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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.

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    Only a Monster

    • By: Len, Vanessa
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
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    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
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    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
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    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
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    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
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    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
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    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
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    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...