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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Cassandra Lane and her debut novel, We Are Bridges

    Entrevista con una autora: Cassandra Lane

    Cassandra Lane es la ganadora del Premio Louise Meriwether al Primer Libro y editora jefe de la revista LA Parent. Anteriormente trabajó como reportera de planta y obtuvo una maestría en escritura…

  • Author Samantha Silva and her latest novel, Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft

    Entrevista con una autora: Samantha Silva

    Samantha Silva es la autora de la novela "El Sr. Dickens y su Carol" y guionista, y ha vendido proyectos a Paramount, Universal y New Line Cinema. Vive en Boise, Idaho. Su nueva novela, "Amor y Furia…

  • Author JJA Harwood and her debut novel, The Shadow in the Glass

    Entrevista con un autor: JJA Harwood

    JJA Harwood es autora, editora y bloguera. Creció en Norfolk, estudió Historia en la Universidad de Warwick y finalmente se mudó a Londres, lo cual sigue siendo un poco impactante para alguien…

  • Author Ryan La Sala and his latest novel, Be Dazzled

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan La Sala

    Ryan La Sala creció en Connecticut, pero solo físicamente. Mentalmente, pasó la mayor parte de su infancia en los mundos de Sailor Moon y Xena: La Princesa Guerrera, lo que quizás explique todos sus…

  • Author Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, Vampirology

    Entrevista con una autora: Dra. Kathryn Harkup

    Kathryn Harkup es química y escritora. Kathryn completó un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que hablar…

  • Author P. Djeli Clark and his novel, A Master of Djinn

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djeli Clark

    Nacido en Nueva York y criado principalmente en Houston, P. Djeli Clark pasó sus primeros años de vida en Trinidad y Tobago, la patria de sus padres. Finalista de los Premios Hugo y Sturgeon, es autor…

  • Author Emiko Jean and her latest novel, Tokyo Ever After

    Entrevista con una autora: Emiko Jean

    Emiko Jean es la autora de Empress of All Seasons y We'll Never Be Apart. Vive en Washington con su esposo y dos gemelos rebeldes. Su última novela es Tokyo Ever After y recientemente habló sobre ella…

  • Author Susan Penner and her first novel, The Lost Apothecary

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Penner

    Sarah Penner trabaja a tiempo completo en finanzas y es miembro de la Sociedad de Novela Histórica y de la Asociación de Escritoras de Ficción. Vive con su esposo en St. Petersburg, Florida, con su…

  • Author Pip Williams and her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words

    Entrevista con un autor: Pip Williams

    Pip Williams nació en Londres, creció en Sídney y ahora reside en las colinas de Adelaida, Australia. Es autora de "Un verano italiano", una autobiografía sobre los viajes de su familia en busca de la…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cuando los lectores dejaron a Joey Jessup al final de Final Cut de Marjorie McCown, ella había descubierto la identidad del asesino que había matado a la subdirectora Courtney Lisle en el set de una película de superhéroes de gran presupuesto. Había sobrevivido a un intento de asesinato cuando el asesino había...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
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    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...