Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

FROM CELIA HAYES:  Adelsverein:The Complete Trilogy.

 

The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the “Mainzer Adelsverein” – the society of noblemen of Mainz, who tried to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Christian “Vati” Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda – passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater, in the boom years of the great cattle ranches. Their brothers Friedrich and Johann, have always been close – in the Civil War, one will wear Union blue, the other Confederate grey homespun – but never forget they are brothers. And finally, there is Vati’s adopted daughter Rosalie, whose life ends as it began – in tragedy. But Vati’s family will will survive and ultimately triumph. They will make their mark in Texas, their new land. Adelsverein: It’s about love and loss, joy and grief . . . and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.

I DID ONE OF THOSE FREE SHORT STORY THINGS, AGAIN: Magic Mirror.

It’s short and silly and… it happens.

WE DIDN’T KNOW WHETHER TO LAUGH OR CRY AT JEEP’S ATTEMPT TO SELL TO DEPLORABLES:  READ THE ROOM, JEEP!

But Larry Correia’s take definitely made us laugh.

YOU WANT ME TO STICK A SWAB IN THIS TIGER’S WHAT????  Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo tigers test positive for COVID-19.

Also as I understand a papaya also tested positive. Look guys, the tests are not what we’d call reliable.  They’re bad enough one wonders if their purpose is to have enough false positives to cause panic.

THE PROBLEM WITH MOST ART — AND BOOKS — THESE DAYS IS THAT THEY AIM FOR PROPAGANDA:  PROPAGANDA VERSUS ART.

FROM CEDAR SANDERSON:  One Hungry Werewolf: And Other Monstrous Rhymes.

When you’re a werewolf, you make your own friends…
Step inside the covers and meet the monsters so creepy and so adorable that you may want to invent a new word to describe them! We like “creepydorable” but you could come up with your own.
Inside you’ll find blobs, a mad scientist, and an awful lot of bats, but we invite you to begin at the beginning, with just…
One Hungry Werewolf.