Mario Acevedo has a new book cover out. According to Amazon, his novel, Jailbait Zombie, isn’t due out until February 24, 2009. I haven’t been able to find an excerpt yet, but it is still a little early. We’ll have to wait a little longer for that.
Here’s an article by Publisher’s Weekly giving a bunch of reviews for some new fiction coming out. One of the novels, The Dracula Dossier by James Reese, actually sounds really intriguing. Here’s what I’m finding interesting:
In Reese’s scrupulously imagined thriller, told largely through entries from a lost journal kept by the author of Dracula in 1888, Bram Stoker attends an indoctrination ceremony of the Order of the Golden Dawn, at the behest of Oscar Wilde’s mum and a young William Butler Yeats. The ceremony goes horribly awry, resulting in one participant—Francis Tumblety, a patent medicine salesman newly arrived from America—becoming a vessel for the evil Egyptian god Set and applying his surgical skills to the slaughter of Whitechapel prostitutes in order to draw Stoker out for a supernatural showdown.
Lilith Saintcrow is guestblogging over at Paranormality and her topic of discussion are her top 10 hints for worldbuilding. While I don’t kid myself that I’m a writer (although I do dabble, but haven’t really for years), it’s kind of interesting to read the thought process behind setting the mood. The one thing I require out of my worlds is that they have to be believable and I should get confused. Although, this is probably the reason I’m not a huge fan of futuristic sci-fi.
