My review of Mike Shevdon's Sixty-One Nails is up at Fantasy Literature. It's a good enough fantasy for a first novel, though I think it's weighed down by its length. I'll be reading the next in the series (trilogy?) relatively soon; we'll see if Shevdon gets better as he goes along!

My latest Magazine Monday column is now up at Fantasy Literature. This week I write about the four most recent issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, an online magazine of "literary adventure fantasy," as it describes itself. There is some excellent fiction in these issues, as you'll see from my review.

My review of Alan F. Troop's The Dragon Delasangre is up at Fantasy Literature. While I enjoyed the different depiction of a dragon -- here a fairly unique character -- I thought that Troop's ideas outstripped his writing ability. MAybe the sequels are better, but unless I stumble across one in the library, I'm unlikely to read them.