Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

FROM BLAKE SMITH:  In Pursuit of Justice (A novel of the Garia cycle.)

Garia and the East Morlans have been on increasingly rocky terms for years, and when Téo and Zara ran away together, they touched off the powder keg of war between their kingdoms. Now they have to fight for their lives while learning to live in a foreign land.
In the Morlans, Hanri and Alia are facing their own sets of problems. He must control and divert the single-minded vengeance of his father King Reynard, and she must sort the gold of information from the dross of gossip in a palace swarming with rumors. It could mean the difference between life and death for all of them.

WHAT IS MORE, WE’VE KNOWN THAT FOR SOME TIME NOW, BUT I STILL RUN INTO THE ALARMIST THEORIES IN THE POPULAR PRESS:  Bees are not in Danger.

THE DEMOCRATS TELL THEMSELVES FAIRYTALES, LIKE THAT REAGAN’S BOOM WAS THE RESULT OF CARTER’S PRESIDENCY.  BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IF WE KEEP THE DEMS IN POWER THE BOOM NEVER MATERIALIZES.  AFTER ALL, WE WERE ON THE VERGE OF RECOVERY FOR 8 YEARS UNDER OBAMA.  AND NO, DON’T TELL US THE RECOVERY HAS BEEN GOING ON THAT LONG, BECAUSE WE DON’T CARE FOR DOCTORED NUMBERS.  WE’RE GOING TO GO WITH OUR LYING EYES:  Evaluating a president—any president.

FROM RICHARD BLEDSOE:  The Cthulhu Blues and Other Stories.

The sinister legend of a mysterious blues man. A fateful encounter with a dangerous work of art. A horrible visitor enters a humble pub. In the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft, comes this morbid collection of short stories; a terrifying trio of Eldritch tales.

And he made a blog post about it, too.

PEOPLE WHO CAN EVEN THINK OF THIS ARE NOT JUST IGNORANT, THEY’RE EVIL.  THEIR DISGUSTING PARODY OF ART CHEAPENS BOTH HORROR AND CIVILIZATION SPLINTERED BY THAT HORROR:  Anne Frank Reimagined: Repulsive in Every Way.  They are also the ones paving the way for the repetition of these horrors.

THE DOGS ARE FINDING THEIR OWN FOOD.  ALL THE TRAD MEDIA CAN DO IS HURT THEMSELVES.  AND MOST OF US DON’T CARE, ANYMORE:  The Dogs Don’t Like It.

WE NEED IT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE!  Trump in Florida: ‘The Time Has Come for Photo ID’ for Voting.  (However, unless Motor Voter is castrated, we’re still going to get non-citizens registering and some number of them voting.  In most states they don’t ask you for proof of citizenship to vote.  It’s discriminatory or something.  Look, I have an accent you can cut with an ax.  Would I be offended at being asked for proof of citizenship when I register to vote.  Heck no.  It would be the way I’d know my franchise is secure.  What disturbs me is that in close on thirty years, I’ve never been asked to prove my citizenship to register to vote.  Not once.)