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A Touch of Whimsy Warehouse 13: A Touch of Fever by Greg Cox Pocket Books, New York, 2011 “Miracles break the rules. That’s why we have to lock them away.” –Artie About ten minutes into this novel — the first officially authorized story based on the Syfy Channel’s seriesWarehouse 13 — I wondered if I had wandered into a young adult book. The tone, the attitude and the atmosphere were all about what I would expect of a teenager’s point of view. And then it dawned on me: author Greg Cox has perfectly caught the “voice” of Pete Lattimer, the boyish,…

Agent of Inquiry The Sleeping Partner By Madeleine E. Robins Plus One Press, San Francisco ISBN 978-0-9844362-5-5 $18.95 It’s harder to write a Regency novel than some might think, especially if your audience comprises modern female readers. If, on the one hand, a writer sticks religiously to the historic modes and mores of the time she’s writing about, she risks alienating the inheritors of two hundred years of feminist struggle. On the other hand, it is very difficult to insert “modern” sensibilities into a heroine from 1810 without making her an anachronism in her own story. Combine this with the…