How time flies. Dark Heart, the superb horror fantasy by Darren Guest, is a year old this week. Here's a cracking review that's just come in, by way of celebration. Buy it here.

Gosh, we do have some talented authors. Not content with writing the thing: Sarah Bryant has done a promotional video for her latest book Riven. Have a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQAcIyOYaF0&feature=youtu.be

Snowbooks.com will not so much be 'down' as 'patchily populated' for about 45 mins this evening. I'm pushing a fairly hefty change which will require an upload of data as well as code, which can take a bit of time. So forgive any rather spare-looking pages you come across between about 8 and 9pm tonight. I thank you.

(I should say that once the push is completed, you won't see much difference - it's a big change to the code of the website, rather than the look and feel or content. If you see something remarkably different after about 9pm, then something's gone horribly wrong...)

Cracking interview with Mark Hodder at his Forbidden Planet signing last week. Thanks too to our indefatigable printers CPI for pulling out all the stops and getting copies there on time. Nowt like a signing with no books...

Charlie Stross has clearly thought it through. If you have a few minutes, why not read what he has to say about the current state of publishing, the dangers of an Amazon monopoly (and monopsony), and what publishing's next move has to be. Sneak preview: ditching DRM on e-books is the only way to open up the market and put some pressure on Amazon. Read the post here.

What's the collective noun for reviews? 'Splurge' will do.

Look! Here's one for Bound. And here's one for Wildthyme Beyond! And now here's another one for Bound!

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