Hansel & Gretel by Neil Gaiman & Lorenzo Mattotti: A Review
Best-selling author Neil Gaiman and fine artist Lorenzo Mattotti join forces to create Hansel & Gretel, a stunning book that’s at once as familiar as a dream and as evocative […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Scary Stories For Children: A Genre Studies Course Rationale
The upcoming 2015 Children’s Literature Association Conference is one that has caught my attention – “The High Stakes and Dark Sides of Children’s Literature,” an open-ended call for panels on […]
The Bodies We Wear: Signed Book Giveaway and Guest Post by Jeyn Roberts
(Giveaway details at the end of the post) Jeyn Roberts (pronounced Jen – the Y is silent)grew up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and started writing at an early age, having her […]
The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima
The premise of The Warrior Heir is that feuding groups of magical people, Weirlind, live among us, constantly vying for power. Wizards are the most powerful of these people, both magically […]
Speculating Worlds: How to Successfully Build Fictional Realities
Note: The title of this post is a bit misleading as it implies a degree of expertise in the subject that I, unfortunately, do not have. What the following post […]
Top Ten Tuesday: Spooky Things to Read and Watch
Top Ten Books/Movies To Read Or Watch To Get In The Halloween Spirit OR Top Ten Characters Who I Would Totally Want To Be For Halloween Nafiza To watch or […]
Life Lessons from Tamora Pierce’s Books
I don’t know about you guys, but my pre-teen years were full of awkward encounters, sweaty palms, and not knowing who the hell I wanted to be. Was I always […]
Speculative Fiction: Androids and the Prometheus Myth
One of the most interesting and fun Speculative Fiction tropes is the playfulness, which can be terrifying at times, with which the genre tackles the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus, a […]
Tweets from the Texas Book Festival – We Need Diverse Books
Hey y’all (sorry, couldn’t resist the excuse to use y’all), At the Texas Book Festival yesterday or today, Don Tate moderated a #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel with Andrea Davis Pinkney, Tim Tingle, […]
How to Write a Killer Book Proposal: Merilyn Simonds @WritersFestYGK
Hello hello! At the end of September I volunteered at and attended the Kingston Writer’s Festival, which was fabulous and I highly recommend volunteering and attending writer’s fests if you […]
The Book Wars 