October Country Undead Group tells me the members have set up a number of places streaming both old radio shows and readings. Yesterday, for example, I heard a reading of “Herbert West: Reanimator.” It
Continue ReadingInterview with Marjorie M. Liu
This week, Simeon and Kghia interview Marjorie M. Liu, author of both urban fantasy and comicbooks. Marjorie talks about her past work as well as her newest Dirk & Steele novel, In the Dark of Dreams, which comes
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