In August I’ll be appearing at the Queens Book Festival and the Writer’s Digest Conference. Hope you can come by to watch the panels, get your book signed, or just to say hi!
Sunday, August 7th, Marquee …
Thanks to Noah Beit-Aharon, the video of our “Bible as Fantasy Literature Panel” from Arisia 2016 is now available for your viewing pleasure. This was a lot of fun so I’m happy it’s now online.
Here’s the description:
…“What can
The Reporter Group, the Jewish Federation of Greater Binghamton, New York, praises King of Shards in their latest review.
…“Kressel does an excellent job in fashioning a fantasy world based on Jewish lore and in creating interesting characters and a
At the Washington Independent Review of Books, Craig L. Gidney interviews me about portal fantasies, Syfy’s The Magicians, adapting mythology for fiction. Jewish fantasy, Sybil’s Garage, and the follow up to King of Shards, Queen of Static.
You …
Over at Goodreads, I’ve started a discussion group for King of Shards and the forthcoming Queen of Static. The group is for general Q&A and discussions about both books. There will likely be spoilers for book one, but …
So it went like this: my sister sent me a link to someone who had given a great review of King of Shards on Goodreads, and while there I noticed another book was listed besides mine: Queen of Static…
Over at Fran Wilde’s Cooking the Books, Ellen Datlow and I share inside secrets about the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, the esoteric art of anthology editing, and the black divination of novel writing. Fran has a …
I feel like a whale who has just come up for air or the hermit who has reentered civilization after months of seclusion. The reason? I just turned in the manuscript for Queen of Static, the follow-up to last …
King of Shards has just been released as an audiobook in the United Kingdom and the European Union, which is great news, because some people had contacted me who wanted to download the audiobook, only to find the audiobook wasn’t …
Over at Fantasy Scroll Magazine, Iulian Ionescu interviews me in their December issue. I give my life story in three paragraphs, wax philosophical about character creation, and give (gasp!) advice to aspiring writers. Not for the faint of heart! Here’s …
Over at The Brooklyn Rail, Valya Dudycz Lupescu interviews me about King of Shards and my short fiction, delving deep into themes that recur frequently in my work. And Valya really dug deep, finding themes I wasn’t consciously aware of …
I’ll be a guest on Jim Freund’s Hour of the Wolf radio program tonight, broadcast on WBAI 99.5 FM and streamed / archived on wbai.org. The show will air at 1:30 AM EST, and will be available for three months …
Update: the raffle has ended and the winners have been notified. Thanks for participating!
On Friday, December 18th at 10am EST (The raffle has ended) I’ll be raffling off five copies of the King of Shards Audible.com audiobook and two …
Shelf Awareness reviews my debut novel King of Shards and calls it “compelling fantasy” and a “fascinating first novel” and says,
…King of Shards is the first entry of the Worldmender Trilogy, and its use of Hebrew culture and legend
On Tuesday, November 10th at 7pm, I’ll be reading at the Word Bookstore in Brooklyn alongside Rajan Khanna. Rajan will be reading from his new book Rising Tide, and I’ll be reading from King of Shards. Hope you …
Publishers Weekly reviews King of Shards and has nice things to say. They write:
…“…a robustly imagined fantasy world…Kressel advances his plot briskly through a series of alliances, betrayals, separations, and reunions, and the veiled motives of several of
Over at SF Signal, Larry Ketchersid interviews me about the Lamed Vav, writing difficult characters, Kabbalah, and other fiction books that use Jewish mythology that I’ve enjoyed. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
…Larry Ketchersid: What was your
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