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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 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...
  • Cover image for The Book Woman's Daughter

    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...
  • Cover image for One last stop

    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...
  • Cover image for The Quarter Storm

    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...
  • Cover image for One-Shot Harry

    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...
  • Cover image for Mickey7

    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”...
  • Cover image for Secret Identity

    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...