“If you pick up a viper and it bites you, it’s not the viper’s fault, is it?” Novels are a bit like jokes. There’s some good ones. There’s some bad ones. Every now and then, one comes along that makes your stomach hurt because you can’t stop laughing. Then there are the groaners. Alex Bledsoe’s…
Don’t you just love the cover? The colors blend very well, red and black. That silhouette of a smoking gangster perfectly encapsulates the narrator, a fallen angel impersonating some Philip Marlowe. That detail is shown off by the stunning wings. Really eye catching. Then you have the cityscape in the background. I mean, if I…
“Coming back from the dead feels less like a miracle than like waking up with the world’s most debilitating hangover.” Urban Fantasy has this fixation with stupid characters, action heroes who run blindly into the fire, not a care in the world. Call it bravery; doesn’t matter if you’re limbs are torn from you by…
Acerbic Writing 