Ty Merrick isn’t exactly a good person. She’s more likely to steal evidence from crime scenes than bag it, she complains (a lot) and seems to have a serious grudge against the world. She’s also not exactly a lycanthrope, but one day after falling unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning she wakes up and something has changed…
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Apex Digest recently made the jump to an online magazine, raising the pay rates and making content free to readers. The new format puts out a story and a series of articles and columns each week, new content every Sunday.
This week’s fiction offering is a horror tale, Andrew Porter’s “In the Seams”. Part Appalachian thriller and part Lovecraft mythos its science fiction elements are debatable, but the story is a solid one. It centers on a pair of coal miners, excavating one of the richest veins in local history, only to discover a large number of strange fossils in the mineral itself. Scientific curiosity and a drive to be more than “the coal miners who discovered the fossils” to the annals of history lead the pair to get far too involved in uncovering what should remain buried.
It’s nice to see a story that’s both local, and doesn’t portray the region like a bunch of hicks or greedy, Earth plundering creeps. Porter manages to make what’s practically in my back yard into a near-exotic local, rich with a dark history.
Anita Blake thought she’d seen the last of her fiance, Richard, when she ran into the arms of another man after watching Richard eat a man. But her loyalty to the alpha of the St. Louis werewolf pack runs deep, so when his brother calls at 3am to beg for Anita’s help, she can’t say no… Full review at MonsterLibrarian.com
Anita Blake has quite a reputation. The Lunatic Café, book four in her ongoing adventures, thrusts the necromancer and vampire slayer into a battle between Marcus, the sadistic and ruthless alpha of the St. Louis werewolf pack, and his challenger—her fiancé Richard…
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24
Jul
Book two in the popular Dresden Files series pits wizard Harry Dresden against supernatural street gangs, an Internal Affairs investigation, secretive FBI agents, the mob boss of Chicago, a cursed philanthropist, and his non-human fiancée…
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It says “Browse this book” but the whole thing is available for free to promote the third in the series coming out soon.
22
Jul
Once again GUD is hading out free samples from their upcoming Issue #3. My sample story is “Lacerta – Named by Johannes Hevelius” by J.M. McDermott.
I was a little disappointed, because it’s a poem, and I am horribly picky about the poetry I enjoy. However, the poem reminded me strongly of “Saturn in G Minor” by Stephen Kotowych (Writers of the Future volume 23), altogether not a bad thing as the story didn’t strike me as hard as some of the fiction near it, but has stuck with me more than tales from that volume that I liked more.
This short, short poem captures the stars and the song of poetry, and damned if it isn’t a little bit sexy.
20
Jul
This is Vincent’s second book starring Faythe Saunders, one of the only female werecats in the U.S. Faythe is training to be an enforcer for her Pride. After cleaning up the discarded body of a stray, Faythe and her boyfriend Marc return to the Pride’s ranch to discover the corpse was not one of a kind…