Posts Tagged "The Serpent Sea"

• Member News: December 24, 2011

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  Courtney Schafer‘s novel The Whitefire Crossing got three great reviews this week (nothing like reading a book with snow on the cover right before Christmas! ).  First, Bastard of Bastard Books reviewed Whitefire on Only the Best Scifi, calling it a “very promising debut which I highly recommend.”  Seak of Only the Best Scifi reviewed the novel on Bastard Books, saying “I really enjoyed myself with this one.”  The third review is from Chris Hawks of SMZb, who says, “This is a really good book.”

  Courtney was interviewed by Greg Wilson and Brad Beaulieu on Speculate! The Podcast for Readers, Writers, and Fans – click here to listen .

  Katy Stauber‘s novel Revolution World is #6 on B&N Book Club’s Best SciFi Releases of 2011 – congrats, Katy!

  Stina Leicht‘s forthcoming novel And Blue Skies From Pain was featured over on A Dribble of Ink – go check out the gorgeous cover!

  Martha Wells‘s new novel The Serpent Sea is now shipping from Amazon, and has started showing up in bookstores – run go get your copy!

  Only one more week left of the Night Bazaar in its current form!  But fear not, the blog’s not going anywhere – coming in 2012, a new slate of Night Shade authors will be taking the stage.

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• Member News: December 17, 2011

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  Martha Wells‘s novel The Cloud Roads is FREE on the Kindle right now!  Hurry on over and get your copy before the promotion ends!  And go read N.K. Jemisin’s post on the Book Smugglers for a rousing recommendation of both The Cloud Roads and sequel The Serpent Sea (out Jan 3, so not much longer to wait!).

  Thomas Roche was interviewed about ebooks, the future of reading, and The Panama Laugh at the blog Beyond Black Friday. His interview also appears as part of the Kindle subscription blog Me and My Kindle.

  Brad Beaulieu’s novel The Winds of Khalakovo got a great review from Pat of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, and made Pat’s top ten SFF novels of the year – congrats, Brad!

  Courtney Schafer participated in an SF Signal Mind Meld, discussing her favorite SFF books and TV shows of the year.

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• Member News: December 10, 2011

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  Huge congratulations to Katy Stauber, who sold her second novel Spin the Sky to Night Shade, for publication in fall of 2012!  Spin the Sky is a science fiction reinterpretation of the Odyssey, set in near-Earth orbital colonies.

  Martha Wells has a guest post on the Book Smugglers blog for their Smugglivus Fest, sharing the books she loved in 2011 and the novels she’s looking forward to in 2012.  She also has signed copies of The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea entered in the Magick4Terri fundraiser auction.

  Brad Beaulieu had an interview with Justin Landon over at A Staffer’s Musings, where Justin grills Brad about Russian literature and themes and stuff (it’s a long but very interesting interview!).

  Brad, Courtney Schafer, and John Hornor Jacobs also contributed signed novels (and one ARC, in Brad’s case) to Patrick Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders charity fundraiser – see here for details.

  Only three weeks left of the Night Bazaar in its current incarnation!  During our final weeks we’ll be discussing our lessons learned as debut authors and looking back at the year we’ve just had from both professional and personal perspectives.  And tune in tomorrow for a guest post from Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Desert of Souls and editor of Black Gate magazine.

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• Member News: November 5, 2011

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  The Night Bazaar gang had a fantastic time at the World Fantasy Convention!  Attending were Bradley P. Beaulieu, Stina Leicht, John Hornor Jacobs, Courtney Schafer, and Katy Stauber.  Night Shade Books also attended in force, throwing an awesome party complete with special beer and mixed drinks based on the books of their authors.  For more pics of the fun (including the excellent Whitefire Pale Ale), see Courtney’s WFC 2011 photo album on flickr.

  

  Brad Beaulieu and Greg Wilson, for their podcast, Speculate!, interviewed Laird Barron and our very own John Hornor Jacobs on writing cosmic horror and their stories in The Book of Cthulhu from Night Shade Books.

  Martha Wells‘s novel The Cloud Roads is now available as an audiobook narrated by Christopher Kipiniak (released Nov 4).  Martha is running a giveaway on Goodreads for The Cloud Roads‘s sequel The Serpent Sea – click here to enter!

  Courtney Schafer will be signing her novel The Whitefire Crossing at the Boulder Barnes & Noble from 6-8pm on Saturday Nov 12, as part of a bookfair fundraiser for the Pikes Peak Writers.  For more information (including how to participate in the bookfair if you’re not in Colorado), see the Bookfair flyer.

  Thomas S. Roche is interviewed at length in the 10ZenMonkeys.com piece Why Thomas Roche Dreams of a Zombie Apocalypse, in which he talks about the writing of The Panama Laugh and his background in zombie fiction.

  In the lead-up to the BBC’s audio adaptation of Thomas‘s crime-noir short story “Hell on Wheels” as part of their Pulp Fiction Series (airing Saturday November 12 at 11:30pm UK time), Thomas was interviewed about vintage pulp fiction and crime novels, in an interview to air in soundbites as part of promotional segments for the Pulp Fiction 2 series.

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• Member News: September 24, 2011

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  Thomas S. Roche‘s novel The Panama Laugh received a rave review from Paul Goat Allen at Barnes & Noble, where it’s featured in the B&N Book Club. And speaking of book clubs, The Panama Laugh was selected as the October Vanilla Horror Book for Fetlife’s Kinky Intellectual’s Book Club. Rebecca Stefoff at Innsmouth Free Press also reviewed the book very positively. David Solmonson’s 12 Bottle Bar went so far as to invent a new drink for The Panama Laugh, “The Laughing Zombie,” using bloody grenadine to take the edge off the usually ultra-tart beverage while delivering a post about the history of zombie, the monster and the drink. And last but not least, on his blog, zombie writer David Moody called The Panama Laugh “Fast-paced, smart and never predictable.” In other news, Roche was captured by paramilitary troops who put his head in a freezer in an attempt to shrink it back down to size.

  Martha Wells‘s novel The Cloud Roads was reviewed by Fantasy Book Cafe, who said “The Cloud Roads was an engaging, absorbing novel.”

  Martha also posted a free short story set in the same world as The Cloud Roads: “The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment“.  The Cloud Roads’s sequel, The Serpent Sea, is now available for preorder: visit Martha’ website for ordering links and a chapter one excerpt.

  Bradley P. Beaulieu has a guest post over at SF Signal on “Writing in Discomfort: One Writer’s Thoughts on Political Correctness” that has sparked quite the interesting discussion in comments!  Go read and add your own thoughts.

  Courtney Schafer‘s novel The Whitefire Crossing was reviewed over at Fantlab.ru (in Russian, which gave her the chance to dust off her rusty Russian skills from her high school & college days to read it!), and received 8/10 stars.

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