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Review: “Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana”

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The idea of reading a book written by two people who had never even met was too cool to pass up. And I also felt like I should be supporting Bookcrazy and The Dragonpage by actually buying their authors’ books. So I sent Amazon.com my $23.95 (dear Lord, for a PAPERBACK! BTW, it is now available for $19.95). About six weeks later, Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana was sitting in my doorstep, wrapped in a plain brown package.

It was worth every fucking cent.

This is a good book. Not a good “first novel”. A good novel. Tee, Lisa, you should be very proud of yourselves.

Cover to Cover #50: Mitchell Graham

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Mitchell Graham.
Mitch joins us to talk about his book, The Fifth Ring, recently released by Harper Collins. It’s the first book in a trilogy and regardless of what you might think from the title, it hasn’t a thing to do with any of Tolkiens works.

The Fifth Ring is Mitch’s first work as a novelist, bringing in many aspects of his past as a collegiate fencer, attorney and neuropsychologist. Now that sounds like an interesting back ground that would make anyone a fantasy author!

Cover to Cover #49: Michael Moorcock

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Interview: Michael Moorcock is here, talking with us about his latest book, The Skrayling Tree. If you’ve followed Elric over the years, you might find him in an odd place, dealing with Nazis and Native Americans! Yes, Stormbringer is still around, so old hats won’t be disappointed.

Cover to Cover #46: Greg Keyes

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Interview: Greg Keyes is a New York Times Bestselling author, with several other novels to his credit, including a Star Wars book he’s currently working on. With a solid background in Anthropology, Greg’s fantasy novels have an interesting historic twist.

Greg’s latest work, The Briar King, is due to release January 19th, so it should be in stores shortly after that.

Cover to Cover #41: Victoria Strauss

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Interview: Victoria Strauss has penned many great Sci-fi/fantasy books in the past, and we talk to her about her latest one, The Garden of the Stone from Eos.

She is also the owner/moderator of Writer Beware, a site dedicated to shedding light on shady agents, publishers, and editors out to take advantage of new authors.

Cover to Cover #40: Dave Rineberg

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Dave Rineberg is a fascinating person with amazing accomplishments. As a tennis pro and hitting coach for none other than Venus and Serena Williams, he’s written three books on his time in the trenches with this powerful and controversial family.

Dave has also penned his first fantasy novel, In Search of Dorothy, due out sometime in the summer of 2003. This book takes us 20 years after Dorothy’s return to Kansas and asks a simple question: what if it wasn’t a dream? Dave weaves in concepts from both the orginal book as well as the movie The Wizard of Oz

Cover to Cover #37: Jonathan Fesmire

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Interview: An interesting talk with Jonathan Fesmire, author of Seeds of Vision and Children of Rhatlan. Jonathan started out with an e-book publisher and has migrated over to conventional print via Crystal Dreams Publications. Give a listen to see what he has to say about the difference between “e” and print.

Cover to Cover #36: R. A. Salvatore

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R. A. Salvatore – New York Times best selling author – many times over – talks with us about his latest book The Thousand Orcs. The first in the Hunter’s Blades trilogy, published by Wizards of the Coast.

We talk about his writing, and exciting opertunities with The Demon Wars, his Star Wars books, movie participation, and other upcoming book deals.

Cover to Cover #31: Danielle Ackley-McPhail

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Interview: Danielle Ackley-McPhail wrote the book Yesterday’s Dreams, a fantasy book dealing with the things we acquire and how as those things depart from us, they take our impressions with them as well.

The interview gave some great insight to a first time author, and tells her almost unbelievable tale of getting published.