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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 The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...