Mystery Blog/Site List

The following list of links to mystery blogs and the accompanying descriptions were generously provided by Rosemary Harris and Hank Phillippi Ryan during the ALA Convention yesterday.  Enjoy and happy reading! Cozy Chicks Blog Features JB Stanley, Heather Webber, Lorna Barrett, Kate Collins, Bed Baker, Leann Sweeney, and Maggie Sefton. “We blog about our writing [...]

ALA 2010 Report

This year was my first year attending the ALA Annual Conference down in Washington DC.  It was a mostly good experience that was a little overwhelming given the shear amount of stuff that is going on at any given moment.  As usual with a conference atmosphere I was reminded at how wonderfully terrible I am [...]

Xbox 360 S Hardware Dissection

PC Perspective has a nice, well photographed, dissection of the new Xbox 360 hardware for those who like those kind of things.  Turns out that the change in architecture is more significant then I thought particularly since the CPU and GPU are located beneath the same hood.  The relevant information is on page 3 of [...]

Review: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi Tor, 2006 I tore through The Ghost Brigades, sequel to Old Man’s War, on a Friday evening and found it as engrossing and entertaining as its progenitor.  The Ghost Brigades focuses on the the titular soldiers, the elite special forces charged with the defense of the colonies and whose bodies [...]

Review: Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Old Man’s war John Scalzi Tor, 2005 John Scalzi’s 2005 debut novel Old Man’s War is a book I’ve been putting off reading for some time now.  There is no particular reason for this I just kept getting distracted by shiny new books.  This as it turns out was a major fail on my part.  [...]

Review: Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett

Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero Dan Abnett Angry Robot, 2009 (UK ebook version, US edition due out sometime in 2010) Dan Abnett is best known for his tremendous body of work in Black Library’s Warhammer 40k novels and, for met at least, his stellar (pun intended) work (alongside partner-in-crime Andy Lanning) with Marvel Comics’ cosmic heroes.  [...]

A Quick Take on Steelwing

If I were browsing CDs in a store and came across Steelwing’s Lord of the Wasteland it would have been album I bought on cover art alone. I mean it has a robot vulture and a badass muscle car loaded with guns! It is ridiculous. It is awesome. It displays a sense of fun that [...]

Way of Kings Freebies

The first three chapters of Brandon Sanderson’s upcoming Way of Kings are up over at Tor.com for registered users (registration is free).  I’ve posted the introduction after the jump but the other free chapters are over at Tor.com.  Also check out the sweet cover art; Michael Whelan is one epic dude!

Review: Noir by Robert Coover

Noir: a novel Robert Coover Overlook, 2010 First Line: You are at the morgue. Have you ever finished a book and put it down thinking that you weren’t sure what exactly happened but that you kind of liked it?  Such was my experience with Robert Coover’s Noir.  Noir is nominally a mystery though it is [...]

To 4e or Not to 4e

So apparently several weeks absent from the GM seat is enough to ignite the fires of my fledgling imagination again.  My last go round in the “hot seat” was none-to-pleasant an effect that was mostly my fault; a symptom of my own laziness.  For the first time in what feels like forever I’ve actually been [...]