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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Chuck Tingle and his latest novel, Camp Damascus

    Entrevista con un autor: Chuck Tingle

    Chuck Tingle es una misteriosa fuerza de energía tras unas gafas de sol y una máscara rosa. También es un autor anónimo de novelas románticas, de terror y fantasía. Chuck nació en Home of Truth, Utah…

  • Author Cassandra Khaw and their latest novel, The Salt Grows Heavy

    Entrevista con una autora: Cassandra Khaw

    Cassandra Khaw es la autora superventas de USA Today, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, y una galardonada escritora de videojuegos, autora nominada a premios y exguionista de Ubisoft Montreal. Su trabajo…

  • Author Susanna Hoffs and her first novel, This Bird Has Flown

    Entrevista con una autora: Susanna Hoffs

    Con una de las voces más queridas del pop, Susanna Hoffs se graduó en Arte en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. En 1981, cofundó The Bangles, con quienes grabó y lanzó una serie de sencillos…

  • Author Christopher Huang and his latest novel, Unnatural Ends

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Huang

    Christopher Huang creció en Singapur, hijo único en un árbol genealógico que se expande drásticamente en la generación de sus padres. Se mudó a Canadá después del Servicio Militar Nacional, estudió…

  • Author Rose Wilding and her debut novel, Speak of the Devil

    Entrevista con una autora: Rose Wilding

    Rose Wilding es una escritora de novela negra del norte de Inglaterra. Estudió en la Universidad de Manchester, la Universidad de Sunderland y la Universidad de Towson. Cuando no está asesinando…

  • Author J.R. Dawson and her first novel, The First Bright Thing

    Entrevista con un autor: JR Dawson

    JR Dawson (ella/ellos) ha publicado obras cortas en revistas como F&SF, Lightspeed y The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Vive en Omaha con su esposo y tres perros en medio de un parque…

  • Author Meg Shaffer and her debut novel, The Wishing Game

    Entrevista con una autora: Meg Shaffer

    Meg Shaffer es profesora de escritura creativa a tiempo parcial y candidata a tiempo completo a un Máster en Bellas Artes en Televisión y Guion en Stephens College, Columbia, Misuri. Encuéntrala en…

  • C. E. McGill and their novel Our Hideous Progeny

    Entrevista con un autor: CE McGill

    CE McGill tiene 23 años, nació en Escocia y creció en Carolina del Norte. Sus relatos cortos han aparecido en Fantasy Magazine y Strange Constellations, y ha sido dos veces finalista del Premio Dell a…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Middlegame

    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
  • Cover image for Radicalized

    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
  • Cover image for The Sentence is Death

    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
  • Cover image for The Night Tiger

    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
  • Cover image for Holy Lands: A Novel

    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...
  • Cover image for An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    • By: Green, Hank,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We’ve all done it. We’ve all seen something extraordinary, glanced at it briefly, and then continued on toward our current destination, wherever that may be. We may be in a hurry, we may not. We may be alone, with someone else, or part of a group. But, regardless of our...
  • Cover image for Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    • By: Chambers, Becky.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Becky Chambers has become a name to watch in Science Fiction. She published her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in 2014 after completing it via a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was later picked up by Harper Voyager and released to a much wider readership and...
  • Cover image for Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    • By: Yolen, Jane,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jane Yolen has been working as an author for over 50 years. She has published over 300 titles, ranging from children’s books to speculative fiction (both fantasy and science fiction), and to nonfiction. She is also a poet, an instructor of writing and a reviewer of children’s literature.Jane Yolen’s books...