Today, Literary Escapism is excited to welcome back Erica Hayes, author of the great Shadowfae Chronicles.  The second novel in the series, Shadowglass, was released last week.

A seductive magic mirror lies hidden deep in a demon’s lair, with a simple warning: don’t stare at the glass…

Ice is a troubled fairy trying her best to survive in the squalid underworld of the Shadowfae.  When she spends a hot night with a demon lord, she discovers a powerful magic mirror in his lair — and pilfers it, knowing it’s the key to escaping her bleak life as a two-bit con artist.  But Ice soon discovers that the mirror’s power comes with a price…madness, which is slowly overtaking her.

Indigo oozes darkness, danger and tempting sensuality.  He’s been sent to destroy Ice and bring the mirror back to its rightful owner; a …

Rachel Vincent has released the final cover for the third Soul Screamers novel, My Soul to Keep, which will be released in June. Isn’t it snazzy?

For those who have been looking for anything relating to the HBO production of Game of Thrones, George RR Martin has posted the first still.

Interviews:

• James Marsters, actor from Buffy/Angel, Smallville, Torchwood and Caprica, by Newsarama
• Amber Benson, author of Cat’s Claw, by Bitten by Books
• Mark Henry, author of Battle of the Network Zombies, at Vampire Wire
• Pamela Clare, author of Naked Edge, at The Bradford Bunch
• Erica Hayes, author of Shadowglass, at All Things Urban Fantasy
• Danielle Trussoni, author of Angelology, at Sidhevicious Reviews
• Skyler White, author of and Falling, Fly, by Amberkatze’s Book Blog
• Destiny Blaine, author of Domination …

Spellwright by Blake Charlton

Imagine a world in which you could peel written words off a page and make them physically real. You might pick your teeth with a sentence fragment, protect yourself with defensive paragraphs, or thrust a sharply-worded sentence at an enemy’s throat.

Such a world is home to Nicodemus Weal, an apprentice at the wizardly academy of Starhaven. Because of how fast he can forge the magical runes that create spells, Nicodemus was thought to be the Halcyon, a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent an event called the War of Disjunction, which would destroy all human language. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn’t spell.

Runes must be placed in the correct order to create a spell. Deviation results in a “misspell”—a flawed text that behaves in an erratic, sometimes lethal, manner. And Nicodemus has a …

Kelly Abell’s Haunted Destiny was a story that had me equal parts frustrated and interested all at the same time.

Destiny Dove is the only survivor of a tragic car crash that killed her parents and baby brother. A teen uprooted from her home, she is forced to live with her eccentric grandmother whom Destiny has been taught her whole life to fear. She must start her life over living with an old woman who is not only a stranger to her, but just strange. All Destiny wants is to fit in with kids like her and begin to pull her life back together.

But Destiny soon discovers she is not like the other teens at all. She has developed the family gift of being able to see and talk to ghosts and her estranged grandmother will be …

I’m a little late with it, but for my participation in the League Mini-Challenge, I picked up Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry, the first Amanda Feral novel.  I’ve heard a lot of great things about it and it had definitely earned my interest.

Alive, ad exec Amanda Feral worked hard to wring enjoyment out of her days. Now that she’s a zombie, it’s a different story. Turns out, Seattle is home to glamorous undead of every description, and Amanda – stylish and impeccably groomed even in the afterlife – is swigging cocktails and living large (so to speak) among its elite. But there are downsides. Not being able to stomach anything except alcohol and human flesh, for instance. And the fact that someone is targeting Seattle’s otherworldly inhabitants for their own sinister reasons. Preying …