Saturday, July 24, 2021

Five recent captivating SFF mystery novels

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At Tor.com James Davis Nicoll tagged five favorite recent sci-fi & fantasy novels , including: A Study in Honor by Claire O’Dell (2018...

Pg. 99: Mary T. Boatwright's "Imperial Women of Rome"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context by Mary T. Boatwright . About the book , from the publisher: ...

Q&A with Hermione Hoby

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From my Q&A with Hermione Hoby , author of  Virtue : A Novel : Photograph by Nina Subin How much work does your title do to take readers...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Ten crime novels full of style, plot & dark humor

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Samantha Downing is the author of the bestselling My Lovely Wife , nominated for Edgar, ITW, Macavity, and CWA awards. Amazon Studios and N...

Pg. 99: Will Mari's "The American Newsroom"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 by Will Mari . About the book , from the publisher: The story of...

Pg. 69: Neil Sharpson's "When the Sparrow Falls"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: When the Sparrow Falls by Neil Sharpson . About the book , from the publisher: Life in the Caspian Republic ...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

What is Joe Clifford reading?

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Featured at Writers Read: Joe Clifford , author of  The Shadow People . His entry begins: I’m (almost) always reading more than one book. As...

Q&A with Linsey Miller

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From my Q&A with Linsey Miller , author of What We Devour : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? I always w...

Pg. 99: Allyson Brantley's "Brewing a Boycott"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism by Allyson P...

Top ten books about Sicily

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Jamie Mackay is a writer and translator based in Florence. His work has appeared in the Guardian , the TLS , Frieze and elsewhere. The In...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Pg. 69: TJ Klune's "Flash Fire"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Flash Fire: The Extraordinaries , Book Two by TJ Klune . About the book , from the publisher: Flash Fire is t...

Pg. 99: Michael K. Miller's "Shock to the System"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Shock to the System: Coups, Elections, and War on the Road to Democratization by Michael K. Miller . About t...

Six thrillers in which the natural world is a character

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Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the critically acclaimed author of four books: the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated short story collection How to...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Q&A with Amy Makechnie

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From my Q&A with Amy Makechnie , author of: Ten Thousand Tries : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Ten T...

Pg. 99: Kristy L. Slominski's "Teaching Moral Sex"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski . Ab...

Eight books about childhood friendships throughout the years

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Zak Salih earned his BA in English and Journalism from James Madison University, and his MA in English from the University of Virginia. His...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Joe Clifford's "The Shadow People," the movie

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Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Shadow People by Joe Clifford . The entry begins: If they make my book into a movie … they can put anyo...

Pg. 69: Hermione Hoby's "Virtue"

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Featured at the Page 69 Test: Virtue : A Novel by Hermione Hoby . About the book , from the publisher: A powerful novel of youth, desire, an...

Pg. 99: Kate Fortmueller's "Hollywood Shutdown"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Hollywood Shutdown: Production, Distribution, and Exhibition in the Time of COVID by Kate Fortmueller . Abou...

Five top food memoirs

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Katie Yee is a Brooklyn-based writer and the Book Marks associate editor at Lit Hub. At Lit Hub she tagged five food memoirs to dig into f...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Nose in a book: Elie Honig

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Who: Elie Honig What: Hatchet Man by Elie Honig When: July 2021 Where: Cherry Hill Library, Cherry Hill NJ Photo credit: Hope Horwitz,...

Seven of the most absurd(ly entertaining) serial killers in fiction

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Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör , My Best Friend’s Exo...

Pg. 99: Erin Woodruff Stone's "Captives of Conquest"

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Featured at the Page 99 Test: Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean by Erin Woodruff Stone. About the book ...

Q&A with Jennifer Nissley

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From my Q&A with Jennifer Nissley , author of  The Mythic Koda Rose : How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? ...