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The Tome has Arrived…

My friends.

There comes a time in our lives, a time when you really can’t think of a better opening than that same “there comes a time” line that has been used for basically every shitty movie that has come…

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LepreCon Report!

A number of you might recall me mentioning appearing at LepreCon this past week.

A greater number of you might recall me raving wildly about my appearing at LepreCon and begging you over a tear-stained copy of Tome of the

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Sam Sykes’ Birthday List

It is currently May 10th.  Tomorrow is May 11th, also known as Sam Sykes Day, the day in which Sam Sykes cleaned the Augean Stables, defeated the Royal British Fleet, successfully landed at Normandy and cracked the human genome.  It…

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The Tome Beckons…

It is April 15th!  A day that shall live in infamy as the day Caesar was assassinated, Hitler invaded Poland, mankind walked on the moon and Joe Abercrombie clove the hand of God from His wrist.  And it all happened…

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Rise From Your Grave!

Blogging is a particularly funny thing.  It’s so often associated with time-wasting and dilly and/or dallying by various people with “real” jobs like swineherding and prostitution that there is this sort of underlying pressure to write something interesting with every…

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Release Date? More like Release Wait!

In two days, it’s February 18th.  This is a significant date for a few reasons.  It is the day when Pluto was discovered.  It marks the first publication of Mark Twain in the United States.  It is the day when…

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Biiiiiig Wiiiinneeeer!

Bum-bum bum-bum bum-bum bum bum.

…that…that was meant to sound like a drum announcing the winners, not me just saying a synonym for a posterior over and over. Though, if you’d all like to talk about butts for…

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Agony Column: Lou Anders <3s Sam Sykes

Hey! HEY!

It’s 2010! A lot of lists for favorite books of the year, favorite publishers for the year, favorite Indian restaurants for the year (Punjab or G.T.F.O., yo), but a lot of people seem to be forgetting that 2010…

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Holidays May Be Rough, But…

At least you’re not that guy!

That’s Otis, usually quite jovial, in a rare state of Christmas Scarf Blues. His suffering is your gingerbread cookie.

You wouldn’t think blogging would be hard, would you? It’s really just writing…

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Holidays May Be Rough, But…

At least you’re not that guy!

That’s Otis, usually quite jovial, in a rare state of Christmas Scarf Blues. His suffering is your gingerbread cookie.

You wouldn’t think blogging would be hard, would you? It’s really just writing…

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Who is Sam?

Sam Sykes is the author of The Aeons’ Gate trilogy, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage.  Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature.

At 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy.  Tome of the Undergates and Black Halo are currently published in nine countries.  He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now.

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