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Started reading Olena Kalytiak Davis' "Late Summer Ode: Poems."
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Wish I could claim the timing of this was intentional, but it totally wasn't.

As an old man, I find myself appreciating stories about older heroes more these days. And I'm not alone in this. In my new interview with author Valerie Valdes, she talks about how the appeal of older characters led her to write her new space fantasy novel "Where Peace Is Lost."
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Started reading the shared world, anthology "The Ross 248 Project."
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If the opening story (Patrick Chiles' "Garden Of Serpents") is any indication, this is going to be very interesting...

Finished reading Taneum Bambrick's "Vantage: Poems."
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Way too short but oh so good.

Started reading Cavan Scott's "Star Wars: The High Republic: Path Of Vengeance."
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Has a decidedly anti-Jedi bent...

Finished reading Ginger Smith's "The Rush's Echo."
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Knew it would be engaging like the first book; didn't expect it to be a bit raw, too.

Started reading Taneum Bambrick's "Vantage: Poems."
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Going backward; read her newer book before, now reading her first.

Unlike fellow jazz musician Sun Ra, smooth jazz sax man Jackiem Joyner isn't from outer space. He just goes there sometimes as the writer of such YA sci-fi novels as “Zarya Episode II: Sochi Unleashed,” as he explains in this exclusive interview.
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It's not easy writing new stories about popular characters. But in my new interview with author Davide Mana about "Descent: Dreams Of Fire," his Sword & Sorcery novel based on the fantasy board game "Descent," he talks about how eager he was to get to tell Vaerix what to do.
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Finished reading Kyle Dargan's "Panzer Herz: Poems."
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As good as his other collections, which is saying a lot. As a fellow former resident of Essex County, I salute you.

While iconic / author Lisa Tuttle's influences are pretty well set at this point, in this exclusive interview about her new collection "Riding The Nightmare," she explains how some of these stories were actually written in response to other people's.
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Having written two multi-book series and started a third, writer Jessie Kwak is going in a different dimension for her sci-fi novelette "After The Tide." To find out what this relatively shorter story is all about, check out this exclusive interview.
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Started reading the collection "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection."
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Only seven years late...

For the latest in eSpecBooks' "Systema Paradoxa" series of novellas about cryptids, writer Ken Schrader tells a tale of the J’Ba Fofi, giant spiders that live in the Congo. But as he says in this exclusive interview, they're not the real monsters in his story.
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Started reading Kyle Dargan's "Panzer Herz: Poems."
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The subject matter and varied structure of the first 7 paired nicely with Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew."

Started reading Ginger Smith's "The Rush's Echo."
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Is so far as entertaining and engaging as the first book, "The Rush's Edge."

Finished reading Andrea Gibson's "You Better Be Lightning: Poems."
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Yet another impressive collection of from someone who's impressed me as much twice before.

Started reading "Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide To Walking, Talking, And Probing Like A Real M.D." by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.
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Very entertaining and informative ... and a good indicator that I was right not to go to medical school.

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