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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Colin Cotterill and his latest novel, The Motion Picture Teller

    Entrevista con un autor: Colin Cotterill

    Colin Cotterill es autor de quince libros de la serie Dr. Siri Paiboun. Su obra de ficción ha ganado un Premio Dilys y un CWA Dagger in the Library. Vive en Chumphon, Tailandia, con su esposa y varios…

  • Marjorie McCown and her book

    Entrevista con una autora: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown ha dedicado toda su vida profesional al mundo de la narración, aunque comenzó en el ámbito visual. Pasó más de veinticinco años en Hollywood trabajando como miembro clave de los…

  • Author Thomas Mullen and his latest novel, Blind Spots

    Entrevista con un autor: Thomas Mullen

    Thomas Mullen es el autor de renombre internacional de seis novelas anteriores: El último pueblo de la Tierra, Las numerosas muertes de los hermanos Luciérnaga, Los revisionistas, Darktown, Hombres…

  • Author Anthony McCarten and his latest novel, Going Zero

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony McCarten

    Anthony McCarten es un guionista, dramaturgo, novelista y periodista nacido en Nueva Zelanda. Entre sus trabajos cinematográficos se incluyen La teoría del todo, La hora más oscura, Los dos papas…

  • Author Peter S. Beagle and his two collections of short fiction, The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter S. Beagle

    Peter Soyer Beagle es el autor más vendido a nivel internacional y muy apreciado de numerosas novelas y colecciones de fantasía clásica, entre ellas El último unicornio, Tamsin, La línea entre dos…

  • Author Moses Ose Utomi and his latest novel, The Lies of the Ajungo

    Entrevista con un autor: Moses Ose Utomi

    Moses Ose Utomi es un escritor de fantasía nigeriano-estadounidense y nómada que reside actualmente en Honolulu, Hawái. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en ficción por el Sarah Lawrence College y ha…

  • Author Liz Hyder and her her novel, The Gifts

    Entrevista con una autora: Liz Hyder

    Liz Hyder es escritora, directora de talleres creativos y consultora independiente de relaciones públicas para el sector artístico. Ganó el Premio The Bridge y el Premio Moniack Mhor para Escritores…

  • Author Johnny Compton and his debut novel, The Spite House

    Entrevista con un autor: Johnny Compton

    Los relatos de Johnny Compton (él/él) han aparecido en Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast y muchos otros medios. Es miembro de HWA y creador y presentador del podcast Healthy Fears. The…

  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

    Entrevista con un autor: KJ Charles

    KJ Charles trabajó veinte años como editora en una editorial británica antes de abandonar el mundo de la literatura para dedicarse por completo a la novela romántica histórica. Desde entonces, ha…

  • Author Emilia Hart and her debut novel, Weyward

    Entrevista con una autora: Emilia Hart

    Emilia Hart creció en Australia y estudió Literatura Inglesa en la universidad antes de formarse como abogada. Vive en Londres. Weyward, su ópera prima, recibió una gran distinción en el Premio…


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...