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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Giano Cromley and his latest novel, American Mythology

    Entrevista con un autor: Giano Cromley

    Nacido y criado en Montana, Giano Cromley es autor de dos novelas juveniles y una colección de cuentos. Recibió una beca de artista del Consejo de las Artes de Illinois y fue becario BookEnds de la…

  • Photographer Robert Landau and his visual book, Art Deco: Los Angeles

    Entrevista con un autor: Robert Landau

    Robert Landau es fotógrafo y autor de varios libros visuales, incluyendo el internacionalmente aclamado Rock 'N' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip. Sus fotografías se han exhibido en todo el mundo…

  • Author Arvind Ethan David and his graphic novel, Trouble is My Business

    Entrevista con un autor: Arvind Ethan David

    Arvind Ethan David es un novelista gráfico nominado al Premio Stoker que también ha escrito exitosos audiodramas, series de televisión y obras de teatro. Arvind también es productor de cine y teatro…

  • 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…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for In Five Years: A Novel

    In Five Years: A Novel

    • By: Serle, Rebecca
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “Where do you see yourself in five years?” This is a question that almost everyone has been asked at some point in their life. It may give us pause. We may think we know. But the answer we give is always a guess because no one really knows what the...
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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
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    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
  • Cover image for Razorblade Tears

    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
  • Cover image for A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
  • Cover image for The Album of Dr. Moreau

    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...
  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
  • Cover image for The Dictionary of Lost Words

    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...