![]() ![]() He produced the 13-issue Pantheon for Lone Star Press and wrote a pair of short novels about the modern adventures of the hero Beowulf, published by the writer's collective, Clockwork Storybook, of which Willingham was a founding member. In the late 1990s Willingham reestablished himself as a prolific writer. He also produced the pornographic series Ironwood for Eros Comix. He contributed stories to Green Lantern and started his own independent, black-and-white comics series Coventry which lasted only 3 issues. However, for reasons unknown, the series had trouble maintaining an original schedule, and Willingham's position in the industry remained spotty for many years. He first gained attention for his 1980s comic book series Elementals published by Comico, which he both wrote and drew. ![]() In the late 1970s to early 1980s he drew fantasy ink pictures for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic and Expert game rulebooks. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Murder was never part of his business model.Īnd finally in Twist of Fate, Charles Salzberg follows Trish Sullivan, an ambitious TV reporter working in a small, upstate New York market. Now he’s playing with the big boys and finds the price of the game way over his head. ![]() Unfortunately, his latest shipment contained some illegal automatic weapons. When he forges a reluctant alliance with his ex-wife’s new lover, he realizes there’s lots of money to be made from the world’s number one smuggled legal product - cigarettes. ![]() Life was so much simpler for Tim O’Mara’s marijuana-selling narrator in Smoked when all he had to worry about was keeping his customers, now ex-wife, and daughter satisfied. ![]() Before the last shot is fired, everything they thought was certain proves to be a shadow and everything they trusted opens into a trap. cops to play out a deadly obsession that takes them from back alley payoffs to hard time in prison, then deep into the tunnel networks south of the border to a murderous town that’s only rumored to exist. Payback leads to an unmarked grave in Ross Klavan’s Thump Gun Hitched. Shadow towns, smugglers and secret notes - this trio of New York authors are a TRIPLE SHOT of twists and turns in three novellas. ![]() ![]() ![]() What that means is that, though everything is grounded in fact, Halliday does not get lost in the details*. Stylistically, Otherlands is a narrative non-fiction book. ![]() ![]() Far more interesting are the little-known eras and places such as the Italian promontory of Gargano during the Miocene Messinian Salinity Crisis (5.3 mya), the sweltering warmth of Seymour Island in Antarctica during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (41 mya), or the underwater life around the Silurian Yaman-Kasy vent in Russia (435 mya). Halliday includes well-known sites such as end-Cretaceous Hell Creek (66 million years ago, or mya) and the Carboniferous world of Mazon Creek (309 mya) or Lagerstätten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) such as the Cambrian Chengjiang biota in China (520 mya) and the Australian Ediacara Hills during the Ediacaran (550 mya). The 16 chapters in Otherlands, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration from Beth Zaiken, step back in time by millions or even tens of millions of years to visit a place on Earth and describe its ecosystems and organisms. Otherlands: A World in the Making, written by Thomas Halliday, published in Europe by Allen Lane in February 2022 (hardback, 385 pages) ![]() |