The second book to make the list from 2007 was Jenna Black’s debut novel, The Devil Inside. Not only did this novel introduce the world to Morgan Kingsley, it really helped establish Spectra (at this point with a roster that included superstars Kelley Armstrong and Keri Arthur) as a force in the urban fantasy/paranormal romance world.
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Doctor Who
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Cage Match 2013!
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New York Comic Con 2012
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Tolkien Re-read
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Cage Match–2012!
Spectra 25th anniversary
Graphic Novels & Manga
25 Years of Spectra: BALTIMORE, OR, THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER AND THE VAMPIRE (2007) by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden
In one of those It’s-a-small-world moments, as I was getting ready to write up this post for our first 2007 selection to the 25 Years of Spectra list, I happen to run into one of the authors in the building. Christopher Golden is in town visiting, and had just gotten back from breakfast with [...]
Read MoreWith her second appearance on the 25 Years of Spectra list, Ellen Kushner talks about her 2006 novel (following her collaboration with Delia Sherman on The Fall of the Kings), The Privilege of the Sword and the difficulties of coming up with a title.
“The naming of books is a difficult matter.
Either you get the perfect [...]
Read MoreIt’s kind of amazing to think it was only FOUR years ago that Riley Jenson popped into the literary consciousness.
Nine books later (nine!), Riley’s adventures have come to an end with this past Spring’s Moon Sworn, but her legacy (and Keri Arthur’s, of course) certainly lives on.
What’s kind of nice about a series ending, though, [...]
If someone asked me who my favorite new fantasy author is, I’d be torn. I love Ari Marmell, but I’m also a bit biased, as I’m his editor. And I think Patrick Rothfuss is doing some great things (I love the write-ups he did for our Cage Match), although I wish he’d do [...]
Read MoreA bit of fantasy for Spectra’s 20th year: Michael A. Stackpole’s A Secret Atlas, the first book in the Age of Discovery trilogy, as discussed by the author himself.
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“The Secret Atlas was a departure from what I’d done in the past. Unlike a lot of fantasy novels, I [...]
Read MoreLinnea might be one of the nicest people I know–and I’ve never met her!
All my interactions with her have been through e-mail, and yet I’ve yet to come away from a message from her and not feel good about myself.
That takes a special kind of person, I think.
Throw on top of that the fact that [...]
Five years ago, when Spectra turned twenty, Elizabeth Bear wrote Hammered, the first book in the Jenny Casey Trilogy.
Below, Elizabeth and her editor, Anne Groell, discuss working together for the first time.
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“Since Hammered was published, I have written or cowritten eighteen novels and more than sixty short stories. [...]
Kim Stanley Robinson, who already made our list with Red Mars, now discusses the first book in his Science in the Capital series, Forty Signs of Rain. His editor on this series, Anne Groell, also includes here thoughts.
“My trip with the National Science Foundation to Antarctica, in 1995, had put me in contact with [...]
Read MoreI remember being handed M. John Harrison’s Light by former Spectra editor Juliet Ulman with the caveat: “People either really love this book or people either really hate this book.”
I didn’t know her well enough at the time, but there was almost certainly a little look in her eyes that said “You’re going to hate [...]
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