Archives for October 2013

AISFP 237 – Kevin Lucia and Ronald Malfi, Part Two

Timothy C. Ward and Kevin Lucia return for this second part of their interview with Mystery/Thriller/Horror author, Ronald Malfi. Part one: AISFP 236. Check details below for how to enter our big Coffin Hop Web Tour giveaway. Discussed: How Ronald Malfi paces a mystery into the horror story, using his award-winning novel, Floating Staircase, as […]

Book Review: ANNO DRACULA: JOHNNY ALUCARD by Kim Newman

Kim Newman’s latest novel, Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard(Titan Books) is, in my view, the first essential vampire book of the decade. It combines rollercoaster action with satire, mordant wit and scares aplenty. This fourth volume in the author’s cult, Anno Dracula series sees an undead waif called Ion Popescu on the run from communist Romania’s […]

AISFP 236 – Ronald Malfi and Kevin Lucia, Part One

Continuing our Coffin Hop Blog Tour, Timothy C. Ward tags Horror author, Kevin Lucia, author of Things Slip Through, to help interview one of the best Horror authors you might never have heard of, Ronald Malfi. For those who associate Horror with blood-and-guts shock fests, his is not that kind of Horror. Listen on and […]

SF Book Releases This Week: Oct. 29, 2013

Welcome to another edition of SF Book Releases This Week. As a bonus this week, every one of these titles goes into the ebook giveaway pool for two of our Coffin Hop Blog Tour winners to choose from. We have a bunch in the pool already. Go check out our Coffin Hop posts for more […]

Dystopian Horror

We’re still in the Coffin Hop tour for now, until the 31st, but I signed up for this other blog tour, Dystopia Reading Challenge 2013, and needed to get a post up. I thought it would be fun to share this reading challenege with my fellow Coffin Hoppers as well as to use it to open up […]

Book Review: APOCALYPTIC MONTESSA AND NUCLEAR LULU by Mercedes Yardley

Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love By Mercedes M. Yardley Her mama always said she was special. His daddy called him a demon. But even monsters can fall in love. Montessa Tovar is walking home alone when she is abducted by Lu, a serial killer with unusual talents and a grudge […]

Coffin Hop Web Tour: Top 3 Villains

Now in my third year participating in this favorite of blog tours, you’d think I’d have had a post ready first thing in the morning for you eager coffin hoppers. For horror fans, you sure wake up early ;). Okay, so here’s what we have planned at Adventures in SciFi Publishing: Monday I will post the […]

Reddit: “Ask Me Anything” with Tim Ward

Today’s the day. Head over to http://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/1p22fs/im_tim_ward_ama/ and ask me anything, from podcasting, the publishing industry, being an aspiring author, writing book reviews, moving to South Korea to teach English, why redheads are the most beautiful, etc. For those who haven’t visited reddit before, it is a very fun and informative community. I recommend registering (free) […]

Book Review: ALIF THE UNSEEN by G. Willow Wilson

If there is a better book than Alif The Unseen by G. Willow Wilson that showcases the nebulous nature of genre definitions and the trend towards the mélange of tropes so prevalent these days in genre fiction, then I can’t think of it. Mixing fantasy, mythology, cyberpunk and techno-thriller devices, Wilson has sculpted a world […]

SF Book Releases This Week: Oct. 22, 2013

Welcome to this week’s SF releases. We have a nice mixture of small press and Big Five book releases, many right for the spooky holiday season to come. That creepy guy below us, Cthulu, is the hallmark character of H.P. Lovecraft’s Horror. Fans of his work should check out 01 Publishing’s Lovecraftian anthology, Whispers from the […]