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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Chelsea Sedoti and her latest novel, It Came From The Sky

    Interview With an Author: Chelsea Sedoti

    Chelsea Sedoti fell in love with writing at a young age after discovering that making up stories was more fun than doing her schoolwork. (Her teachers didn’t always appreciate this.) She now focuses…

  • H.G. Parry and her new novel, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

    Interview With an Author: H.G. Parry

    H.G. Parry lives in a book-infested flat on the Kapiti Coast in New Zealand, which she shares with her sister, a cat, three guinea-pigs, and two overactive rabbits. She holds a Ph.D. in English…

  • Playwright and screenwriter, Byron Lane and his first novel, A Star is Bored.

    Interview With an Author: Byron Lane

    Byron Lane is a playwright and screenwriter. He's also worked as a journalist and as a personal assistant to celebrities, including Carrie Fisher. He's originally from New Orleans and lives in Los…

  • Author Carrie Vaughn and her latest book, Ghosts of Sherwood

    Interview With an Author: Carrie Vaughn

    Carrie Vaughn is best known for her New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. She's…

  • Author TJ Kline and his book, The Extraordinaries

    Interview With an Author: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company. His novels include, Into this River I Drown and The House in the Cerulean Sea. His latest novel…

  • Author Gretchen Berg and her first novel, The Operator

    Interview With an Author: Gretchen Berg

    Gretchen Berg was born on the East Coast, raised in the Midwest, and spent a number of years in the Pacific Northwest. She has taught English in South Korea and in Northern Iraq and has traveled to…

  • Author Grady Hendrix and his latest book, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

    Interview With an Author: Grady Hendrix

    Award-winning author Grady Hendrix has written about the confederate flag for Playboy magazine, covered terrible movie novelizations and ninja death swarms for outlets ranging from Slate to the…

  • Author Elizabeth Little and her latest book, Pretty as a Picture

    Interview With an Author: Elizabeth Little

    Elizabeth Little is the author of Dear Daughter, which won the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel, and two works of nonfiction, Biting the Wax Tadpole and Trip of the Tongue. She lives in Los…

  • Author and chemist, Dr. Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, Death By Shakespeare

    Interview With an Author: Kathryn Harkup

    Dr. Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. She completed a doctorate on her favorite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research before realizing that talking, writing, and…

  • Author Zen Cho and her latest novel, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

    Interview With an Author: Zen Cho

    Zen Cho is the author of the Sorcerer to the Crown, The True Queen, as well as the short story collection Spirits Abroad. She is a Hugo, Crawford and British Fantasy Award winner, and a finalist for…


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.
    Эвин — профессиональная убийца. Здесь следует сделать акцент на слове «профессиональная». Она — ожившая убийца, лишённая памяти и служащая Матроне Ассасинов, которая дала ей второй шанс на «жизнь». Она эффективна, осторожна и готова расправиться (термин...
  • 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...
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    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...