Rants

For an eBook??????? 'The Tyrant's Law', book three in Daniel Abraham's 'Dagger and Coin' series just cost me US$18.21, The paperback copy only costs US$10.98!! WHAT THE FUCK!!! Is it just me or is there something seriously wrong with that? How the Fuck can Orbit justify an eBook costing $8 more than the physical copy of the exact same...

'Unfettered' is a fantasy short story anthology put together by Shawn Speakman to pay off his medical bills(lucky him). It's probably the strongest fantasy anthology line up since the original 'Legends'. Among the contributors are Patrick Rothfuss, Mark Lawrence, Peter V Brett, Tad Williams, Brandon Sanderson, Jacqueline Carey, RA Salvatore and Daniel Abraham. That's a stellar line up just...

I could just let the facts speak for themselves, but this really annoys me so I feel the need to ramble. The other day I looked up the price of Heir of Novron on my Kindle. A few days latter I checked again, this time on my PC. To my shock, the price had gone up $3.90. I thought...

For my own amusement and because I'm bored, I bring you the first post in the "Author Pose Off" series. The categories that I've come up with so far are: The Tough Guy, The Serial Killer, I'm to Sexy, Crazy Cat Women, The Hippie and Pimp Daddy First up 'The...

Was David Gemmell in the habit of being out of date and adding material to books that had already been published? If not then the people running the David Gemmell Legend Award arn't doing a very good job of respecting him or his name. I understand that they are volunteers and most likely working on a shoe...

Might ramble a bit here.... Four things I dislike authors doing online. Attacking other authors personally. Criticising another authors work. Posting political crap I disagree with ;) Responding to readers criticism publicly. Granted I occasionally find it amusing, but...

The authors are the drugs and the Publishers are the dealers. The Publisher's know we are hopelessly addicted, so what do they do? Put out nice new shiny editions of books we already own multiple copies of, knowing that the hopelessly addicted will sell their souls to have a copy. And I did! ...

It's only fair I rant about Solaris and the release of Paul Kearney's final Macht book "Kings of Morning" given they seem to be as unproffesional as Gollancz. I'll try to be a little bit more creative in my launguage this time and not be such a potty mouth. So where the flipping hell is "Kings of...

I've been considering posting this for awhile and while I have no wish to attack the widow of an author I respected, I feel the need to vent. I'm told it's good for you. The First Betrayal: Instead of writing A Memory of Light as one book as Jordan envisioned, Tor decided and Team Jordan and Sanderson agreed...

First published: Jan 18, 2011 @sffnews This be a rant and therefore contains strong offensive language as well as petty humourous(to me) insults. Scaring may occur. This rant is directed solely and squarely at the Publishers and not at Scott Lynch. ...