Review: However Many Must Die, by Phil Williams

Another book review! This time, it’s However Many Must Die, by Phil Williams.

The blurb:

Wild Wish was trained to do one thing: kill.

Saved from a lonely backwater existence by a global war, Wish couldn’t believe her luck when she got into the Blood Scouts. Now she gets to share tents with an all-female platoon of night-stalking, giant-slaying, boat-sinking, battle-swaying legends in the making. Read More …


Assassin’s Apprentice interview with Robin Hobb and Jody Houser

I interviewed fantasy legend Robin Hobb and New York Times bestselling comics writer Jody Houser about the new six-issue Assassin’s Apprentice comic series coming out next month from Dark Horse Comics.

With art by Ryan Kelly, colors by Jordie Bellaire, letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and covers by Anna Steinbauer, Dark Horse has assembled an all-star team to bring this classic fantasy story to the world of comics. Read More …


Why I decided to embrace serial novels

Serial novels used to be a thing in ancient times (see Charles Dickens, Isaac Asimov, Alexander Dumas, who published their masterworks in newspapers and magazines). Are they about to be a thing again? Elle Griffin certainly thinks so. After surveying Read More …