From last week’s interview with Kelly Barnhill, her short story, “The Insect and the Astronomer,” is now available for free! This week, we switch to romance. I found Tamara Mataya on Twitter when I saw her posts on Janet Reid’s blog. Not only is she a super cool writer librarian, her new book, THE BEST […]
When I read this blog post by author Kelly Barhill, I knew I wanted to interview her immediately. In addition to her novels, she also has a new short story called, “The Insect and the Astronomer” in Lightspeed Magazine. Be sure to check it out! Enter a world where magic bubbles just below the surface. […]
One of the perks of my day job is working with faculty who teach really interesting subject content. This semester I had the privilege of doing a library session for a class studying Tolkien and LORD OF THE RINGS. Even better, I’ve been invited to a panel discussion on Halloween to talk about Tolkien’s impact on literarture and culture. And, […]
The book trailer for Jonathan Stroud’s THE SCREAMING STAIRCASE (the first in the Lockwood and Co. series) is probably one of the best I’ve seen–because it’s interactive. And, it’s perfect for Halloween. Go ahead and give it a try: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUfYuhW6Kqg] And here’s more information about the book itself: When the dead come back to […]
This morning, I ran into a coworker who goes to the same place I do for physical therapy and massage. Apparently, my physical therapist told her that I was one of the bright spots in her day. I was completely flabbergasted! It was excellent to hear, especially because her impact on my life (my stress, and my physical pains resulting from […]
There’s nothing like the common cold to help with perspective. When I perused my new novel pages written pre- and post-illness, I found something surprising. Post-illness–they were (at least from a line-edit standpoint) relatively flawless. But pre-illness, when my brain was tired and stretched to its maximum capacity–it was like Forrest Gump wrote my pages. This got me thinking. As […]
I’ll have to admit, I was excited when I saw the trailer for Elysium. Very cool premise. A select group of rich people live on a utopian, heaven-like space station called Elysium, while the rest are stuck on Earth, with high pollution, sickness, overpopulation, and poverty. But when I saw the movie, I realized that’s […]
This week, in lieu of a post, I’m doing a bit of housekeeping to make the blog a bit more user-friendly. More than one person has told me they’re unable to leave comments, and I’m also looking to install some better, more sustainable share buttons (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.). Comments on this post (assuming they show up) may […]
Right now, among the fiction I’m reading (ENDER’S GAME, which I love, plus a Baby-sitters Club prequel called THE SUMMER BEFORE), I’m also reading a great nonfiction book by Teri Hatcher (of Desperate Housewives fame) called BURNT TOAST. The title comes from how her mother always ate burnt toast instead of throwing it away, and […]
Lindsay Cummings’ book THE MURDER COMPLEX doesn’t come out until next year, but the premise was so intriguing that I couldn’t wait to feature it. See below: Your mind is not your own… Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to survive in any situation, […]