Editor’s note: Laura Bickle is the author of Dark Alchemy, a western-tinged fantasy fantasy billed as a mix of The Gunslinger and Breaking Bad. With her book coming out on April 28, we’re giving her a chance to discuss one of its primary antagonists—the trickster god Coyote, a mainstay in legends and lore. Coyote doesn’t follow the […]
April leaves us with a hefty slate of new releases on its way out the door, including a Star Wars book that peeks at a dysfunctional Dark Jedi relationship; a long-awaited, gear-shifting second novel; and the launch of two new fantasy series.
My grandfather lives in Wyoming. My time visiting him there planted in me a love for the entire region and its history. Within the last year, I’ve been exploring the stranger side of my obsession by delving into the “weird western” fantasy subgenre, and Laura Bickle’s latest Wildlands Novel, Nine of Stars, may be one of my favorite examples […]
December is the perfect season for a binge, be it on food (it’s sweater weather), alcohol (family time ahoy!), or books and television (it’s cold outside!). Well, we can’t tell you what to eat or drink, but we relish telling you what books to read to scratch a particular itch. In that spirit, this holiday […]
The Western is part of the American mythology. There’s just something about those wide open spaces and their freedom from law and order that fires our imaginations. Rockstar Games knows this—which is why they’ve just announced they are returning to the wide vistas and strange haunts of their own Western series, Red Dead Redemption, with a highly anticipated […]