The site continues to grow! Another new section and another Recommended Reading entrant!

As you've no doubt spotted by now, we have a lovely links page that provides you with a number of intriguing sites on the web relevant to our interests. Go check it out if you haven't already!

In other news, I just finished another great book but with a twist.

This work is the first one I'm going to put in the Recommended Reading section that wasn't published independently.

As evidenced by Rob J. Hayes and many others, the line between independent author and small press published author is growing exceedingly blurred. As a result I am now permitting small press publications to appear in the Recommended Reading section irrespective of whether they have been published independently before.

Fear not though, fair reader! Every work that is published by an indie/small-press will have a big bold disclaimer telling you so. So if you really want to read exclusively self-published materials from the section then you can.

In this case the publisher in question is Ragnarok, who already recently picked up Rob J. Hayes, author of the previously self-published The Heresy Within.

Today's addition to the Recommended Reading section is stable-mate Seth Skorkowsky's Damoren. A dark and pulpy Urban fantasy with no shortage of guns, violence and monsters.

Damoren caught me off guard with its lovingly-crafted deviation from all the standard things we have come to expect in the genre, reading like a big budget horror film at times instead of a typical Dresden clone.

It's solid stuff, and well worth a read if you're into that kind of thing.

In other news, the Artist's and Editor's Corners have taken a sideline to the production of the latest annual anthology, Through The Suffering Of Others, which as we speak is emblazoned upon the front page of the site.

I shall get around to developing them in due course, once I've found all that missing time that I seem to have misplaced.

Last but not least, if you haven't thrown your self-published hat into the ring that is Mark Lawrence's call to self-published fantasy authors then you need to get your skates on, as submissions close this Friday.