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	Exile (The Nandor Tales, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 98 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackest Knights by C.T. Phipps (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Martin Owton (Goodreads Author), David Niall Wilson (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Blackest Spells by C.T. Phipps (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael R. Baker (Goodreads Author), Allan Batchelder (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Vol 2 by David A. Riley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Mike Chinn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tais Teng (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Full Fathom Forty by David J. Howe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nina Allan (Contributor), Suzanne Barbieri (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Stepping: An Anthology of Fantasy & Sci-Fi Tales by Debbie Mumford (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Patrice Sarath (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Tom Fowler (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Happy New Year. Welcome to 2026. In fact it is nearly 3 weeks into 2026, how did that happen? Oh yeah, I went to Ireland for Christmas.

I’m going to leave myself a hostage to fortune by saying I intend to finish a first draft of Eternal Warrior book 2 this year. I have nearly 60k words and another 15-20k should do it. I also intend to start sending Eternal Warrior book 1 out to smaller publishers t

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For the Killing of Kings (The Ring-Sworn Trilogy #1)

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The Five Stages is a very solid anthology leaning heavily to horror; fans of George Romero style zombies will find plenty to like. I am less of a horror reader than other genres so judging stories by how much I enjoy them is not a viable yardstick, I ...more
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This book is so not like my usual reads yet I found it very enjoyable. It is very much a character-driven story following Malance, a party girl from a rural backwater who is scratching a living as an interpreter in the glittering imperial capital Fer ...more
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