In nearly 150 reviews, I have not reviewed a short story collection. I do not have an explanation for this oversight other than I don't read a lot of short stories. However, I have reviewed one of my favorite writer's short story collections to end my reading year of...
Book Review 148: The Tiger and the Acrobat by Susanna Tamaro
I mentioned that one of my reading goals for this year was to read more translated fiction. It has been so easy for me to stay on the reading highway of contemporary American Genre and Literary Fiction that's hard to exit it for fiction outside of your borders. The...
Book Review 147: Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay is becoming one of my favorite authors and joining a list that includes Jorge Amado, Jonathan Carroll, and Charles de Lint Sailing to Sarantium will be the second Kay novel I have read this year and the third one in the past couple of years. Sailing to...
Book Review 146: Green Lantern Mosaic #1 by Gerard Jones and Cully Hamner
A reader asked what influenced my fictional world of Kammbia by email a few days ago. I thought about this question since that email and I had always believed my direct influences were Charles de Lint's novels about Newford, Canada and Jorge Amado's novels about...
Kammbia
Welcome to Kammbia.
Escape from your frazzled days.
Enter the world of Kammbia. A world divided. A world of vivid color and fantastical sights and sounds.
A realm where imagination draws you inside. A world where myth and legend intertwine effortlessly with a stark reality that draws strong parallels with our own society of today of imagination and spirituality.
Now, thanks to author Marion Hill—the creative mind behind the Kammbia novels—you too too can immerse yourself in Kammbian life.
Begin your journey into Kammbia below: