Cirsova – The Bookhunter’s Apprentice
Sometimes you come across a story that’s perfectly fine, but just not to your tastes. The Bookhunter’s Apprentice is one such tale. It’s a bit of a heist tale set up when twin sorcerers do an intelligent and evil tome of lost knowledge dirty and pay the price. The titular...
Happy Independence Day!
Let’s celebrate Old Glory by talking about the glories of New Publishing. We’d better enjoy this holiday while we can – there’s no telling how many more we’ve got left. Specifically, we’ve got a couple of canaries in the old media’s Woke/Broke Coalmine to talk about. If you’ve ever...
Cirsova – Late to the Blurb Party
No that blog title is not a secret story only included on the copy of Cirsova provided to advertisers like me. It’s just the subject of this blogpost and an admission that I’ve been doing it all wrong. Throughout the whole of Volume One of Cirsova, The Magazine of...
The Great LibertyCon Book Sale
You’re almost out of time to catch up on an eclectic tribe of awesome! For cheap. With the LibertyCon Science Fiction Convention about to convene in Chattanooga, Tennessee, some attending authors and friends are offering a few of their most popular ebooks for only $0.99. For most books, the...
Cirsova – Born to Storm the Citadel of Mettathok
Author D.M. Ritzlin is one of the creative minds behind the Swords of Steel collection, which is billed as “written by members of such underground heavy metal bands as Manilla Road, Bal-Sagoth, Solstice, Cauldron Born, Twisted Tower Dire, and others.” Ritzlin certainly captures that ethos with a story of...
Cirsova – The Idol In The Sewers
A thief, strong-armed into stealing an idol from a subterranean inhuman stronghold, is the story of story cliché that has been done to death. Kenneth Gower breathes new life into this staple of sword and sorcery by not only moving the action underground but by putting the protagonist in the center...
Cirsova 2.1.2 – Atop the Cliffs of Ral-Gri
The second story in the first issue of the second volume of the first rate magazine Cirsova once more takes us to a remote corner of the earth where lurk things best left to slumber. Though I’m looking forward to reading Xavier Lastra’s The Elephant Idol, we’re going to power through this...
Cirsova: The Revenge!
The second volume of one of my favorite new anthology magazine…things…arrived some time ago, and it’s high time it got the proper reviewing that it so richly deserves. This second volume leads off with a new header – The Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense – and we’ll...
Andy the Talking Hedgehog
It’s hard to take adults who ironically like bad cinema very seriously. Over time one can’t help but notice a distinct pattern amongst the hard-core MST3K fanbase of people marking time until they die. Don’t get me wrong, in these jaded times it’s nice that people just like liking...
Not so Good Omens
Not impressed. Terry Pratchett has an impressive gift for stringing words together. The man could make the back of a cereal box interesting to read. His brain works in strange ways that follow clever paths, a trait that helps him paper over the thinness of his works’ overall plots and characters...