Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.

'War Stories'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


sj - Jul 01, 2014 10:11:42 am PDT #22476 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Yay, Jilli!


EpicTangent - Jul 01, 2014 10:32:05 am PDT #22477 of 28344
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Very cool, Jilli!


hippocampus - Jul 02, 2014 6:36:57 am PDT #22478 of 28344
not your mom's socks.

Awesome, Jilli!


-t - Jul 06, 2014 6:00:16 pm PDT #22479 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot, one of my favorite vampire novels ever, has just been republished by Valancourt Books

Thanks for that, Jilli. I'd never heard of it and I'm really glad to have read it now.

Nice job on the foreword, too. Those seem tricky and yours is a good one.


Atropa - Jul 06, 2014 6:47:28 pm PDT #22480 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Thank you so much! I agonized a bit over it, because it's a book I adore.


-t - Jul 08, 2014 3:06:08 pm PDT #22481 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Of course, now that I've read the book I need to re-read the foreword. And then re-read the book.

But first...

EEEEEE I have new Skullduggery Pleasant to read! Not the novel, of course, but new-to-me (possibly legit not published before, I'm not sure) short stories. Yay!


meara - Jul 08, 2014 4:56:57 pm PDT #22482 of 28344

Anyone read the new outlander book? I had to re-read the previous one because I couldn't remember most of it. I'm wondering how many more books she's planning--there are several open plot lines.


Steph L. - Jul 09, 2014 5:15:25 am PDT #22483 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

We're on vacation, and the house we're in has Good Omens on its shelf. I've never read it, so I snagged it. Damn, it is hilarious!

EEEEEE I have new Skullduggery Pleasant to read! Not the novel, of course, but new-to-me (possibly legit not published before, I'm not sure) short stories. Yay!

I forgot to order it before we left for vacation. Maybe if I order it now, it'll be waiting for me when we get home.

Tim is reading Last Stand of Dead Men (finally) while we're on vacation. I've been bugging him to read it so that I can share my trauma.


Jessica - Jul 09, 2014 2:58:06 pm PDT #22484 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If y'all don't already know, the current Humble eBook Bundle is all sci-fi right now - [link]


hippocampus - Jul 16, 2014 5:54:35 am PDT #22485 of 28344
not your mom's socks.

I love that humble bundle.

Weightless Books is dropping the latest issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies early - I'm completely biased, but I like this issue very much. The stories will be online, free, later this month. [link]

If you're a fan of Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, I'm interviewing him today for the Cooking the Books podcast (shiny new logo is by Raq!)... if you want to email me questions, profile addy is good.

DH is still reading The Goblin Emperor and loving it. He reads slow.