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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Lamar Giles and his latest book, The Gateaway

    Interview With an Author: Lamar Giles

    Lamar Giles writes for teens and adults across multiple genres, with work appearing on numerous Best Of lists each and every year. He is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books and resides in…

  • Author Lee Geum-yi and her first novel, The Picture Bride, to be translated into English

    Interview With an Author: Lee Geum-yi

    Lee Geum-yi was born in 1962, in her grandmother's house in the small, mountainous village of Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea. She became enthralled with the charms of storytelling early on, having spent her…

  • Author Alan Moore and his latest book, Illuminations: Stories

    Interview With an Author: Alan Moore

    Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works included From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is…

  • Author Margarita Montimore and her latest book, Acts of Violet

    Interview With an Author: Margarita Montimore

    Margarita Montimore is the author of Asleep From Day, and Oona Out of Order, a USA Today bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club pick. After receiving a BFA in Creative Writing from Emerson…

  • Author James T. Bartlett and his book, the Alaskan Blonde

    Interview With an Author: James T. Bartlett

    Originally from London, James T. Bartlett has written for the Los Angeles Times, BBC, ALTA California, Hemispheres, Westways, Atlas Obscura,Crime Reads, Real Crimes and others, and is author of the…

  • Author Sunyi Dean and her debut novel, The Book Eaters

    Interview With an Author: Sunyi Dean

    Sunyi Dean is an autistic SFF writer, and mother of two. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling…

  • Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson and latest book, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

    Interview With an Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist and the author of the #1 bestselling Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, among other books. He is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum…

  • Author Conner Habib and his debut novel, Hawk Mountain

    Interview With an Author: Conner Habib

    Conner Habib hosts the podcast Against Everyone With Conner Habib, which covers topics like punk rock, philosophy, pornography, and occultism. His writing has appeared in CR Fashion Book, Best Gay…

  • Novels Boyfriend Material and Husband Material by Alexis Hall

    Interview With an Author: Alexis Hall

    Alexis Hall writes books in the southeast of England, where he lives entirely on a diet of tea and Jaffa Cakes. His latest book, Husband Material, is a sequel to 2020’s Boyfriend Material, and he…

  • Author Gigi Pandian and her latest book, Under Lock & Skeleton Key

    Interview With an Author: Gigi Pandian

    Gigi Pandian is the USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author of the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, the Accidental Alchemist mysteries, and several locked room mystery short stories…


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...