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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Johnny Compton and his latest book, Dead First

    Interview With an Author: Johnny Compton

    Johnny Compton is a Stoker Award-nominated author whose short stories have appeared in Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast, and several other publications. His fascination with…

  • Author Sarah Domet and her latest novel, Everything Lost Returns

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Domet

    Sarah Domet is the author of the novel The Guineveres and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. She is a professor and the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North…

  • Author Anna Kovatcheva and her debut novel, She Made Herself a Monster

    Interview With an Author: Anna Kovatcheva

    Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the…

  • Author Terence Kell and his latest book, The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence

    Interview With an Author: Terence Keel

    Terence Keel is a professor of human biology, society, and African American studies at UCLA. His latest book is The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence and he…

  • Author Christopher Huang and his latest book, A Pretender’s Murder

    Interview With an Author: Christopher Huang

    Christopher Huang grew up in Singapore, an only child in a family tree that expands dramatically sideways at his parents' generation. He moved to Canada after his National Service, studied…

  • Author Ryan Douglass and his latest novel, The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay

    Interview With an Author: Ryan Douglass

    Ryan Douglass is a queer author and poet from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston, and his short fiction appears in All These Sunken Souls…

  • Author Tom Lutz and his latest book, Chagos Archipelago

    Interview With an Author: Tom Lutz

    Tom Lutz is the author of many books on literature and culture, as well as several books of travel writing and two novels. He taught, formerly, at UC Riverside, the University of Iowa, CalArts, the…

  • Author Rosie Grant and her book, To Die For

    Interview With an Author: Rosie Grant

    Rosie Grant is the creator behind @GhostlyArchive on TikTok and Instagram, where she researches and re-creates recipes found on gravestones. She works at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA and…

  • Author Kamilah Cole and his latest novel, An Arcane Inheritance

    Interview With an Author: Kamilah Cole

    Kamilah Cole is the bestselling author of So Let Them Burn and This Ends in Embers. A graduate of New York University, Kamilah is usually playing Kingdom Hearts for the hundredth time, quoting early…

  • Author Brad Meltzer and his latest novel, The Viper

    Interview With an Author: Brad Meltzer

    Brad Meltzer is the Emmy-nominated, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lightning Rod and twelve other bestselling thrillers. He also writes nonfiction books like The JFK Conspiracy, and the…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    เมื่อผู้อ่านพบกับโจอี เจสซัปในตอนจบของนวนิยายเรื่อง Final Cut ของมาร์จอรี แมคคาวน์ เธอได้ค้นพบตัวตนของฆาตกรที่ฆ่าคอร์ทนีย์ ลิสล์ ผู้ช่วยผู้กำกับในกองถ่ายภาพยนตร์ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่ฟอร์มยักษ์ เธอรอดชีวิตจากการพยายามลอบสังหารตัวเองเมื่อฆาตกรได้ลงมือ...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    อีวีนเป็นนักฆ่ามืออาชีพ แต่ควรเน้นคำว่า "มืออาชีพ" มากกว่า เธอเป็นนักฆ่าที่ฟื้นคืนชีพขึ้นมา ถูกลบความทรงจำ และรับใช้หัวหน้านักฆ่าที่มอบโอกาสครั้งที่สองในการ "มีชีวิต" ให้เธอ เธอมีประสิทธิภาพ รอบคอบ และพร้อมที่จะกำจัด (คำว่า...
  • 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...