Official Ari Marmell Website Order “The Conqueror’s Shadow” HERE Read An Excerpt HERE AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ari Marmell, a graduate of the University of Houston with a Creative Writing degree, has several shared-world short stories and novels in publication including “Agents of Artifice” (Magic: the Gathering). “The Conqueror’s Shadow” is the author�...

The Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell will be released by Spectra on February 23rd of 2010, and after reading it I am a bit conflicted.  How can I be conflicted about a book that I stayed up way past my normal bedtime to read?  How can I be conflicted about a book that I took to work so that I could read during lunch?  Well, to tell you the truth, I really do not know,&nb...

Ari Marmell is best known the world of Dungeons & Dragons where he is a freelance writer and has published several tie-in novels. The Conqueror’s Shadow (Book Depository, Powell’s Books, Indiebound) is his first non-tie-in novel and was released to the world last month (I enjoyed it quite a bit). He lives in Austin, TX and has several more non-tie-in novels are in the works. Af...

A few weeks ago I was thinking about some on-line discussion or another and wondering just what sword and sorcery really means and if any of the books I tend to read really fit that definition. Now I’ve come to realize that like porn, I’ll know sword and sorcery when I see it. It was The Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell (Book Depository, Powell’s Books, Indiebound) that sh...

The Conqueror's Shadow Ari Marmell 448 pp. Spectra. $26.00 Pub. Date: 2/23/2010 ISBN-13: 978-0553807769 Reviewed by Paul StottsIn Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent remarks that “…you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Thanks for the foreshadowing, Harvey. But let’s change this statement up, going for the...

At the back end of last year I was having real trouble getting into any books at all. I’m glad to say that’s all over now (which is a relief for me!) but it was a really strange feeling for a while...Going by the blurb, Ari Marmell’s ‘The Conqueror’s Shadow’ seemed like a nice light read that would get me over the bump and back into other stuff; just the book for a fun (and light) Chri...

You never really know what's going to make it big do you? Publishers will say that their book is the next big thing but they wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't would they? Can you imagine a publisher saying, "Well... this book is ok but if I had to choose between this and another book I'd go for the other book personally"? Doesn't quite work...I thought that a good 'post Christmas' thing

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Hey, folks. Ari Marmell, author of the upcoming Pyr novel The Goblin Corps here--and I need your help. Assist me in coming up with a name--well, technically a title--for a character in the novel, and you could win both an acknowledgment in the book and a free, signed copy of either The Goblin Corps or The Conqueror's Shadow. Details here: Looking forward to hearing what you come up with.

Heyer, Georgette. 1931. The Conqueror. File this one under as being an almost-review. An almost-review of a book that seemed to have no end. Maybe the original audience--British folks in the 1930s--would have been so well-educated or schooled in the history of the era--William the Conqueror--that The Conqueror would not have seemed so daunting. Perhaps their textbooks gave it more than a sentence ...