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Reviews and such

Kelland has been nominated for Dark Scribe Magazine’s Black Quill Awards! Click here to see the full list of nominees and register to vote! Also check out the glowing review of Kelland and the interview with Paul G. Bens in … Continue reading

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Hoosier Life & Casualty by Ian Woollen

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Just ask Elvis Scurvine. A brief joyride in a borrowed truck turns into a month-long rollercoaster with the woman he never wanted to meet. Her unorthodox views on health insurance, a failed … Continue reading

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Lots of activity!

Terence Hawkins has guest blogs up at historical-fiction.com, Historical Boys, and Writerly So, an extract of The Rage of Achilles at The Historical Novel Review, and a review of The Rage of Achilles at 300spartanswarriors.com‘s blog. Sybil Baker has an … Continue reading

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The Rage of Achilles by Terence Hawkins

Blood. Guts. Pride. Wrath. The ancient clash of armies outside the walls of Troy is a cornerstone of Western literature. In The Rage of Achilles, Terence Hawkins brilliantly reimagines that titanic encounter. His stunningly original telling captures the brutality of … Continue reading

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Upcoming Appearance by Paul Bens

Paul Bens will be signing Kelland on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at A Different Light Bookstore, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. Full details at the A Different Light Bookstore blog.

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Life Plan Writeups

The Life Plan has a new review out in Midwest Book Review (fifth one down), and Sybil Baker herself is one of the featured writers in the Chattanooga CityScope’s A Passion for Writing article.

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Kelland Review

A review of Kelland just went up on the Dark Discoveries Magazine blog.

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Closed for the weekend!

I’m getting married Saturday, and everyone who is involved with Casperian Books and local will be heading up to Tahoe for the wedding sometime tomorrow, so between about 10 a.m. Friday, October 2nd, and Monday morning, October 5th, there will … Continue reading

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Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis

We are pleased to announce the release of the fifth book in the Administration Series, Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis. It is rather fitting, we think, that we somehow managed to schedule this release date for Banned Books Week ;-) … Continue reading

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Excitement Abounds

Seneca Wood has made the Entertainment Weekly Must List! OK, so it’s the extended online version, but still! Next stop: the cover of the Rolling Stone…just kidding ;-)

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Best-Laid Plans

Sometime between the time I left for the gym Saturday morning at 8:00 and returned from the Farmer’s Market at 11:00, our Internet connection went down–and stayed down until I worked one hour of hi-tech magic around 10:30 p.m. because … Continue reading

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Book, books, books

Getting back to reading briefly, the New York Times is doing a poll to see what people are reading on the subway. The results are here and the accompanying article is here. Or you could even take the poll (if … Continue reading

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Read an excerpt from Kelland by Paul G. Bens Jr.

An excerpt from Paul G. Bens Jr.’s novel Kelland is now available at Velvet Mafia.

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Announcing Our Fall 2009 List

Our fall releases kick off today with Paul G. Bens Jr.’s Kelland, a novel that spans genres as it weaves together the stories of four seemingly unrelated characters that are connected by a mysterious being called Kelland. On October 1st, … Continue reading

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Links

Curt Smith has a guest blog titled On Trances and Other Gifts up at Flash Fiction.net. And Paul G Bens and Kelland keep on making the rounds, most recently with a very flattering review at Edge, an interview at Small … Continue reading

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On Reading

A couple of years ago on a flight from Toronto to London, I was sitting next to an acquisitions editor for a very large publisher, who struck up a conversation with me over the book I was reading at the … Continue reading

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Press!

The fall release season is almost upon us, and we’re kicking off the positive press with a lengthy and detailed review of Kelland and interview with Paul G. Bens at Edge (warning: contains some spoilers!), and a shorter review at … Continue reading

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Upcoming Appearances by Gary Clites

Gary has two appearances scheduled for later this month: August 22nd & 23rd, between 12 and 6:30 p.m at Bayfest – North Beach Boardwalk – North Beach, MD, in the Meet the Author tent between 1st and 2nd Streets. August … Continue reading

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SPF Expo 2009

Terence Hawkins, whose novel “The Rage of Achilles” we are publishing this fall, will be attending the SPF Expo 2009 on Saturday July 18, 2009, and Sunday July 19, 2009, from 12:00pm – 6:00pm at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie … Continue reading

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