Tag: Publishers Weekly

  • There Are Two Kinds of Book Reviews (and Not the Kinds You Think)

    There Are Two Kinds of Book Reviews (and Not the Kinds You Think)

    Authors have a love-hate relationship with book reviews. Some reviews make you light up and glow. Others make you feel like you’re dying an agonizing death. Reading reviews of your own books is fraught enough to make even the toughest writer quiver. But what most people don’t realize is that there are actually two distinctly…

  • “Immensely engaging.” –San Francisco Book Review

    This is great! Just received some fantastic coverage in the San Francisco Book Review: “It Happened One Doomsday is a curious beast: a rom-com with an apocalyptic bent. [Dru’s] posse of supportive female friends is both hilarious and badass, offering great banter along with impressive superpowers. She’s also supported by an interesting magic system and a bookish background…

  • Publishers Weekly: “Fascinating.”

    So there I was in Target, shopping for chicken and peanut butter, when something terrifying popped up on my phone. Publishers Weekly had just reviewed my new book. Not just online, but in print. I froze. My heart started pounding. A cold jolt of adrenaline shot through me. Why? Because first off, in the world…

  • Game of Cages: Harry Connolly guests on Sci Fi Bookshelf

    Harry Connolly is the author of Child of Fire, one of Publishers Weekly’s “Best 100 Books of 2009.”  It’s an urban fantasy packed with sorcery, monsters, a gripping mystery and a tough-guy hero in over his head.  Now, Harry Connolly is back with another Twenty Palaces novel, Game of Cages, which hits shelves today.  I…