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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 1:21 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Just noticed that Chris Butler posted a review at The Fix.
thefix-online.com/reviews/flashing-swords-10/

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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 2:06 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Now that was a great review. Struck the right balance between summary and analysis.

Congrats to FS # 10 for yet another great review, and cheers to Michael Ehart for impressing Mr. Butler!

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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 2:32 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I think Chris did a very good job on the review. A tad negative in places but that's a good thing, really. Everyone go read it then please, go visit the Fix forums and make comments.

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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 2:35 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well, I appreciate a little negativity in a review. It makes the standouts really shine, and makes the review feel a more "legitimate".

I mean, you KNOW he liked the issue, because he's not shy of saying when something didn't work for him, and would have if he hadn't liked it.

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Honestly, even if I weren't involved, this review would still make me want to read the anthology magazine. Can't ask for much more than that.

It is rough when you are the writer singled out for criticism, but he was pretty gentle even with those.

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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 5:34 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I thought the entire review of issue 10 was quite good. I certainly can't complain with what he wrote about mine. I was just happy to be included with so many talented authors.

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MichaelEhart said...
Honestly, even if I weren't involved, this review would still make me want to read the anthology.


Me too. Course, it's not an anthology, it's the current issue of FS ;)
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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 6:17 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Tired :) Of course. Corrected above!

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"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008
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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 7:47 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
that was exciting to go read. very flattered - nice pick me up after the overtime.

didn't see that there was a post started over there to reply to. did i miss something?

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  		   Posted 5/22/2008 7:58 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
There isn't a post started over there. Perhaps you might be willing to start one?

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  		   Posted 5/23/2008 8:04 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
done :)
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  		   Posted 5/25/2008 2:55 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I think Chris's review was excellent and useful to the authors. He has a sharp eye for story problems and assessing a story as the sum of its parts - and he says what he thinks, but gently.

Chris is also a fine writer and has had stories in Asimov's, Interzone and elsewhere. Check out his website

www.chris-butler.co.uk/

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