![]() ![]() ![]() *I am aware of this essay’s anthropocentric focus, which merits this disclaimer: it is most important to remember and respect the natural history of the book's physical matter after all, the majority of the matter came from something once living - the tree, the cow, the lamb, the plant. As we become conscious of the many hearts, minds, and hands it took for a book's production and dissemination, the community* appears via the book. ![]() In this reality, we should consider ourselves more as "users" of the book as opposed to "readers," as the bibliographic scholar Sarah Werner states in her book Studying Early Printed Books. While this alchemical process of turning rags or pulp into connections and imagined environments can be a welcome and beautiful kind of magic, in reality, the book is an object and one with many creators, craftspeople, and handlers (the historical study of the book as object is called bibliography). The book - its paper, its design, its entire history - can disappear as the mechanical process of turning a page becomes a nearly unconscious activity, like breathing or riding a bike. Books can also connect us with the creator, sometimes so deeply that we feel as if we are in direct communication with them. ![]()
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![]() Atticus will need all the luck of the Irish and more if he’s going to stay alive. ![]() ![]() On top of all that, Aenghus has a direct line to the firepower of hell. His lawyer is literally a bloodsucking vampire, and he has a loyal Irish wolfhound with opinions about poodles.īut Aenghus Óg has recruited Fir Bolgs, a former king of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and a coven of witches to help bring down the Druid, and the local police are cooperating as well. He does have some small hope of survival: The Morrigan is on his side, and so is Brighid, First Among the Fae. The Irish gods who want to kill him are after an enchanted sword he stole in a first-century battle, and when they find him managing an occult bookshop in Tempe, Arizona, the last of the ancient Druids doesn’t want to uproot his life again he just wants everything to end one way or the other, but preferably the way in which he can continue to enjoy fish and chips. Dust jacket and frontispiece by Galen Dara.įans of tongue-in-cheek humor, fast dialogue, and Oberon the Wolfhound will be pleased to hear Subterranean Press is publishing a limited edition of Hounded, Book One of the Iron Druid Chronicles, featuring Atticus O'Sullivan the 2,000-year-old Druid and his wolfhound Oberon in their first adventure.Ītticus O’Sullivan has been running for more than two thousand years and he’s tired of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our heroine is of mixed race, half French- half Filipino, adding a much needed shot of diversity in the romance category. I loved the combination of sights, sounds, flavors and cultures mixed into this story. However, a stunning revelation could throw ice cold water on the couple’s fiery passion.Įxcruciating suspense, and foreign intrigue ensues, leaving Maddie and Aidan’s future hanging in the balance… However, when Aidan shows up in Singapore, the sparks reignite, big time, spawning a super intense affair. She hasn’t seen him in the couple of months since they shared a romantic interlude. However, she is having trouble getting Aidan, her best friend’s future brother-in-law, out her mind. Maddie is enjoying every minute of her life in Singapore, while working in a public relations firm. Singapore Fling by Maida Malby is a 2019 EOT publication.Įxotic locations, high drama, intrigue and sizzling hot romance! ![]() ![]() Nicole has published a handful of poet chapbooks, diary excerpts and memoirs with a slew of additional works planned for release from early 2019 on. ![]() Today, Nicole and her fiancee’, run what has become a fully operative creative services & marketing firm for authors, artists and the like, and Nicole is the founder & editor of several literary and creative lifestyle publications, in both print and digital formats. She was forced to drop her college courses half-way through to her degree, as she began a new, sober life in New York City. In April of 2010, Nicole lost 95% of her eyesight in her right eye, due to injecting a poisoned bag of heroin, and was shipped to Manhattan’s Bellevue hospital 1,600 miles away from her city at the time, where she had been attending an Art Institute for Photo-Journalism. She has lived in five regions nationally, including South Florida and New York City, and has always been a self-described poetic, nomadic, creative soul and enthusiast of a variety of artistic mediums, but considers creative writing her number one form of art and feels everything else is just an extension of that passion. Born in a tiny town bordering Canada only five minutes from the legendary falls, Nicole says she had an eye for beauty at a young age, and that included poetry. Nicole D’Settēmi is a 36-year-old creative writer, poet, and visual artist from Niagara Falls, New York. ![]() Social Media Marketing for Music Artists (2). ![]() About Indie Artist GO (Global Operation). ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the two sisters undertake a risky adventure that backfires and as a result they’re pressed into a position of having to leave the Island of Janda Bai so as not to draw unfavourable attention. Muna finds herself helping in the household in other ways. Sakti is the only one of the sisters who presents with any magical ability and is trained as such. The two eventually fall under the protection and tutelage of a local witch known as Mak Genggang. They both have no memories of who they are, where they’re from, or anything else of significance basically, other than they know they’re sisters. The opening sequence brings to us two sisters, stranded on a beach on the island of Janda Baik, Muna and Sakti. I think it’s a really good idea to be honest although it’s also a little bit fraught in that you’re not getting the characters you already came to know so at the same time it’s something of a gamble. Well, it does follow events from the first book, and some of the characters are present here, but we follow a different story and focus on different people. ![]() To be clear, this is not really a sequel as such. I think if I was pressed I would have to own that the first in the series caught my attention in quite a dramatic fashion and made it somewhat difficult to compete with but I think the True Queen does a really good job as a follow up. The True Queen is the second in the Sorcerer Royal series by Zen Cho and it’s a book that I really enjoyed. ![]() |