Category Archives: Books

Adventure Rocketship! – The Ebook

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Cheryl

I am delighted to announce that Wizard’s Tower has been asked to publish the ebook edition of Adventure Rocketship! #1. This resulted in a significant amount of squee in these here parts. After all, I can now claim to have … Continue reading →

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Yesterday On Ujima

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Cheryl

Yesterday’s radio show was a lot of fun. I spent the first half hour of the show talking to the very talented Jack Wolf about his amazing new novel, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones. The book is … Continue reading →

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Got Aliette?

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Cheryl

Those of you who are entitled to the Hugo Voter Packet should by now have got a copy of Aliette de Bodard’s fine novella, On A Red Station, Drifting. However, if you can’t get it that way, you might just … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow On Ujima

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Cheryl

I’ll be on the Women’s Outlook show on Ujima tomorrow. We have a busy show for you. My main guest will be Jack Wolf, author of the fascinating Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones. It is a debut fantasy … Continue reading →

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I Get Podcast

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Cheryl

I am so behind on podcast listening. There are episodes of Coode Street, Galactic Suburbia, The Writer & The Critic, Shout Out and For Books Sake that I need to listen to. I have, however, managed to catch the latest … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Up Against It

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Cheryl

One of the good things about doing a lot of traveling is that I have got a lot of reading done. Now I need to write reviews. First up we have Up Against It, a very fine solar system novel … Continue reading →

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Fallen Host – Live in the Bookstore

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Cheryl

I wouldn’t normally release a book on a Saturday, but time is getting short. This one should have been out on either Thursday or Friday, but circumstances have conspired against me and as I’m leaving for Finland on Monday I … Continue reading →

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Bookslam in Bristol

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Cheryl

On a much happier note, I had a great time at Bookslam Bristol last night. Nikesh Shukla turned out to be a great host, but his best performance of the evening was when he read from one of his own … Continue reading →

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Bristol Tomorrow: Steampunk, May Day & Bank Notes

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Cheryl

I’ll be in Bristol tomorrow for the kick off meeting for Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion, the new Wizard’s Tower steampunk anthology. From 6:30pm we’ll be at the Shakespeare Tavern in Prince Street where Eugene Byrne will be entertaining us … Continue reading →

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Welcome Massimo Marino

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Cheryl

As part of our mission of bringing you interesting writers from around the world, I’m delighted to welcome Massimo Marino to the Wizard’s Tower bookstore. Massimo is Italian by birth, but has worked at CERN, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories and Apple, … Continue reading →

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Chaos Walking Goes Adult

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Cheryl

I have a press release from Walker Books announcing that new, adult editions of Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy will be published in May. As far as I know there are no changes to the actual story (though I continue … Continue reading →

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Award-Winning Horror

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Cheryl

I’m delighted to announce that a new publisher has joined the Wizard’s Tower store. Xoum Publishing is a fine Australian small press. They don’t publish a lot of SF&F, but what they do have is very impressive. Top of the … Continue reading →

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New Anthology – Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Cheryl

Over at the Wizard’s Tower website I have posted a Call for Submissions for Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion, a new anthology that I’m producing in collaboration with the BristolCon Foundation. This is what Colin Harvey would have called an … Continue reading →

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Ujima: Bea Hitchman, Kate Dunn, Edson Burton

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Cheryl

Yesterday’s Women’s Outlook show began with me interviewing local writer, Bea Hitchman. I first met Bea as part of the 2012 LGBT History Month activities, and have been looking forward to her book, Petite Mort, ever since. I’m delighted to … Continue reading →

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New In Store – Elsker

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Cheryl

We have a new paranormal romance book from Entranced in the store today. Elsker by ST Bende sounds like it is perfectly timed to cash in on the new Thor movie. So, ladies: Team Thor or Team Loki? Or possibly … Continue reading →

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BetweenTwo Thorns Review

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Cheryl

I’ve finally got around to doing a review of the Emma Newman books I read for last week’s radio show. The title says it is a review of Between Two Thorns, but actually it is more of a review of … Continue reading →

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Birthday Wishes

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Cheryl

Yes, it is that time of year again. The time at which I marvel that I have survived this long, given the murder and suicide rates for trans women. I am really very lucky indeed, and certainly would not be … Continue reading →

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Today On Ujima: Emma Newman, Roz Clarke, Becca Lloyd

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Cheryl

Paulette let me have a huge chunk of today’s Women’s Outlook show. Hopefully I did OK with it. I know I had some wonderful guests. In the first half hour I talk to Emma Newman about her Split Worlds novels. … Continue reading →

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Crane Wife Review

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Cheryl

I’ve written a review of the new Patrick Ness novel, The Crane Wife. The book is both beautiful and heart-rending. I hope that the review captures at least small fraction of that. You can read it here. There is stuff … Continue reading →

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The Patrick Ness Interview & Union Cup

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Cheryl

Last night’s edition of Shout Out is now available online. You can find their Listen Again service here. There are no direct links to shows, so make sure you look for April 11th. Alternatively, here’s the mp3. The interview starts … Continue reading →

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