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April 11, 2022

REVIEW: Carry On (Mysterious Powers Book 1) by Celia Lake

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsalternate England / class differences / Conspiracy / Fantasy / Historical / Magic / Mysterious Powers series / nurse / Soldier / War / Military / World War I4 Comments

Enjoy this kind and gentle historical fantasy romance set in the magical community of Great Britain during the Great War. Elen has a nurse’s hands. Sent home from the Front after a injury leaves her with ongoing headaches, Elen is desperate to do her part for the War effort. Assigned ... more >

January 8, 2021

REVIEW: Domesticating Dragons by Dan Koboldt

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsArizona / Conspiracy / dragons / First-Person / futuristic / genetics / thrillerComments Off on REVIEW: Domesticating Dragons by Dan Koboldt

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 >

November 8, 2015

Silence, Stupidity, Security and bonus Staph Infection

IAM JSONPublishing 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 >

October 30, 2015

Friday News: Two plagiarism cases, Apple appeals to SCOTUS, and Beverly Jenkins’s “writing vitamins”

JanetPublishing 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 >

January 23, 2015

REVIEW: Island of Ghosts by Gillian Bradshaw

JayneB 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 >

August 20, 2013

REVIEW: Omens by Kelley Armstrong

JiaC+ 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 >

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