7/7/26
TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME is finally available on Nook, long after the other eBook versions were made available. If you want a case study in a corporation losing all faith in one of its products or divisions, all you have to do is look at how Nook has operated over the last year. The widespread glitches, the alleged payment delays, and the fact that (one I can attest to personally) some authors have had to send repeated emails and make repeated phone calls to say, “Hi. My eBook has been stuck in processing for four months” does not inspire confidence for the road ahead.
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A follow-up to yesterday’s Blog entry, and my consternation that S. P. Miskowski’s Skillute Cycle of novels weren’t currently available. Twenty four hours later, they are! Here’s the exclusive pre-order link for paperback, hardcover, and eBook!
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Women In Horror Year: Day 76
Desperate Wishes by Candace Nola
In the not distant future, civilization as we know it is unrecognizable. People are property, and names are stripped away, replaced by obligation.
Mackenna is treated as less than a person, as lesser than a beast. In her pain and rage, she opens herself to a voice that promises the fires of change.
There are books in an author’s career with which you can, at a later date, mark their development as a writer. To use myself as an example, there are marked differences in voice, style, and tone between THE RISING or EARTHWORM GODS versus GHOUL or DARK HOLLOW and again with THE COMPLEX or ISLAND OF THE DEAD. Or, if you want to use my nonfiction as a further example, it’s the difference between the early HAIL SATEN stuff and END OF THE ROAD. Writers never stop developing. Your fifth novel will show off polish that your first novel didn’t possess. Your fiftieth novel will show tricks you could have never pulled off successfully in your fifth novel.
Desperate Wishes by Candace Nola is such a marker. It’s a work by an already talented writer who is now more comfortable with her voice and style, and willing to take some risks and challenge herself. With that risk-taking comes a poignant, timely, harrowing work of socially conscious dystopian horror, set in an all-too-believable near future. Comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale or The Folk of the Fringe are a given, but mere starting points for a wholly original take on those tropes that are staggering. This is raw, emotional, angry prose, and it will evoke those same emotions in the reader, and leave you shaken and wide-eyed.
Desperate Wishes by Candace Nola is available in paperback and eBook from Uncomfortably Dark.
