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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Gareth Brown and the cover of his book The Society of Unknowable Objects

    Entrevista con un autor: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown es el autor del bestseller internacional "El Libro de las Puertas". Desde muy joven quiso ser escritor y completó su primera novela siendo adolescente. Durante los últimos veinte años, ha…

  • Direct Descendant book cover by Tanya Huff

    Entrevista con una autora: Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff se fue de Nueva Escocia a los tres años y ha vivido la mayor parte de su vida en Ontario, pero aún se considera marítima. En su camino hacia la idílica vida rural que comparte con su pareja…

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey

    Entrevista con una autora: Kathleen Kaufman

    Kathleen Kaufman es autora de realismo mágico y terror gótico feminista. Explora al "otro" desde su perspectiva, cómo el horror del pasado se manifiesta en el presente y la inevitable interrelación de…

  • Author Sarah James and her latest novel, Last Stop Union Station

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah James

    Sarah James se graduó del programa de Maestría en Bellas Artes en Escritura para Cine y Televisión de la USC y de la Licenciatura en Dramaturgia del Fordham Lincoln Center. Actualmente trabaja como…

  • Christopher Shaw Myers and his book, Robert Shaw: An Actor’s Life on the Set of Jaws and Beyond

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Shaw Myers

    Christopher Shaw Myers creció escuchando las historias de su peculiar tío, Robert Shaw, y otros familiares. Nacido y criado en Pensilvania, asistió al Trinity College, donde se licenció en Literatura…

  • Author Lincoln Michel and his latest novel, Metallic Realms

    Entrevista con un autor: Lincoln Michel

    Los libros anteriores de Lincoln Michel incluyen la colección de cuentos "Bestias Verticales" y la novela "El Explorador de Cuerpos", que fue nombrada uno de los 10 Mejores Libros de Ciencia Ficción…

  • Author Randee Dawn and her latest novel, The Only Song Worth Singing

    Entrevista con una autora: Randee Dawn

    Nacida en Virginia y criada en Maryland, Randee Dawn reside actualmente en Brooklyn, donde trabaja como periodista de entretenimiento. Pero tras muchos años de esfuerzo y mucha suerte, su novela…

  • Author Olivia Waite and her latest novella, Murder By Memory

    Entrevista con una autora: Olivia Waite

    Olivia Waite escribe ciencia ficción queer, fantasía, romance histórico y ensayos. Es columnista de novela romántica para el New York Times Book Review. Su última novela corta es Murder By Memory y…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for I'll stop the world : a novel

    I'll stop the world : a novel

    • By: Thoman, Lauren
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Time travel is a staple of fiction. For well over a century writers have imagined different ways to propel their protagonists backwards and forwards through time. Sometimes they are merely observers, allowing the author to speculate on past motivations or future developments. But just as often, the protagonist is sent...
  • Cover image for Camp Damascus

    Camp Damascus

    • By: Tingle, Chuck
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Rose Darling is a high school senior who has lived her entire life in the small town of Neverton, Montana. She’s also grown up attending Kingdom of the Pine church with her parents. Kingdom of the Pine is a smaller church, compared to some others, but it has an international...
  • Cover image for The Legend of Charlie Fish

    The Legend of Charlie Fish

    • By: Rountree, Josh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Floyd Betts is a bit of a loner. He lives a solitary existence in Galveston, Texas. He works construction on local building projects and rents a room at Abigail Elder’s boarding house. It’s a quiet life, and Floyd likes it. But all of that is about to change.When Floyd returns...
  • Cover image for The London Séance Society

    The London Séance Society

    • By: Penner, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Lenna Wickes, and her younger sister Evie, are very different people. Lenna is interested in the world and how it works. She has an interest in science, even though she knows that a young lady in Victorian London is not supposed to be interested in such things. Evie, on the...
  • Cover image for The celebrants : a novel

    The celebrants : a novel

    • By: Rowley, Steven, 1971-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two weeks before their college graduation, a group of friends, who have become family during their college experience, must attend the funeral of one of their own. Alec has died of an apparent drug overdose and it shakes them all, Craig, Jordan, Jordy, Marielle, and Naomi, to their cores. Alec’s...
  • Cover image for Final Cut

    Final Cut

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joey Jessup is very good at her job. And it is a job that she really enjoys. Joey is a key costumer and over her career she has worked on almost every type of film, with a number of A-list actors and directors, along with some of the most talented...
  • Cover image for The Wishing Game

    The Wishing Game

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    How many of us have books, or series of books, that provided an escape for us as children and, because of that, we continue to love them as adults? How many of us longed to receive an owl-delivered letter from Hogwarts; find a secret entrance at the back of the...
  • Cover image for Our Hideous Progeny

    Our Hideous Progeny

    • By: Mcgill, C. E.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley tells the tale of how Victor Frankenstein challenges the “natural order” and explores the secrets of life itself by creating a being made from the pieces of other men. But what if Victor had chosen another direction for his research? What if, instead of choosing to...
  • Cover image for Going Zero

    Going Zero

    • By: McCarten, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know that we are constantly being observed and monitored in today’s world. There are security and surveillance cameras on many homes, businesses, and on the traffic lights at intersections. ATMs and now self-check out machines in retail establishments also include cameras. Purchases, whether online or in a brick...
  • Cover image for The Lies of the Ajungo

    The Lies of the Ajungo

    • By: Utomi, Moses Ose
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “There is no water in the City of Lies.”Tutu has lived all of his short life in the City of Lies with his mother. Located in the Forever Desert, the City of Lies used to have water. . .but the inhabitants were vanquished by the fierce Ajungo Empire which required...