Most 0-Level Rituals are barely bothers – the sort of things likely to become folk magic practiced by hedge witches and midwives. More powerful Rituals, however, can be quite frightening and onerous. On the other hand, is even quite possible – though unlikely – for a powerful 5th Level ...
Like a fine Irish whiskey, James Benn's series only gets better, and this time there is a most intriguing addition—a regiment of young Soviet female pilots called the Night Witches. —Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope mysteries This book had me at ...
Among the photographs of ancestors I have on this site are ones of ancestors born in the 1700s! One is of someone born in 1784 -- my great-great-great-great grandmother Catherine Coffman Funkhouser -- found on this part of the tree. Living until 1870, she lived long enough for ...
I think that James Patterson did this in order to give the book a more of a real life emotion as max has obstacles thrown at her. In the book there are times where we get to see the rest of the flock where max isn't witch in not in max’s head but upon further inspection yes ...
There’s also deciding what to get rid of. Sometimes I have to cut a favorite image or sequence because it distracts from the focus of the book. That can be heart-wrenching too. I have to keep an open mind. There’s always a ton of stuff left behind on the “cutting room floor....
My latest book, AVOID SEEING A MOUSE AND OTHER TALES OF THE REAL AND SURREAL, is a January 2024 release from Alien Buddha Press, following 2017’s TOMBS: A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH, a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press. I am an Indiana based short story writer and...
Why I Love It Widdershins is set in an alternate-universe Victorian world, and follows the adventures of witches, magicians, and treasure hunters. It has a really strong mystery novel vibe, and a well defined system of magic and the spirit world that lends itself well to puzzles that need ...
This is the first book credited to Kate Griffin that I have reviewed here — but it is not the first book by this author to appear on James Nicoll Reviews . Kate Griffin and Claire North are both pen-names for the prolific Catherine Webb. I have no idea how to disambiguate this ...
True. I doubt it. Wild. Doubt it not.Doubt nothing that gives promise of a care. Right handsome dames there are in Lancashire, Whence called their women, witches!–witching things! I know a dozen families in whichYou’d meet a courtesy worthy of a bow. I’ll give you letters to them...
I was elated to discover John F. Carr’s 2008 H. Beam Piper: A Biography in the box. I had been wanting to read the book ever since I discovered it existed. It was inevitable that at some point I would review this book. Even if nobody paid me to do so! I am just that ...