July / August Round up!

Well as always it's been a busy couple of months on Un:bound, so to make sure you catch the highlights, here are some of the things that have gone up over hte last two months.

Ravenous Wednesday
Open forum: Why does romance get a hard time?
Rock, Paper, Tiger author Lisa Brackmann guests.
Stephen Prosapio author of Dream War guests.
CM Kempe talks about Fairy Tales.

Vincent Holland-Keen posted on the alternate wednesdays
You should be ashamed of yourself and your lunatic ways! on the subject of bells and whistles
In which fictional animals are once again mistreated. regarding conflict and drama
In which I use a number of lists - on feedback
he also rather foolishly left me unsupervised so we have issued a challenge.

The Un:Covered posts spoofed
Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch
The Girl and the Detective by Chas E Blaney & J Searle Dawley
Say it with Bullets by Richard Powell
well worth checking out and yes I now find myself scouring bookshops for spoofable covers as much as good books.

Writers Reading has seen visits from
Andrew Newbound author of Demon Strike
Stephanie Burges author of A Most Improper Magick
and Paul Jessup who wrote Werewolves (a journal with art style book which I shall be reviewing in September)

Events wise
Keith shared his comments on the Justin Cronin Signing
and the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Festival
For our thoughts on events and a round up of other comments check out the connections page

Other articles of particular interest included new reviewer Chris Winterton's
Universes in Review, pts 1, 2 and 3 covering the warhammer universes.
(a full list of ravenous wednesdays, vince's posts and other articles is available on the articles page).

We Interviewed
Jeremy Duns, author of Free Agent
Steve Mosby & John Rickards/Sean Cregan who worte, Still Bleeding and The Levels respectively.
Full list of interviews on Un:Bound is here.

Review wise there was as always plenty going on, check out the Reviews page for the full list.
Reviews in the last couple fo months included (but not exhaustively)
The Folding Knife by KJ Parker
Who is Conrad Hirst by Kevin Wignall
The Mouse that Roared by Leonard Wibberly
Still Bleeding by Steve Mosby
WWW: Wake by Robert J Sawyer
Fairy Tale by Hiro Mashima
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Ghost Dance by Rebecca Levene
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
There are of course lots lots more for you to enjoy in the archives.