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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 Only a Monster

    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...
  • Cover image for The Fervor: A Novel

    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...