Your cart is currently empty!
-
The Deliciously Twisted Halloween Book Sale
The crumpled golden leaves were disturbed by the silent steps of a shadowy figure. It moved through the streets, dragging dozens of chained authors behind it. The authors cried and moaned. In their arms they carried bundles of their books. “Buy our books,” the author’s howled. Their mournful shouts echoed around the houses. “Buy our…
-
Book Review: The Tower Outside of Time by Joseph Sale
In his latest book, Joseph Sale brings together the worlds of Dark Hilarity and The Tunnel with the four main characters meeting up and taking on the world of Dae’eshta. Since escaping The Cretin, Tara and Nicola have moved to London and become successful fantasy novelists. I loved that they got a happy ending, and…
-
Author Interview: Joseph Sale
Iseult: Joseph, thank you so much for talking with me today. It’s been a blast celebrating your writing all month long, and it’s wonderful to get to learn more about your inspiration and process. Virtue’s End is a masterpiece. It’s both an exciting fantasy and a deeply personal tale, and it’s an epic poem! What…
-
Book Review: Virtue’s End by Joseph Sale
A personal epic poem, the stakes are high in Virtue’s End – Horus must save the land of imagination from the vile beasts that desire to destroy it. Inspired by Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, it’s no surprise that the poet appears within this tome, and several other writers of great fame too, including Mary Shelley…
-
Guest Post: The Forefather of British Fantasy by Joseph Sale
Born in 1552, in London, he served as a young man as a secretary to the Bishop of Rochester, the Earl of Leicester, and later Lord Grey de Wilton, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Along the way, he authored several pastoral works. Aged 38, he was brought before Queen Elizabeth I by Sir Walter Raleigh to…
-
Book Review: Desecrated Empires
Written with Edward Kennard and Robert Monaghan (I wonder if he wears a menpō in real life?), this is not a book you read through in one sitting. This is a tome you pour over, preferably by candle light, while you laugh manically at the thought of the brave adventurers who will have to experience…
-
Book Review: The Tunnel by Joseph Sale
When she is 11, Georgina Jones discovers something about her cold, calculating father that not only destroys her relationship with him, but results in her keeping men at a distance when she grows up, unable to form a meaningful connection. In 2019, a huge crocodile stalks the sewers of London. Some say it is Jack…
-
Book Review: Save Game by Joseph Sale
The author claims this book is his answer to Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’. I say it is the book ‘Ready Player One’ wishes it could have been. Levi lives in Birmingham in the UK. He wanted to be a lawyer, but after falling in love with computer games, he decided to become a game…
-
Book Review: Return to the Black Gate by Joseph Sale
A bittersweet end to the series with this tour de force from mister mindflayer, Joseph Sale. On another world, known as Nekyia, its prince returns a changed man. Gone are his physical eyes, but with his third eye he can see the doors between all the worlds are now open and something older than the…
-
Book Review: Beyond the Black Gate by Joseph Sale
An engrossing dark fantasy with epic world building and lyrical prose, Beyond the Black Gate is a completely different kettle of fish to its predecessor. Craig Smiley has made it beyond the Black Gate, but it’s not the paradise he was promised. Angry at his betrayal, Smiley decides to do what any self respecting serial…