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Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Violet

    Interview With an Author: Scott Thomas

    Scott Thomas’ debut novel, Kill Creek, is a classic “haunted house” updated for the 21st Century. It is also a love letter to the horror genre, its authors and readers. Now Thomas is back with his…

  • Shaun Hamill and his first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters

    Interview With an Author: Shaun Hamill

    Shaun Hamill is a native of Arlington, Texas. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in the dark woods of Alabama with his wife, his in-laws, and his dog. A Cosmology of Monsters is…

  • Jennifer Giesbrecht and her first book, The Monster of Elendhaven

    Interview With an Author: Jennifer Giesbrecht

    Jennifer Giesbrecht is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia where she earned an undergraduate degree in history, spent her formative years as a professional street performer, and developed a deep and…

  • Rhys Thomas and his new novel, The Secret Life of Sam Holloway

    Interview With an Author: Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas is the author of The Suicide Club and On the Third Day. He lives in Cardiff, Wales, with his partner and three cats. His new novel is The Secret Life of Sam Holloway and he recently agreed…

  • Sarah David-Goff and her debut novel, Last Ones Left Alive

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Davis Goff

    Sarah Davis-Goff was born and lives in Dublin. Her writing has been published in the Irish Times, the Guardian and LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive is her debut novel and she recently agreed to talk about…

  • Dahlia Adler and her book His Hideous Heart

    Interview With an Author: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler is an associate editor of mathematics by day, a blogger for B&N Teens, LGBTQ Reads, and Frolic by night, and an author of young adult and new adult novels at every spare moment in between…

  • Alix E. Harrow and her first novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Interview With an Author: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow is a part-time historian with a full-time desk job, a lot of opinions, and excessive library fines. Her short fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Apex, and other…

  • Tim Mason and his first adult novel, The Darwin Affair

    Interview With an Author: Tim Mason

    Tim Mason is a playwright whose work has been produced in New York and throughout the world. Among the awards he has received are a Kennedy Center Award, the Hollywood Drama-Logue Award, a fellowship…

  • Del Howison and his first novel, The Survival of Margaret Thomas

    Interview With an Author: Del Howison

    Del Howison is an award-winning editor, journalist, fiction author, and actor. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award four times (and won it once), for the Black Quill Award twice, for the…

  • Author Casey McQuiston and her first novel, Red, White & Royal Blue

    Interview With an Author: Casey McQuiston

    Casey McQuiston grew up in the swamps of Southern Louisiana, where they cultivated an abiding love for honey butter biscuits and stories with big, beating hearts. They studied journalism and worked in…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for A Gentleman's Murder

    A Gentleman's Murder

    • By: Huang, Christopher.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Great Britain, the years immediately following WWI were a period of great change. New technologies were finding their way into people’s everyday lives. Women began to voice their dissatisfaction with being essentially second-class citizens and unable to vote. And the men who survived serving in WWI returned to their...
  • Cover image for The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Many classic horror novels, including Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Island of Dr. Moreau, have almost no female characters. If there is a woman included, often she is relegated to being a servant or, more often, a victim. She is rarely featured as...
  • Cover image for A Closed and Common Orbit

    A Closed and Common Orbit

    • By: Chambers, Becky,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Published last year, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a breath of fresh air in the genre of science fiction. Sci-fi has long been languishing in multiple dystopian visions exploring just how wrong our world, and many others, could possibly go. A Long Way...