The launch of a new SF series!
Space opera
Print release date June 1
NOW available in Kindle/Kindle Unlimited.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Off the Bookshelf: BLACK ORCHID, by Neil Gaiman
with Dave McKean
Weeks ago, I indulged and hit Half Price Books and bought a huge handful of anything I could find by Neil Gaiman. This is the first one I've been able to read, between revising books for re-release and reading a lot of books to judge for a published novel contest (and I can't review THOSE books because we're not allowed to talk about the books we read until after the winners are announced, just so you know ...) and other projects.
Oh, the GLORY of being able to just lie down and read for an hour or two. For FUN.
You'd think with all the shelter in place and stay home orders I'd have more time to read, don't you?
NOPE!
BLACK ORCHID is a new kind of superhero. Kind of. I don't see the current Black Orchid flying around the city fighting crime, because she doesn't allow violence or killing ... although as she discovers in the course of the story, it's hard to find a place where hate doesn't intrude. She's been tainted by the memories of other lives, the lives that gave birth to her, so when she finds paradise she can't be satisfied there.
A sad, lovely, thought-provoking, and sometimes mind-bending story. Mad geniuses and greedy, powerful, evil men and sadists and mentally damaged, and souls wrapped in new kinds of bodies and the dream of saving the rainforests ... there's just so MUCH in this story. Plus the jarring little dips into the darkness of Gotham and Batman and Lex Luthor and Arkham Asylum. *shudder*
Essentially, a heroine called Black Orchid is caught and killed, but when she dies some of her memories transfer to a new Black Orchid, who awakens to a quest of exploration, seeking answers, a reason for being, and hope for the future. If the cruel and greedy and psychotic will allow her. And that's about all I can tell you without giving away too much.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Off the Bookshelf: GOLDEN IN DEATH, by J.D. Robb
Dallas and Roarke are back. Combining their widely divergent backgrounds and viewpoints and talents to track down murderers and bring justice for their victims.
Never has a cold-hearted, arrogant, self-righteous, entitlement-attitude slimebag needed to be caught and punished, and have his face shoved in his mistakes like the villain in this latest installment. His assumption that he's too smart to be caught, and his cold-hearted treatment of anyone who is no longer useful in his schemes, or who might become weak spots and liabilities, just makes it all the more satisfying when he finally falls.
A vendetta going back years provides the motivation for a series of cold-hearted, calculated deliveries of golden eggs filled with a toxic substance that kills its victims quickly and painfully. The worst part in all this is that the dead aren't the people the killer has set out to punish for denying him what he wanted and what he thought he was entitled to have. He kills to punish the people who love them, to make them suffer.
Dallas is on the case with her loyal team of friends and allies, and puts everything on the line to beat the clock and find the murderer before the next victim receives a mysterious package containing death. The byplay among characters and the continuing growth of the many relationships always satisfy. Worth waiting for, every time.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
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