Some author careers culminate with a masterpiece but few launch their careers with one. R. A. MacAvoy’s Tea with the Black Dragon was a first novel and a masterpiece, and it gained her the 1983 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Would you say she was in good company if I told you [...]

Are you a fan of the hot new TV series Revolution? It’s about future world without electricity. If you love that show you’ll thrill to Steven R. Boyett’s Ariel, which predated Revolution by some three decades. The story of Ariel and its sequel Elegy Beach is every bit as amazing, as magical and fantastic, as [...]

Though agents and editors are expected to be enthusiastic about books they’re involved with, a steady diet of hyperbole can elicit tedium and skepticism. Of a particularly partisan agent an editor once sneered “He thinks every book he handles is Moby Dick.” For that reason, as regular readers of this column know, it has to [...]

Though agents and editors are expected to be enthusiastic about books they’re involved with, a steady diet of hyperbole can elicit tedium and skepticism. Of a particularly partisan agent an editor once sneered “He thinks every book he handles is Moby Dick.” For that reason, as regular readers of this column know, it has to [...]

The e-book edition of Steven R. Boyett’s Ariel is now available for download from Fictionwise. Over the next few weeks it will also show up in Kindle, Sony, and other e-book formats. Keep checking. The story of Ariel and its sequel Elegy Beach is every bit as amazing, as magical and fantastic, as the novel [...]