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WEEKLY BOOK BUZZ
Dave Duncan has been one of the best and most underrated Fantasy writers for over 20 years. He’s a guy whose work is remarkably consistent and this week we review his latest novel, “Speak to the Devil” which begins a new series. Also in the review section is a scorching hot new pin-up art book from the good people at SQP Inc.
Mercy Thompson: Moon Called Derek Ruiz [IDW Graphic Novel]
Mercedes “Mercy” Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington . She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy’s next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she’s fixing a bus for a vampire. This is the world of Mercy Thompson, one that looks a lot like ours but is populated by those things that go bump in the night.
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INTERVIEW WITH FANTASY BOOK PUBLISHER JASON M. WALTZ
For a few years now publisher and editor Jason M. Waltz of Rogue Blades Entertainment has been bringing the best of heroic adventure fiction to fans of the fantastic. The most recent release from Rogue Blades Entertainment isDemons: A Clash of Steel Anthology, which contains numerous tales of sword-slinging action and demonic adversaries.
Recently editor Waltz agreed to an online interview, to answer a few questions about the past, present and future of Rogue Blades Entertainment.
What drove you to be a book editor? And why books instead of magazines?
‘Fell’ may be the better verb to use. ‘Drove’ implies that I had some choice in the matter. Rather, it seems each step that led me to being a book editor fell in place before me, sometimes as the result of my pursuit and sometimes just because I was running too hard to avoid it.
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RICK MOODY ON KURT VONNEGUT, HORROR FLICKS & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Rick Moody’s The Four Fingers of Death begins by introducing us to Montese Crandall, a writer who’s achieved fame for his one-sentence stories, like, “Go get some eggs, you dwarf.” Crandall is one of several narrators populating Moody’s hulking latest, and it’s not long before Crandall’s hired to perform a literary about-face and write a lengthy novelization of the 1960s horror film The Crawling Hand.
Contemporary literature, particularly of the micro-fiction variety, has been on Moody’s mind; he recently published a story via Twitter with Electric Literature. Yet it’s not the only subject on which Moody, long a critic of American culture and politics, trains his satirical sabre in the The Four Fingers of Death .
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