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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, Of Monsters and Mainframes

    Interview With an Author: Barbara Truelove

    Barbara Truelove is an Australian author and game designer who writes about werewolves, monsters, space, and sometimes other things. Her interactive novel, Blood Moon, was released in 2023. When she’s…

  • Author Eric J. Guignard and his book, Scaring and Daring: Terrifying Takes on 15 Classic Tales: A Horror Writers Association Anthology

    Interview With an Author: Eric J. Guignard

    Eric J. Guignard is an author and anthologist of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press Dark Moon Books. He's twice won…

  • Author Lindy Ryanand her two novel, Bless Your Heart and Another Fine Mess

    Interview With an Author: Lindy Ryan

    Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. Several of…

  • Author Kathleen Kaufman and her latest novel, Fiend

    Interview With an Author: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu is the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of eight novels. Her books have been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards. She has written two spy novels (Red Widow and Red…

  • Author Giano Cromley and his latest novel, American Mythology

    Interview With an Author: Giano Cromley

    Born and raised in Montana, Giano Cromley is the author of two young adult novels and a collection of short stories. He is a recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and was a…

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

    Interview With an Author: Robert Landau

    Robert Landau is a photographer and author of several visual books, including the internationally acclaimed Rock 'N' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip. His photographs have been shown all over the…

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

    Interview With an Author: Arvind Ethan David

    Arvind Ethan David is a Stoker Award-nominated graphic novelist who has also written chart-topping Audiodramas, television, and plays. Arvind is also a producer of film and theater, including the Emmy…

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

    Interview With an Author: Gareth Brown

    Gareth Brown is the author of the international bestseller The Book of Doors. He wanted to be a writer from a very young age, and he completed his first novel as a teenager. For the last twenty years…

  • Direct Descendant book cover by Tanya Huff

    Interview With an Author: Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff may have left Nova Scotia at three, and has lived most of her life since in Ontario, but she still considers herself a Maritimer. On the way to the idyllic rural existence she shares with…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen is a professional killer. The emphasis on that statement should be placed on "professional." She is a reanimated killer, wiped of her memories and in service to the Matron of Assassins that made her second chance at "life" possible. She is efficient, discreet, and willing to dispatch (the term...
  • 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...
  • Cover image for The Fragile Threads of Power

    The Fragile Threads of Power

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It’s been seven years since the events at the end of V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light. In Red London, Lila and Kell have been sailing the seas as privateers on her ship, the Grey Barron (They also secretly perform tasks for Red London’s crown.). Rhy Maresh, Kell’s brother, has...