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Despite forays into the mundane worlds of law and IT, Dave Higgins has been unable to escape the liminal zone between fantasy and horror.

Born in the least mystically significant part of Wiltshire, England, and raised by a librarian, he started reading shortly after birth and hasn’t stopped since. He lives with his wife Nicki, Una cat, a plush altar to Cthulhu, and many shelves of books.

It’s rumoured he writes out of fear he will otherwise run out of books to read.

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	Origin (Dragons & Magic #1) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 3.41 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenstar Season 1, Episodes 1-3 by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 3.27 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventure (Dragons & Magic #2) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fauxpocalypse by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Matt Blashill (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Alexandrina Brant (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenstar Complete Season 1: The Space Opera (A Josie Stein Comedy #1) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sorcery (Dragons & Magic #3) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenstar Season 2 (A Josie Stein Comedy #2) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greenstar Season 3 (A Josie Stein Comedy #3) by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author), Simon Cantan (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Red Nose: Fifteen Fears of a Clown by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Willow Croft (Goodreads Author), Eleanor Cawood Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outsiders Within by Dave Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joel Donato Ching Jacob, Dave Ring (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kings of Ruin by Daniel Arenson

Arenson blends an interesting magic system with a world heavily based on classical Mediterranean history, creating gritty military fantasy. In the years since Zohar offered annual tribute to the Aelarian Empire to avoid conquest, Jerael Sela and his family have built comfortable lives distant from the civil war that mars the capital. However, when the … Continue reading Kings of Ruin by Daniel Are Read more of this blog post »

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“The universe wasn’t as convenient as the crew wanted it to be; almost as if organics aren’t the pinnacle of creation. Well, natural organics anyway: some organics are the best of both paths. Despite”
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“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
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“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

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“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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