Heather Bannon (One Pushy Fox) of the Bewitched Bookworms posted her review of Silas today on the site.  It's fantastic, I tell you.  This is also the woman who's charged with running my tour, so I'm definitely in good hands.  Let's say YAY for folks who love our work!

Check out the review - http://www.bewitchedbookworms.com/2011/08/review-silas-by-robert-j.html

I just finished reading Burying Brian, the new release by perhaps my favorite author, Steven Pirie.  I read and reviewed his first book, Digging Up Donald, a couple years ago (read the review here), and that book remains firmly entrenched as the best I've read in the last 20 years.  Now, it has company.  Really, people, Burying Brian is a special book, Pirie is a special writer, and he needs to be huge.  I want his sense of humor and his biting social commentary out there for all to see.  It's that good.

I'll be reviewing Burying Brian for the July issue of Shock Totem Magazine, so keep an eye out for it.

Here's the book cover and blurb:

It's Judgement Day in Mudcaster.

The Mother likes a decent Judgement Day. It's an excuse to give existence a good telling off. But the Mother's hormones are turning Grandmotherly, and the Father thinks she might be entering the Change. It was when the Grandmother before her entered the Change that all the dinosaurs died. It's clear she can't fight for mankind when her hormones are on the march.

To the Mother's annoyance, it's son-in-law Brian who's chosen to answer for the world's sins. Brian's a bit of a damp lettuce, if the truth be told, so what business would he have in standing up to daft gods and barmy demons? If the Mother pictures Brian as a knight of old, it's always with a tarnished shield and a drooping lance.

When Brian goes missing, and the Mother learns the Grandmother is being held captive by demons, the Father offers to take the Mother to Hell and back-what husband wouldn't?-to rescue them. The family must be reunited, else how can they stand firm together at the Trials? And Brian, being Brian, will need all the help he can get if he's really to answer for everyone's sins and save mankind from oblivion.

Burying Brian is a gentle comedy.

No demons or lettuces were harmed in its writing.

We have a new review, and it just might be one of the best ones ever.  Check it out, folks!

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Amanda Hocking, on whose site I wrote an article that was posted at the beginning of this month, has a book out called "Hollowland", a post-apocalyptic zombie tale, which is obviously a genre I adore.  Well, I read the book, and it's fantastic. 

Read the review at the Journal of Always