“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
I need to get posting on here a bit more and getting on track with my reading is one way of doing this. I am in a bit of a reading slowdown (I won’t say slump) I am currently reading: I said this year I would stick to one Audio, one Sci-Fi, and finally one…
It’s that time of the year and I have received my Inkstone subscription box. This one is the limited edition of The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. I love the Inkstone cover and the naked hardback has a lovely design in foil, they do an amazing job of producing lovely books. Blurb from the…
I got an email not long ago offering me a box of stories extra box as an offer, so given that I have a book-buying problem I couldn’t resist, so I bought it. I do have another on the way but this one was pretty good. These boxes are always a gamble as you just…
Richie Billing is a British author from Liverpool, once a Lawyer he gave it all up to bring you tales from Fantasy worlds. I first found Richie when I bought The Fantasy Writers Handbook, a brilliant reference book for any aspiring fantasy writer, he has had other works published but his debut novel is Pariah’s…
Gareth Brown is a Scottish author and Book of Doors is his first published novel. The Book of Doors is about Cassie Andrews who comes into possession of a magical book, an unusual and mysterious book that opens up Cassie’s life to adventure and danger. But the Book of Doors isn’t the only special book…
I am in the process of reading through Neal Asher’s series of books so there will be plenty of posts in here for them. So, I don’t want to repeat his bio each time as I assume you will get tired of reading it. Neal is an amazing British Science Fiction author with a massive…
Brandon Sanderson is a writing machine, the sheer amount of books he gets through is amazing and in the last few years he has become one of my favorite Fantasy authors, two shelves of my library are his books and I will soon need to move to a third. Dalinar Kholin has challenged the evil…
Last year I went to Fantasycon a convention hosted by the British Fantasy Society. (post here) and I loved it. From meeting authors, buying soooo many books, lots of them signed copies, and visiting the amazing panels and talks it was a fantastic weekend. This year it is in Chester and I have my ticket…
Inkstone Books is a website for selling Science Fiction & Fantasy books, a great service for getting collectible amazing looking books. I was on the waiting list for this service for quite a while and recently was offered a spot, I snapped up the chance to get these books. It does cost £24.99 a quarter…
I recently signed back up for the subscription service from A Box of Stories. Their mission is to save as many books as possible from landfill. It costs £24.99 (frequency depending, I chose quarterly) According to the website, 77 million books a year in the UK are destroyed, and 83% of them are pulped before…
