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Well, here's my 2022 list of books read. Read the reviews if you want to know more. Happy New Year.

 

1.      John Scalzi: Fuzzy Nation

2.      Lois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of Souls – Five Gods #2

3.      Simon Beaufort: Deadly Inheritance – Sir Geoffrey Mappestone #6

4.      Genevieve Cogman The Untold Story – Invisible Library #8

5.      Una McCormac: Star Trek Picard: The Last Best Hope

6.      Terry Pratchett: Mort – Discworld #4

7.      S J Bennett: The Windsor Knot

8.      Terry Pratchett: Night Watch – Discworld #29

9.      Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites – Discworld #3

10.  Jacey Bedford: The Amber Crown

11.  Adrian Tchaikovsky: Elder Race

12.  Sebastien de Castell: Tales of the Greatcoats – Greatcoats #5

13.  John Scalzi: The Dispatcher – The Dispatcher #1

14.  John Scalzi: Murder by Other Means – The Dispatcher #2

15.  Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters – Discworld #6

16.  Meagan Spooner: Sherwood

17.  Peng Shepherd: The Cartographers

18.  Sean Lusk: The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudsley

19.  Anna Harrington: A Relentless Rake

20.  John Scalzi: The Kaiju Preservation Society

21.  Jodi Taylor: A Catalogue of Catastrophe – St Mary's #13

22.  Lianne Dillsworth: Theatre of Marvels

23.  Elizabeth Vaughan: Warprize – Chronicles of the Warprize #1

24.  Bernard Cornwell: The Winter King – Warlord Chronicles #1

25.  Olivie Blake: The Atlas Six – Alexandrian Society #1

26.  Davies, Russell T and Cook, Benjamin: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter

27.  Martha Wells: Artificial Condition – Murderbot Diaries #2

28.  Sophie Irwin: A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting

29.  Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana

30.  Ed McDonald: Daughter of Redwinter - Redwinter Chronicles #1

31.  Amy Rose Bennett: Up all Night with a Good Duke

32.  T. Kingfisher: Nettle and Bone

33.  Lavie Tidhar: The Escapement

34.  Brandon Sanderson: Dawnshard – Stormlight Archive Novella

35.  Sophia Holloway: Kingscastle

36.  Diana Wynne Jones: Deep Secret – Magids #1

37.  Diana Wynne Jones: The Merlin Conspiracy – Magids #2

38.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Warrior’s Apprentice – Vorkosigan #3

39.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Barrayar: Vorkosigan #2

40.  Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vor game – Vorkosigan #5

41.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Shards of Honour – Vorkosigan #1

42.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Cetaganda – Vorkosigan

43.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Komarr - Vorkosigan

44.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Brothers in Arjms - Vorkosigan

45.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Diplomatic Immunity – Vorkosigan

46.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of Infinity – Vorkosigan

47.  Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary

48.  Dennis E Taylor: We are Legion (We are Bob)

49.  Lois McMaster Bujold: A Civil Campaign

50.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Winterfair Gifts – Vorkosigan

51.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Cryoburn - Vorkosigan

52.  Ash Bishop: Intergalactic Exterminators Inc.

53.  Jodi Ellen Malpas: One Night with the Duke – Belmore Square #1

54.  Naomi Novik: The Last Graduate – Scholomance #2

55.  Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol – Murderbot #3

56.  Sebastien de Castell: The Fox and the Bowman

57.  Liz Williams: Embertide – Fallow Sisters #3

58.  Jess Kidd: The Night Ship

59.  Terry Pratchett: Guards Guards – Discworld #8

60.  Terry Pratchett: Small Gods – Discworld #11

61.  Terry Pratchett: Soul Music – Discworld #16

62.  Terry Pratchett: The Truth – Discworld #25

63.  Karen Traviss: Mother Death – Nomad #2

64.  Elizabeth Chadwick: The Conquest

65.  Juliet E McKenna: The Green Man's Gift – Green Man #5

66.  Jim C Hines: Terminal Uprising – Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse #2

67.  T. Kingfisher: Paladin’s Strength – Saint of Steel #2 Audiobook

68.  C.S.Forester: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower– Hornblower #1 Audiobook

69.  T. Kingfisher: Paladin’s Grace – Saint of Steel #1 Audiobook

70.  Lindsey Davis: Falco, the Complete BBC Radio Collection Audiobook

71.  Jim Hines: Terminal Peace – Janitors of the Post Apocalypse #3

72.  Jodi Taylor: About Time – Time Police #4

73.  Jodi Taylor: A Catalogue of Catastrophe – St Mary’s #13

74.  Jodi Taylor: The Toast of Time – St Mary’s 12.5 – Audiobook

75.  Jodi Taylor: About Time – Time Police #4 – Audiobook

76.  Lois McMaster Bujold: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen – Vorkosiverse #17

77.  Kevin Hearne: Carniepunk: The Demon Barker of Wheat Street – Iron Druid #4.4 Audiobook

78.  T. KingfisherL Clockwork Boys

79.  T. Kingfisher: The Wonder Engine

80.  Jennifer Paxton: The Story of Medieval England from King Arthur to the Tudor Congest – Great Courses Series

81.  Tanya Huff: Into the Broken Lands

82.  Sarah Page: Mrs Wickham

83.  T. Kingfisher: Swordheart

84.  Jason Fung: The Obesity Code

85.  Paul Cornell: The Witches of Lychford

86.  Gilly Cooper: Riders

87.  Jodi Taylor: The Very First Damn Thing – St Mary’s

88.  Jodi Taylor: Santa Grint – Time Police short

89.  Marshall Ryan Maresca: The Holver Alley Crew – Streets of Maradaine

90.  Meredith Bond: Princess on the Run. – Royals and Rebels #2

 

 



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Is it weird to read and review your own book? Just so you know that this review is biased because I know what went into the writing of The Amber Crown.

I wanted to write a character-driven fantasy with a more unusual background than a generic medievaloid setting, so I set this in a fantasy version of the Baltic States in the 1600s. My fictioinal country of Zavonia is approximately where Latvia and Lithuania live today. It's beset by ambitious neighbours but it's holding its own under the enlightened King Konstantyn, that is until he's assassinated. (That's not a spoiler, it happens on the first page.)

My three viewpoint characters, Valdas, the king's (failed) bodyguard, Mirza, the witch-healer of a Landstrider band, and Lind, the clever assassin who sets off the whole sorry tale in the first place, start out separately but come together in an attempt to set things right before Zavonia is embroiled in a war on two fronts which it cannot win.

So what can you expect? There's peril, sex, a bit of gore, whorehouses, itinerant Landstriders, one harrowing backstory, magic of two different kinds, a cranky horse with long ears, a massive knock-down-drag-out fight, cavalry with wings, a particularly smelly corpse... and cabbage. The cast is diverse with backstories that shape their actions.

I hope you like it. Happy to answer questions.
 
 
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I'm continuing the possibly inadvisable attempt to review a book I've written. I had a genuine excuse this time; I'm a core author for an upcoming anthology Brave New Worlds for Zombies Need Brains Press, and I've suggested that I write something set in my Psi-Tech universe. I have an idea to continue the story of two secondary characters who walked out of Nimbus towards the end, and I needed to refresh my memory of them and the exact circumstances of their leaving. It's five years since I wrote this, so I'd forgotten some of the details. (Hey, I've written more books since then.)

Nimbus follows on from the massive space battle at the end of Crossways. The station, now in orbit above Olyanda, is being rebuilt piecemeal, Garrick is still determined to forge alliances with other independent worlds to keep the megacorporations at bay. Someone is killing Free Company telepaths (mind to mind, from a distance) so Cara is on a galaxy-wide quest to find the woman who is the key to unlocking source code in the psi-tech implants in order to keep them safe. Ben is still having nightmares about the dark entity in foldspace, the Nimbus, so menacing it even frightens the void dragons. When people lost many years ago in the Folds start coming back it seems like a reason to celebrate, but is it? They haven't aged a day, even the ones lost fifty years ago. Who are they really and why do they return with murderous intent? Ben and Cara reach a conclusion, but no one is going to like it, especially the megacorps. Ben is still at the top of their most-wanted list and if he has to give himself up in order to make a point, he will do, aided and abetted by Cara, the Free Company, and his formidable grandparents.

 

If the plot seems episodic at first, don't worry, it all comes together in the end. The Nimbus will change how mankind navigates the stars.
 
 
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Perhaps I shouldn't review my own book. After all, I could just say best-book-ever, please buy it, and leave it at that, but I wrote Crossways in 2014 and it came out in 2015 and I haven't read it since... so taking time and distance into account, I'd forgotten some of the detail, and I ended up reading it as a reader, not as a writer... and... I enjoyed it.  It's the middle book of the Psi-Tech trilogy, sandwiched between Empire of Dust and Nimbus. The pace is relentless and the multi-stranded plot plays out with main characters, Cara and Ben, whose viewpoints did the heavy lifting in Empire of Dust.

At the end of Empire of Dust, Ben, Cara, the psi-techs and the settlers sold the planet Olyanda and its platinum reserves to criminal-with-ambitions, Garrick, and took refuge on Crossways, rogue space station, or maybe space station of rogues. They'd outmanoeuvred two megacorporations and lived to tell the tale, but an ark ship with 30,000 more settlers frozen in cryo, is missing presumed lost in space. Ben has promised to investigate and Ben always keeps his promises. Cara is searching to find a new home for the displaced settlers before they drive Garrick bonkers with their unreasonable demands. The psi-techs have decided that since the megacorps want them dead, they'll stick together and form The Free Company (psi-techs for hire). Ben and Cara are on everyone's most-wanted list. They bested the megacorps once, but it doesn't mean that they have escaped free and clear. Expect ambush, treachery, space battles, family in peril, very strange aliens, and an impossible flight.

Cara is a top-grade telepath. Ben is a psi-tech Navigator, able to fly that liminal space beween jump gates. He's been trained to believe the 'visions' in Foldspace aren't real, but there's something sentient in the Folds that is certainly NOT an illusion - a big scary void dragon. In order to find the missing settlers they are going to have to brave foldspace again and again and Ben's not sure he can do it any more.

I recommend starting with Empire of Dust, but if you start with this one I don't think you'll find catching up a problem. I'm always happy to answer questions if you have any. Thanks for reading.

PS, The cover is by the hugely talented Stephan Martiniere and I love it. www.martiniere.com
 
 
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Nimbus, the third and final book in my Psi-Tech trilogy is out now from DAW. I can't believe I waited ten whole days to post it here. I've been busy doing the kind of things that you do when a new book comes out - writing guest blog posts, doing interviews for web sites and generally trying to publicise it without being obnoxious and yelling BUY MY BOOK! (Even though that's what I mean.)

In actual fact what I should be doing is yelling BUY MY TRILOGY! because Empire of Dust, Crossways and Nimbus, are three sections of a continuous story.

But, hey, this isn't a hard sell. Buy it and read it if you like space opera, psionics, little guys fighting big corporations, space battles, personal conflicts, mysterious aliens and a touch or romance. If that's not your thing, then steer clear.

I'd be interested to hear from anyone who read either Crossways or Nimbus as a first introduction to the Psi-Tech universe. I'm too close to it all to judge whether they can be read as standalones. I hope they can. I think any reader would quickly pick up what was going on.

Not read any of them yet?

Well...

In a galaxy where the megacorporations are more powerful that any individual government, and ambitious executives play fast and loose with ethics in order to secure resources from the colonies, where can good people turn for help? The megacorps control the jump-gates, using implant-enhanced telepaths, psi-techs. They have these psi-techs trapped with unbreakable contracts, lacking for nothing—except freedom.

But there are some free psi-techs who have escaped the megacorps. Reska (Ben) Benjamin and Cara Carlinni lead the Free Company, based on the rogue space-station, Crossways; and there are rumours of Sanctuary, a place that takes in runaway psi-techs and allows them to disappear quietly.

The megacorps have struck at Crossways once—and failed—so what are they planning now? Crossways can't stand alone, and neither can the independent colonies, though maybe together they have a chance.

But something alien and very, very dangerous is stirring in the depths of foldspace. Something bigger than the petty squabbles between megacorps and independents. Until now, humans have had a free hand in the Galaxy, settling colony after colony, but that might have to change now that the Nimbus is coming.

So there you have it. If you do read it, then I always appreciate honest reviews on Goodreads or your own blogs or websites, facebook or twitter. If anyone out there would like to host a blog post or an interview for me, you can contact me via my writing website.

Here's what I wrote over on my other blog at https://jaceybedford.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/happy-book-day-to-me-2/
 

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News: 2017

1st August
Looking forward to Worldcon in Helsinki. I have one panel on Sunday afternoon 13th August: 15:00 - 16:00, 216 (Messukeskus) History as World Building. Using knowledge and research of real-life history as world-building fantasy and science fiction. Thomas Årnfelt, Jacey Bedford, Heather Rose Jones (M), Jo Walton, Angus Watson

27th July
New blog post:
Bladdered or Shitfaced? The gentle art of word choice and the bogglement of page-proofing.
11th July
New blog post Corwen Silverwolf Speaks
26th June
New blog post History Lends Perspective
13th June
New blog post Life, Death and the Writer’s Pen

28th May
New blog post Some Random Thoughts on Revisions and Edits

16th May
New blog post on Due Process
2nd May
New blog post on Worldbuilding for a Series
20th April
New blog post on Committing Trilogy

19th April
Two pairs of Rowankind books (Winterwood and Silverwolf) will be up for auction at Con or Bust on 24th April to raise funds to send fans of colour to conventions.

4th April
New blog post on Cover reveal NIMBUS
22nd March
New blog post on Stories Far and Near
21st February
New blog post on Agent Update
17th February
New Blog post available now on Keeping your Nose to the Grindstone.
10th February
I'm sad to say goodbye to my literary agent, Amy Boggs, but delighted to announce that my new literary agent is Donald Maass of DMLA
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4th February
I am interviewed for File 770. With a book giveaway. Thanks to Mike Glyer for hosting and Carl Slaughter for writing.

28th January
My guest post for the Qwilley on half-and-half worldbuilding is now up.

27th January
My guest post on Beginning at the Beginning is now up at Unbound Worlds.
24th January
My blog post on Ten Quick Tips for Writers is available now
16th January
My guest post is up on the I Smell Sheep blog. Corwen speaks out.
14th January
My guest blog on alt.history versus historical fantasy on Arched Doorway.
9th January
My post on the publication of Silverwolf is up today on my blog

Silverwolf3rd January

BOOK DAY!

Silverwolf is out today!

3rd January
Great to see Silverwolf mentioned in new releases at Tor.com
3rd January
What Has Milford Ever Done for Me? My guest blog post is up on the Milford blog today.
3rd January
Nice review of Silverwolf from JoJo the Bookaholic:
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In other news, tomorrow is our 45th wedding anniversary. Forty five! You do understand that I was a child bride, I hope. If they hadn't lowered the voting age I wouldn't even have been able to vote, yet I could get married and jointly own a mortgaged house!

BB says 45 is our Sapphire anniversary and so a couple of days ago he took me into Huddersfield and we came back with a sapphire and diamond eternity ring - narrow and very delicate. I look forward to seeing if it still fits tomorrow!

We didn't have a proper photographer (too expensive) so we ended up with a series of snaps. Brian and I are pretty obviously 'bride and groom' but the others are, left to right: Brian's Mum, Evelyn Bedford (Brian's dad was there as well but got chopped off by the photo-snapper), Best Man, John Louth, just peeping up from the back between me and Brian is my maternal grandpa, Tommy Bennett, then my dad, Tony Lockyer, my mum, Joan Lockyer, wearing a lampshade on her head, and my grandma, Annie Bennett. We lost touch with John when he emigrated to South Africa many years ago, and of the rest, only my mum is left, so this holds a lot of memories.
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CrosswaysIt's BOOK DAY! Crossways, my second novel, is out today.

What starts out as a search for survivors turns into a battle for survival. Space stations, corrupt corporations, telepathy, relationships and something moving in the depths of foldspace.

Not read the first one yet? Empire of Dust is still available, of course. Empire made the Locus Best Seller list in the month it was published. For Crossways to do the same it would be great if those of you who are going to buy it (if you haven't already, do so today or within the next few days. That would be fab. (No pressure, just if...) One small step for readingkind - one giant leap for Jacey!

Where to get it. If you're in the USA/Canada then all good bookstores,  Amazon/ Barnes & Noble etc. It's available as paperback or electronic version (Kindle Nook etc.). If you're in the UK then it's a bit more limited due to it being an American import, but Amazon.co.uk has it.  or Forbidden Planet if you're lucky enough to have a branch in your area.'re lucky enough to have a branch in your area.

If you want some background on the Psi-Tech universe then there's a page on my website here: http://www.jaceybedford.co.uk/psi-tech.htm

And a reminder, not just for my book, but for all books. If you like a book, talk about it, post to facebook, twitter, your blog. Tell your friends. Make recommendations. With fewer and fewer bookshops on the High Street, browsing is limited, so the best way for news to get out about new books is by word of mouth.

Thank you, readers, reviewers, bloggers, retweeters, facebookers. Without you...

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