I had known about Anne Bishop’s fiction for some time before actually reading more than excerpts. Partly this is budgetary restraint on my part - so many books, so little time - and partly it’s that the opening of Daughter of the Blood, the first book in the Black Jewels trilogy, wasn’t quite compelling enough […]

“Julie dark is Anne light and fluffy.”
A common saying in Julie Czerneda’s SFF.net newsgroup.
A traditional way to describe Anne Bishop’s entrance to the realms of fantasy and science fiction would be to say she burst onto the scene ten years ago with the first novel of the Black Jewels trilogy, Daughter of the Blood. It […]