John Lenahan joins the ranks of Sigler, Hutchins, Lafferty, Wallace, and Harwood as podcast novelists to break into print. I listened to John’s Shadowmagic via Podiobooks, and it’s a fun fantasy tale that made my drive home much more enjoyable.
The book has been published in a limited edition hardcover, numbered and signed by the author. You’ll be able to find the paperback next year. But get your hands on one of these collector items through The Book Depository. Congrats, John!
Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert are back with Paul of Dune,the story that reveals how Paul Muad’Dib conquered the universe. I am personally looking forward to this book as the gap between Dune and Dune Messiah always drove me crazy.
Paul of Duneis also a Scifi Essential book, joining books by Larry Niven, Gene Wolfe, and George R.R. Martin with that distinction.
Have you heard of Underland Press? Neither had I. Thank God they sent me some books! Here’s how they advertise themselves:
CALL IT THE NEW WEIRD, or fantasy, or dark fantasy. Call it what you want. We like reading by flashlight under the covers at night. We want to make books you can’t put down.
We’ve got some good ones: Contemporary alt-lit master Brian Evenson’slatest-a story that started its life as a limited-edition detective novella set in a sect of self-mutilators; world-renowned fantasist Jeff VanderMeer’s new Ambergris novel, the third novel set in a world where nothing is what it seems; newcomer Will Elliott, a writer whose demonic clowns caused the critics to swoon and readers to demand more when they first saw print in Australia and Britain; the husband-and-wife team called Escober, a best-selling export from the Netherlands brought to America for the very first time; and rising star Kealan Patrick Burke doing the world’s firstever wovel, sponsored on Underland Press’ groundbreaking website.
JOIN US IN PRINT AND ONLINE. For the weird, the strange, the odd, the unsettling. For the books you can’t put down.
The Pilo Family Circus looks of particular interest to me, featuring psychotic clowns, an alternate universe, and monsters. Will Elliott won five Australian literary awards for this debut novel, so it looks like it’s worth a shot.
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