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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Collage of Shaun Barger and his first novel, Mage Against the Machine

    Entrevista con un autor: Shaun Barger

    Shaun Barger es un novelista residente en Los Ángeles que detesta el frío, las conspiraciones idiotas y el fascismo. Divide sus días entre escribir, resistirse al canto de sirena de los eternos climas…

  • Robert Masello and his current novel The Night Crossing

    Entrevista con un autor: Robert Masello

    Robert Masello es un periodista galardonado, guionista de televisión y autor de bestsellers. Su guía de composición, "Las reglas de escritura de Robert", se ha adoptado en numerosas aulas…

  • Author V.E. Schwab and her latest book, Vengeful

    Entrevista con un autor: VE Schwab

    Victoria "VE" Schwab ha sido llamada "la heredera de Diana Wynne Jones". Es autora de la serie "Shades of Magic", éxito de ventas del New York Times, así como de varias novelas para jóvenes y adultos…

  • Author Rebecca Serle and her book, The Dinner List

    Entrevista con una autora: Rebecca Serle

    Rebecca Serle escribe a tiempo completo, lo que significa que va en pijama al trabajo. Estudió en la Universidad del Sur de California y luego obtuvo su maestría en Bellas Artes en The New School de…

  • Author P. Djeli Clark and his book "The Black God's Drum"

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djèlí Clark

    Nacido en Nueva York y criado principalmente en Houston, P. Djèlí Clark pasó sus primeros años de vida en Trinidad y Tobago, la tierra natal de sus padres. Sus escritos han aparecido en Daily Science…

  • Author Christopher Huang and his book, A Gentleman's Murder

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Huang

    Christopher Huang creció en Singapur, donde cumplió dos años del Servicio Militar Nacional como señalero del Ejército. Después se mudó a Canadá, donde estudió Arquitectura en la Universidad McGill de…

  • Photo of Juliet McDaniel and her debut novel, Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

    Entrevista con una autora: Juliet McDaniel

    Juliet McDaniel tiene una maestría en Escritura de la Universidad DePaul. Aunque se crio en Arizona, pasó los últimos 25 años viviendo en Chicago, donde actualmente reside con su pareja y sus gatos…

  • Author Anne Youngson and her debut novel, Meet Me at the Museum

    Entrevista con una autora: Anne Youngson

    Anne Youngson tuvo una larga y exitosa carrera en la industria automotriz antes de jubilarse anticipadamente para dedicarse a la escritura. Actualmente cursa un doctorado en Oxford Brookes. Anne y su…

  • Author Ruthann Emrys with her book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Ruthanna Emrys

    Ruthanna Emrys vive en una misteriosa mansión a las afueras de Washington D. C. con su esposa y su numerosa y peculiar familia. Prepara vainilla casera, se obsesiona con el diseño de videojuegos, da…


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...
  • Cover image for Women of Good Fortune

    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...