B Reviews / Book ReviewsArizona / Conspiracy / dragons / First-Person / futuristic / genetics / thrillerNo Comments
Noah Parker, a newly minted Ph.D., is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He’s eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian’s feature product: living, breathing dragons. Although highly specialized dragons have been ... more >
Publishing NewsConspiracy / security10 Comments
First, this fascinating article: Real Life Cone of Silence? Your next tinfoil hat will won’t be made of tinfoil. A small company called Conductive Composites out of Utah has developed a flexible material — thin and tough enough for wallpaper or woven fabric — that can keep electronic emissions in ... more >
Publishing Newsantitrust / Apple / Beverly Jenkins / Conspiracy / copyright infringement / ebook pricing / intellectual property rights / plagiarism / writer's conferences13 Comments
Don’t Do This Ever (an advice column for writers): Plagiarism Warning edition – Laura Harner has apparently “written” 75 books in the past five years. I quoted “written” because some of them, at least, appear to be versions of m/f books by Becky McGraw and Opal Carew (and perhaps others?) that change the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsancient-Rome / Conspiracy / Historical / Roman-Britain / War / Military22 Comments
Ariantes is a Sarmatian, a barbarian warrior-prince, uprooted from his home and customs and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact struck with the emperor Marcus Aurelius to ensure the future of Sarmatia, Ariantes and his troop of accomplished horsemen are sent to ... more >
C+ Reviewsadoption / Conspiracy / Dutton / estranged family / Fantasy / Penguin / Serial-KillerComments Off on REVIEW: Omens by Kelley Armstrong
Dear Ms. Armstrong, I’ve been a fan of your work since the very beginning. Some books work better for me than others, but that’s to be expected from an author with a sizeable backlist. When your Otherworld series ended last year, I wondered what you’d do next. I knew you’d ... more >
B ReviewsConspiracy / Private-investigator / romantic-suspense6 Comments
Dear Ms. Rose: I don’t know exactly why I stopped reading your books. I used to love them and recommend them to readers frequently. It may have been the move to hardcover but whatever the reason was, I don’t think it was related to your writing. “No One Left to ... more >