So my editor is still pounding away at my manuscript for book #4 in the Forging of a Knight series, The Stolen Thief - convention time is still a few months away, and a skeletal framework for book #5 is waiting for a future flesh-out - what's a beleaguered author to do in the meantime?

Well, read more books, of course! Some vintage gothic horror tales like Blackwood's The Wendigo (similar to his other work, The Willows, which I reviewed, he really gets that creepy atmospheric Blair Witch thing going) and Machen's The White People for starters.

And for a finisher, a meaty 600+ page epic fantasy tale - The Forgotten King, Book Two of Korin's Journal by Brian Beam.

This should keep me busy for now...

http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-King-...