I had been hearing about Lisa Jewell for some time and decided to try The Family Upstairs. The story jumps back and forth from the present, where a young lady, Libby, learns she has inherited a house associated with her real family, to the past, where a well-off family life goes from mainly normal to Read More …
I am excited to host a spot on Kathe Koja’s THE CIPHER blog tour, with a giveaway, guest post from the author, and my own mini-review of the book. First, my take on the book: I was blown away by her talent, her writing style and voice are stunning. Her mastery of the language, especially Read More …
Gerry Huntman shares his writing process with us. His latest book, Guardian of the Sky Realms, a middlegrade fantasy, is out now. My Writing Process Gerry Huntman Writing is the most delightful job to have, and by and large, easy for me. The inspiration for a story is the easiest of all, and often requires Read More …
This middle-grade debut by Janae Marks is highly recommended. The characters were engaging, especially Zoe who is a take charge, no-nonsense protagonist who loves to bake. When she gets a letter from her real father, whom she’s never met, and, uh oh, is in prison for a crime she learns is pretty bad, a correspondence Read More …
We are excited to be a part of THE INVISIBLE blog tour. The book is fun, yet deep, and always unpredictable. His City-States are a dystopian world much like our own, where politics and corruption take center stage way more than they should. Very engaging, a quotable line on almost every page. The Invisible is a Read More …
Station Eleven is one of my favorite post-apocalyptic novels. The story drew me in, not your run of the mill PA fare. The characters were well-developed, and enough tension in the plot to keep things interesting, but not so focused on the gloom and doom as much as a little snapshot of this group who Read More …
I had never heard of this artist/author or this comic series but saw the cover and was taken by it. The artwork is stunning. I would buy the book for that alone. Although I don’t read too many comics, graphic novels these days, I enjoyed this one. It was unique and imaginative and on point Read More …
VELOCITIES: STORIES by Kathe Koja RELEASE DATE: 4/21/20 GENRE: Collection / Dark Fantasy / Weird Fiction / Horror BOOK PAGE: https://www.meerkatpress.com/books/velocities/ BUY LINKS: Meerkat Press |Amazon | Indiebound | Barnes & Noble From the award-winning author of The Cipher and Buddha Boy, comes Velocities, Kathe Koja’s second electrifying collection of short fiction. Thirteen stories, two Read More …
Rogues is an anthology edited by George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois. The theme, you guessed it, is rogues. As Martin says in his introduction: “Everbody loves a rogue … though sometimes we live to regret it. Scoundrels, con men, and scalawags. Ne’er-do-wells, thieves, cheats, and rascals. Bad boys and bad girls. Swindlers, seducers, deceivers, Read More …
I am thrilled to have a guest post by Seb Doubinsky, author of Missing Signal, which I consider a literary dystopian novel that happens to have aliens (!!). If George Orwell, Franz Kafka & Philip K. Dick had a book baby…well…you get the picture. It is a quick, fast-paced page turner with brilliant writing on Read More …