![]() ![]() I'm digging Álvaro Martínez Bueno's cover for the book, and the premise - a group of old friends get together for the holiday of a lifetime, find themselves in a lot of trouble - is right up my street.Īt the other end of the spectrum, I really enjoyed the brash goofiness of Peacemaker Tries Hard! #1 earlier this month and it's gonna be interesting to see where Kyle Starks and Steve Pugh take the series over the next few issues.įinally, a big shout out to DC for the inspired cover to G'nort's Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. ![]() Speaking of horror, I didn't read James Tynion IV's The Nice House on the Lake on its release a couple of years back, so the collected edition is high on my list this month. ![]() I'm also pleased to see The Joker miniseries get another witty cover and the tease that it contains "the most disturbing reveal of the year," is a sure-fire way to have me eagerly looking out for that issue. Knight Terrors continues to dominate DC's August solicitations, and I'm excited to see where this thing goes as it reaches the start of its grand finale with Knight Terrors: Night's End #1. ![]()
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They follow her to a small cottage where she tries to trick the occupant into letting her in. Abby can't believe a grandmother type can be rude-grandmothers are supposed to be nice. Suddenly the basement and Smithville are looking better and better! They run into a wrinkled grandmotherly old lady who is just rude. Everything is weirdly off and they have no way of getting back home. Jonah shows Abby how he knocked on the mirror and it began to shimmer and hiss and suddenly they are sucked into the ornate mirror and find themselves in a huge forest. ![]() ![]() He wakes his sister up and together they venture downstairs in the middle of the night. They live in a creepy old house where Jonah has discovered something quite strange in the basement. It is a great beginning full of fun and puns! Siblings Abby and Jonah have just moved cross country to Smithville, a small town that pales in comparison to Abby's beloved Chicago. Fresh, funny, and fairest of all, Whatever After: Fairest of All is book one in what appears to be a planned series. ![]() ![]() She is also a huge lover of football and an ardent supporter of West Ham United. Kaya loves to live a very balanced life and when she is not writing her novels she loves reading. Her favorite authors that have had a huge influence on her writing include the likes of Mo Hayder, Lynda La Plante and Martina Cole. Over the years, Kaya’s writing style has evolved as she gets influenced by the many books she has been reading. But it was not until she wrote her first full length novel when she was in her twenties that Kerry deemed herself an author.Īs a huge lover of crime fiction, especially anything written by a female author, she had a story ready to go for several years even as she debated on whether she was good enough as an author. She wrote her first book when she was just ten and kicked on from there. Kaya always loved writing and even as a very young girl she remembers that she used to write all manner of stories. ![]() She published “Barking Boy” her debut novel, in 2018. The author was raised on one of the most expansive council estates in the United Kingdom and it is from her experiences that she derives the characters and settings for her novels.Īside from her authorship, Kerry works a day job in a busy maternity department. She is best known for writing popular and gritty gangland novels based in Essex, where the thugs surprisingly have strong family dynamics. ![]() Kerry Kaya is a bestselling romance and mystery author from the United Kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the termination of the partnership between Dabel Brothers and Devil's Due, the graphic novel has been republished in various editions. Devil's Due published the complete limited series as a graphic novel in June 2004. Miller, produced by Roaring Studios (now Dabel Brothers Productions) and published by Image Comics and Devil's Due between August 2003 and May 2004. The story was later adapted into a six-issue comic book limited series by Ben Avery, drawn by Mike S. The first novella was originally published Augin the Legends anthology, edited by Robert Silverberg. A collection of the existing three novellas, with illustrations by Gary Gianni, was published as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on October 6, 2015. Three novellas have been published – The Hedge Knight (1998), The Sworn Sword (2003), and The Mystery Knight (2010) – and Martin has stated his intention to continue the series. They follow the adventures of "Dunk" (the future Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Ser Duncan the Tall) and "Egg" (the future King Aegon V Targaryen), some 90 years before the events of the novels. ![]() Martin, set in the world of his A Song of Ice and Fire novels. ![]() Tales of Dunk and Egg is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vaughn-James had a varied career as a multimedia artist, working in forms as different as painting and novel writing-but his most important innovations came in a medium that combined pictures and words. Ballard, who was a child in a Japanese internment camp during the war, Vaughn-James acquired a taste for post-apocalyptic architecture: the depopulated and denatured concrete monuments that will survive even atomic desolation. As he said on more than one occasion, his birth in Bristol on December 5, 1943, occurred “during an air raid.” The visual landscape of his childhood, he wrote, consisted of “abandoned airfields, weed-covered bomb-sites, enigmatic bits of shell-casings, helmets, rusting away in woods and fields.” Like the slightly older J. Martin Vaughn-James was born amid the apocalypse and never recovered. ![]() ![]() ![]() He moves into a duplex that shares a backyard with his neighbor. He’s a chef who owns his own restaurant and has an overprotective mother. He loved his wife, but her admitting multiple infidelities and coming home with divorce papers sealed the deal on that relationship. Nick is a newly divorced good guy who married young and is now single for the first time since he was seventeen years old. I mean gay for you x 2, how does one resist that? ![]() I know Jen and Amy have recommended this author on FV before, and I have several books off her backlist sitting on my Kindle all ready to go, but it wasn’t until I saw that her newest release was a double gay for you romance that I decided to finally sit my butt down and give her a try. This week Angela recommends: Crossroads by Riley Hart Each week our Fiction Vixen reviewers will tell you about a book they think you need to read ASAP. ![]() ![]() Later my wife, Annetje, and I lived for seven years on a houseboat in Florida while raising our kids. ![]() As an adult I spent some time in the navy, and lived on the South Shore of Boston when I was going to grad school and teaching art to high school students. The time I spent next to the Chesapeake Bay is one I remember especially fondly. His final Jacky Faber book, Wild Rover No More, was published posthumously in late 2014.Īuthor's Comment: Growing up as an army brat, I often lived by the sea. They eventually settled in the small fishing village of Corea on the coast of Maine, where Meyer wrote novels, painted and operated an art gallery with his wife until his death from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2014. Here he enrolled in Boston University's Master of Fine Arts program and received his MFA in Painting in 1973. ![]() ![]() Navy during the Vietnam War era, Meyer married his college sweetheart and they spent a year in New York City before settling in Scituate, Massachusetts. He later studied English Literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville where he met his future wife, Annetje Lawrence. Meyer spent his early years moving between Germany and the US due to his father's military service. Meyer was the acclaimed author of the Bloody Jack adventure series, which follows the exploits of an impetuous heroine who has fought her way up from the squalid streets of London to become an adventurer of the highest order.īorn in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1942, Louis A. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the very first page of The Selection, this #1 New York Times bestselling series has captured readers' hearts and swept them away on a captivating journey. But as the competition approaches its end and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose-and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants. America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown-or to Prince Maxon's heart. ![]() ![]() And now, the time has come for one winner to be chosen. The Selection changed the lives of thirty-five girls forever. Published by HarperCollins on May 6th 2014 Also by this author: The Selection, The Heir (The Selection, #4), The Crown (The Selection, #5)Īlso in this series: The Selection, The Heir (The Selection, #4), The Crown (The Selection, #5) ![]() ![]() ![]() ~Library Journal, Classic Returns section When it comes to vintage sf, Jules Rules!" This first English translation also includes numerous illustrations, textual notes, and other nice extras. Writing at a time when many of the world's top powers were busy building canals to link major bodies of water, Verne goes a step further and weaves a tale of a sea being created in the Sahara desert. "This 1904 volume capped Verne's remarkable career (he died in 1905). ![]() Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The story raises a host of concerns - environmental, cultural, and political. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. ![]() First English edition of a classic Verne novel. ![]() |