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NANP: Making The Characters Fit
Posted by AJ
The final guest on the blog for this edition of Names: A New Perspective is author Bryony Pearce. Her second novel, The Weight of Souls, is coming out tomorrow in the US/CAN from Strange Chemistry and has already seen a UK release on the 1st of this month. The book is coming out when Strange Chemistry will soon be celebrating its first full year and it is definitely an exciting time for their various books. I’ve been interested in The Weight of Souls for quite a while now. I love the premise, I love the cover, and as I said in my cover round-up post from yesterday, Strange Chemistry has been putting out some great fiction since their launch, and this book looks set to continue that excellent trend. Today, here’s Bryony talking about the names in her book and what their relevance to the narrative is.
The Cover Art Mega-Post Part 2
Posted by AJ
Two weeks ago I did the first of these kind of posts, which can be found here. There were some really fun-looking books on that list that I would love to read (all of them) this year, but given how these kind of things work out for me, especially of late, that is probably not going to happen any time soon. My only consolation is that these covers are so bloody damn good!
Hope you liked the previous post and that you’ll like this one as well.
Posted in 2013 Reading Challenge, Book Lists, Book News, Challenges, News
Tags: 2013 Reading Challenge, Age of Godpunk, Arcanum, Bantam Dell, Book Lists, Book News, Bryony Pearce, Challenges, Circle of Fire, Crown of Vengeance, David Gibbins, David J. Williams, Del Rey, Fortune's Pawn, Francis Knight, Ghosts, High Fantasy, Ingrid Jonach, James Gunn, james lovegrove, James Mallory, Joe Schrieber, Kate Locke, Keri Arthur, Kim Stanley Robinson, Last To Rise, Long Live The Queen, Lucas Books, magic, Mark S. Williams, Maul - Lockdown, Mercedes Lackey, Mystery, News, Orbit Books, Paradox, Pharaoh, Poltergeeks, Rachel Bach, Random House, Rojan Dizon, Rosie Best, Science Fiction, Sean Cummings, Shaman, Simon Morden, Solaris Books, Space Opera, Star Wars, Strange Chemistry, Student Bodies, The Dragon Prophecy, The Eidolon, The Immortal Empire, The Weight of Souls, Thriller, Tor Books, Transcendental, Transformers, Transformers - Retribution, Urban Fantasy, When The World Was Flat (And We Were In Love), Witches
Names: A New Perspective Part 3
Posted by AJ
The last two weeks have been spent in a mad scramble to get people on board for the next phase of Names: A New Perspective. I really should have gotten this done a month ago, but I kept getting sidetracked by other things (Game of Thrones, finishing edits on Project Dharmayoddha, reading a ton of graphic novels, catching up on my monthly reading, etc), that it just didn’t happen on time.
But, I have the new schedule done and all worked out, and my thanks to everyone who has agreed to participate. The last few guest posts that have gone up have not been mentioned in any of the schedules, since I was mostly just winging it all, but now everything is set for the most part. This is the schedule that I will be referring to in the coming weeks, and I will also be expanding on this one as I contact yet more authors and bring them on board.
Here they are:
Posted in Debut Authors Guest Series, Guest Posts
Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Amy McCulloch, Andy Smillie, Angel Exterminatus, Beneath The Flesh, Bruce Cordell, Bryony Pearce, C. L. Werner, Christian Schoon, Cold Magic, DAW Books, Deathwatch, Debut Authors Guest Series, Django Wexler, Dragonfly Falling, E. J. Swift, Elizabeth Bear, Empire In Black and Gold, Epic Fantasy, Evie Manieri, Fantasy, Flesh of Cretacia, Forgotten Realms, Francis Knight, Generation V, Gini Koch, Graham McNeill, Guest Posts, Horus Heresy, James Maxey, Jean Johnson, Joe Parrino, John C. Scott, Kate Elliott, King's Dragon, M L Brennan, Names, Names A New Perspective, Nathan Long, Orbit Books, Patrick Hester, Priests of Mars, Robbie MacNiven, Science Fiction, Scott Lynch, Shadows of the Apt, Solaris Books, Space Opera, Spinner of Lies, Stephanie Saulter, Steve Parker, Sword of the Gods, Tau, The meaning of Names, The Patient Hunter, The Thousand Names, The Weight of Souls, Urban Fantasy, Warhammer 40000, Wizards of the Coast, Young Adult