Reviews are coming in on the Space Battles anthology and my short story, First Contact. BookWormBlues had this to say: On the flip side, my favorite story in the anthology was First Contact by Patrick Hester. While it did have some obvious scifi influences, and the ending was a bit odd, Patrick has some...
The weekend was good to me. 3400 words one day, 4300 the next. Not too shabby. When I started writing Cold as Ice, the story flowed really well. I wrote the first part fairly quickly before my mind, racing ahead, forced me to skip a pivotal scene so I could get the second chunk...
Soulless by Gail Carriger My rating: 4 of 5 stars I picked this book up after talking with the lovely and engaging Gail Carriger for the SF Signal podcast. Karen Burnham, blogger for SF Signal, for her own site http://spiralgalaxyreviews.blogspot.com/ and Editor of the Locus Magazine RoundTable Blog (http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/), had read Soulless and the...
Think of these posts as the opposite of a review – cuz I haven’t actually read the book yet… I have impulse control problems – especially when it comes to buying books. SO, this results in my always having a pile of paperbacks sitting around waiting to be read. Books like: Medalon, by Jennifer...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth in the series from JK Rowling and the first that I read before seeing the movie, which may have colored my experience just a bit. I want to say up front that I enjoyed the film, I really did. It was a good movie for...
I’ve been reading the Dresden files for a while now, so I’m really hooked. “Blood Rites” is by no means the latest book in the series, it’s simply the latest one I’ve read and I really liked it. Harry Dresden: Wizard. That’s what the sign says and that’s exactly what Harry is – a...
About Patrick:
Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo Nominated Podcast Producer/Host who lives in Colorado and writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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