Tag: fantasy


  • The Prousting of Axle
    Day 1 of the Veins Blog Tour

    If you’ve been thinking about reading Veins, now’s the time to grab a copy. For the next five days, the ebook edition will be on sale for $0.99 at Fantasist Enterprises, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. To coincide with the sale, I’ll be doing a series of guest blogs and events at some of my favorite websites, starting…

  • More Highlights from Stories @ Riley’s

    So much to do . . . so little time! If you live in the western Pennsylvania area, the next few days are going to offer something for everyone: the world-premier comedy A New Death at The Throughline Theatre in Lawrenceville (currently running through July 26), the Confluence science fiction convention in Mars (July 25-27),…

  • Randall Silvis:
    One of the Writers on Writing @ Riley’s

    The first in a series of profiles on some of the writers being featured at this month’s Writers on Writing @ Riley’s. Hailed as “a masterful storyteller” by the New York Times Book Review, Randall Silvis is the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction in various genres. A former contributing writer…

  • Veins: Book One – The Cycle Continues

    Early next week, Veins: Book One of the Veins Cycle (Fantasist Enterprises, 2008), will make its long awaited debut in ebook format. It’s going to be quite an edition, retaining all the original illustrations from the printed book, plus some bonus material in support of the upcoming ebook release of Vipers (coming June 11) and the…

  • Have Stories: Will Travel

    Continuing the tradition of the traveling bard, the 21st Century Scop will be hitting the road this week, heading off to England to give readings at the University of Brighton on Wednesday, October 30 (5:30 PM), and then at the World Fantasy Convention’s Reading Café on Saturday, November 2 (12:30 PM). If you’re going to…

  • Book City

    I sometimes get the feeling that we book people are citizens of a kind of portable municipality, a diffused city that reforms around various conventions, conferences, festivals, symposiums, and literary events. We’re united by the love of story, the feel of books, and the knowledge that vicarious experience can be as meaningful and real as…