News for July 7th 2010

Two new releases this month from Splashdown Books: The Duke's Handmaid by Caprice Hokstad (Fantasy Drama - Third Edition) and Legendary Space Pilgrims by Grace Bridges (Science Fiction/Allegory/Space Opera). Visit www.splashdownbooks.com/bookshop.html for more details and special prices direct from the publisher.

Guild member Ellen Maze, vampire genre writer extraordinaire, is the guest of honour at WhereTheMapEnds this month - be sure and check out her interview here: http://www.wherethemapends.com/Interviews/current_interview.htm

TitleTrakk gives us a preview of James Rubart's next novel, Book of Days, due out next January and already eagerly awaited: http://titletrakkbooknews.blogspot.com/2010/06/jim-rubarts-book-of-days-coming-in.html 

Variance Publishing announces a new release, Eurostorm by Payne Anderson. Find out more about that on the Thrillerblog: http://variancepublishing.blogspot.com/2010/06/eurostorm-hits-stores-rick-makes.html

Read TeenAge Magazine and Free Classic Sci-Fi

At TeenAge Magazine, written by and for teens, editor Bill Snodgrass comments on the visionary nature of science fiction in the article Science Fiction, Science Reality - Treknologies in our midst - On June 3, 1969, the last original episode of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek aired. Yet, reality took many years—decades, in truth—to catch up to his speculative vision of future technology. Many of these far forward thinking innovations—Treknologies—seen in the original series and the sequels that followed still, now thirty-six years later, remain on the cutting edge of society.

Also at TeenAge, check out Charlotte's Sword - new fantasy by JA Howe: The Troll Parade had gone well, it seemed, but what was that sound in the alley? Charlotte wanted to know. Just for protection, she yanked the sword off her mantelpiece -- wow, was it heavy! But that was all right. It wasn't like she'd be using it...until she ran into the poor guy being attacked!

Project Gutenberg offers a large online collection of science fiction classics online for free. Check out their bookshelf here.

Also, authors from Jeremy Robinson's Variance Publishing will be talking about their books on web radio: check out this post for the details.

Monday Allsorts

Today we have a great mix of different kinds of news:

Mindflights magazine has a new story for you to read - A Native Soul by Anne M. Pillsworth: Mriba goes against everything she believes about herself when she befriends the two human visitors to the Pikhren colony. Now her friends are dead, and she is left with the overwhelming task of rearing a human infant named Thomas.



Jeremy Robinson's company Variance Publishing now has a Facebook page, with book trailers, news, and blog feeds. Why not become a fan?

The Christian Contest site is featuring fantasy fiction during the month of February. Check back each week for a new book up for grabs. Enter today for a chance to win Kingdom's Dawn by Chuck Black.

And fantasy author Rick Barry is this month's special interview feature at http://www.acfw.com/featuredauthor.shtml.