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Captive Spirit

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eBook � $4.49

Historical Fiction

DISCLAIMER: My own novella is going to be published by this publisher.  I purchased my own copy.

(And aside � This was my nook inaugural read!)

Aiyana is having a hard time dealing with her impending womanhood. She has to do things like cook now, and dress up nice, and weave baskets. She'd much rather play ball in the ball court with the guys, and hang out with her friend, Honovi. She'd be just as happy ...

An amusing thing happened the other day. I was talking to a friend about the books I'm reading and she stopped me and said, "Wait. You're reading more than one book at once?"

"Well, yes."

"How do you DO that?"

Well, I don't know how I do it, I just do. It's a gift. Mostly, I only do this when I'm sampling books, which is what I'm doing now. Here are the ones that caught my eye enough to acquire.

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (courtesy of Tor)

I'm having a little ...

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wrote the fantasy novel, REDEMPTION IN INDIGO, which is inspired by West African folk tales and Caribbean legends. She won the Frank Collymore Literary Award of 2008 for Redemption in Indigo, and then won it again in 2009 for a science fiction novel called The Best of All Possible Worlds. REDEMPTION IN INDIGO was released last week.

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Please tell us what REDEMPTION IN INDIGO is about and how you were inspired to write it.

Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Redemption in Indigo

Just finished Captive Spirit by Liz Fichera and expect to put up a review within days. I also have an interview with Karen Lord, author of Redemption in Indigo that I will be posting on Wednesday.

And this week, I became the proud owner of a new nook! (Yes, it's capitalized that way.) So, I will be doing a rare tech review as well, which someone actually requested of me a few weeks ago.

(I'd love to do more tech reviews, but as of right now, I have to buy the tech toys I...

I included publisher's links on this edition because most of these publishers are either small presses or are significantly discounted at the publisher's site. Enjoy!

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The Loving Dead

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Trade Paperback � 14.95

Girls! Zombies! Zeppelins!

If Chuck Palahniuk and Christopher Moore had a zombie love child, it would look like THE LOVING DEAD, a darkly comic debut novel by Amelia Beamer.

Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates working at the same ...

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Redemption in Indigo

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Trade Paperback � $16

I have often said that I love novels that can take me to a different time, or a different place, or both. Redemption in Indigo does that and more–it takes me to a different culture. These are the best of all. Novels like Clavell's Shogun are in this class, along with Kaye's The Far Pavilions (which my father recommended to me but I have never read), and Grave's I, Claudius. Redemption in Indigo takes...

Watched The Book of Eli last night. This will be a quick post because I have about10 minutes before I go to work, so no images.

I loved it. It was wonderful storytelling. It was just the way Christian fiction ought to be–get the message across without any heavy-handedness. Denzel Washington was terrific, as usual, and who ever knew that the girl who played Jackie Burkhart (Mila Kunis) on That 70′s Show could act so well? Gary Oldman was hardly recognizable as the villain, but h...

The winner of Captive Spirit is Tessa! Tessa, you should have received my email by now.

You can find out more about CAPTIVE SPIRIT at its , which includes an excerpt. Or, visit Liz at .

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[image error] Liz Fichera is an author living in the American Southwest by way of Chicago.  She likes to write stories about ordinary people who do extraordinary things, oftentimes against the backdrop of Native American legends.  When she's not plotting her next novel, you can find her hanging out on and , dishing about writing, books, LOST reruns, and the best brands of chocolate.  Please visit her web site at .

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