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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author S.L. Coney and her debut novel Wild Spaces

    Entrevista con un autor: SL Coney

    SL Coney obtuvo una maestría en psicología clínica antes de abandonar la academia para dedicarse a la escritura. La autora tiene vínculos con Carolina del Sur y raíces en San Luis. Su obra ha…

  • Author Fulton Ross and his debut novel, The Unforgiven Dead

    Entrevista con un autor: Fulton Ross

    Fulton Ross es un escritor y periodista de las Tierras Altas de Escocia. Licenciado en Literatura e Historia Escocesas por la Universidad de Glasgow, ha trabajado en periódicos nacionales durante más…

  • Author Timothy Janovsky and his latest novel, New Adult

    Entrevista con un autor: Timothy Janovsky

    Timothy Janovsky es un narrador queer y multidisciplinario de Nueva Jersey. Es licenciado en teatro y danza por el Muhlenberg College. Su trabajo como escritor de humor ha aparecido en Points in Case…

  • Author Amiee Gibbs and her debut novel, The Carnivale of Curiosities

    Entrevista con una autora: Amiee Gibbs

    Amiee Gibbs creció en la zona rural de Maryland, donde aún vive en una carretera supuestamente embrujada, pero sueña con escaparse a Irlanda. Ha trabajado para Penguin Random House durante 13 años…

  • Author Mat Osman and his latest novel, The Ghost Theatre

    Entrevista con un autor: Mat Osman

    Mat Osman es músico, compositor, bajista y miembro fundador de la banda británica Suede, además de compositor para cine y televisión. Sus escritos sobre arte y viajes han aparecido en The Guardian…

  • Author Josh Winning and his latest novel, Burn the Negative

    Entrevista con un autor: Josh Winning

    Josh Winning es el autor de la aclamada obra The Shadow Glass. Es escritor de cine sénior en Radio Times, ha escrito para Total Film durante más de una década y es copresentador del podcast de cine…

  • Author Alex Hay and his debut novel, The Housekeepers

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Hay

    Alex Hay creció en el Reino Unido, en Cambridge y Cardiff, y ha escrito desde que tiene memoria. Estudió historia en la Universidad de York y escribió su tesis sobre el poder femenino en las cortes…

  • Author T. Kingfisher and her latest book, Thornhedge

    Entrevista con un autor: T. Kingfisher

    T. Kingfisher (ella) escribe fantasía, terror y, ocasionalmente, rarezas, como Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead y A House with Good Bones. Bajo seudónimo, también escribe libros infantiles…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest book, Things Get Ugly

    Entrevista con un autor: Joe R. Lansdale

    Joe R. Lansdale es el autor de más de cincuenta novelas, éxito de ventas internacional, incluyendo las populares y longevas novelas de Hap y Leonard. Muchos de sus clásicos de culto han sido adaptados…

  • Author Joss Rountree and his debut novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish

    Entrevista con un autor: Josh Rountree

    Josh Rountree ha publicado más de sesenta relatos en una amplia variedad de revistas y antologías, incluyendo Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, The Deadlands, Bourbon Penn, PseudoPod…


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...