smokingpen | March 2, 2009
Kim Harrison is, perhaps, one of my more favorite authors. The thing, though, isn’t that I enjoy her writing but I think she needs top expand what she is doing. With that said, I am somewhat excited that she is publishing a new book for YA’s. I look forward to reading it and now that [...]
smokingpen | November 11, 2008
For those that have never read my reviews of John Zakour’s books (Plutonium Blonde, Doomsday Brunette, Radioactive Redhead, Frost-Haired Vixen, and Blue-Haired Bombshell). Heck, I even interviewed the author. This is a writer I actually enjoy reading and even though I have (as yet) not gotten back to Frost-Haired Vixen (I promised to give it [...]
smokingpen | October 16, 2008
Well, I am working on a lack of sleep. I am also actually amazed that this lack of sleep is allowing me to plow through as much as I have been. Most of the lack comes as a response to Erin’s needs to sleep more since she does a lot of the heavy lifting when [...]
smokingpen | March 19, 2008
I recently put down ‘Red Mars’ by Kim Stanley Robinson. Good book. It explores the scientific theory, through a science fiction story, of what would need to take place in order for human-kind to travel to and eventually colonize Mars. The general plot of the book doesn’t sound all that interesting, and unless you are [...]
smokingpen | March 14, 2008
Kim Harrison has been writing the Rachel Morgan series of books for a while now. At least, it feels like a while. When I read the first book, having come across a sample chapter a la Amazon.com and her website, I bought the book and read it, enjoying every last word on every last page. [...]
smokingpen | March 13, 2008
Brandon Sanderson is the current heir apparent, or at least the one who will finish, Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series of books. Before he was selected by the late Robert Jordan’s wife, Harriet, to write the books, Sanderson had been carrying on his own writing work creating The Mistborn series, Elantris, and other [...]
smokingpen | March 10, 2008
World Book Day is a measure that is promoted in the United Kingdom and Ireland to promote reading to school age children. The outcome is that several prominent authors will write and then donate short novels (novellas really) to World Book Day so they can be published and then distributed to children who have been [...]
smokingpen | December 14, 2007
John Zakour starting writing the Zachary Nixon Johnson books with his writing partner Lawrence Ganem with a trilogy of books: The Plutonium Blonde, The Doomsday Brunette, and The Radioactive Redhead. After this trilogy, John Zakour took on the series as a solo writer, putting out The Frost-Haired Vixen. What caught my attention, with these books [...]
