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A Black AF Comic Book, Women in Sci-Fi, Octavia Butler’s Legacy, and more…
Kit de Waal: ‘Make room for working class writers’ (The Guardian) But writing as a career? That never entered my head. The only writers I knew were dead. And apart from Enid Blyton, they were dead men. And white. And posh. Even when I began to read widely in my 20s, it was still a case…
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Hemlock (The Manhunters Book Two) by Jesse Teller
The busiest pirate bay in Perilisc is newly infested with vampires. These monsters will soon overrun the world, but the Manhunters must try to stop them in secret. Agents of the king are hunting the vigilante crew. With one false step, they could all end up at a royal execution. Release Date: April 15, 2018 Follow…
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Sonya Jesus, author of Knights
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing in high school. Mostly poetry at first and short stories. I wrote my first length novel while I was writing my master’s thesis in microbiology. I never published it, but the Knights Series started while I was writing my Ph.D. thesis. It’s a way to…
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Home Sweet Home, an excerpt from Landrien Moriset
On a snowy evening in January, Landrien Moriset stood in the doorway and stared down at the dead woman lying against the wall. The woman peered out through wide, unblinking eyes. Her wrinkled hands lay palms up against the hardwood floor. Her head was wrapped in a red night scarf and resting against the wall.…
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Lazy Writing, Black Superheroes, and more…
The Raised Eyebrow Is the Lazy Writer’s Favorite Cliche (The Daily Beast) For instance, the last book I tried to read was The Black Witch by Laurie Forest. It got stellar reviews, and yet eyebrows get a workout in the very first chapter, including: “My eyebrows flew up at this.” “Rafe raises his eyebrows.” “Tristan cocks an…
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The Grate by D. M. Shiro
Two hundred years after a Nuclear War lays waste to the Earth, the United States creates a new Capital called the Grate; a militant style society, which keeps records of its citizens. Sarah MacDonald finds herself in a terror attack when she is taken to the Grate’s hospital. There she struggles to recall the moments leading…
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Social Sci-Fi, Literary Fiction, Little Known Book Editors, and more…
Literary fiction conveys the human character (The Guardian) As someone whose tiny, grimy literary novels have attracted the interest of the film industry, the truth is the opposite of what Tim Lott (Why should we subsidise writers who’ve lost the plot?, 2 January) suggests; it’s the screenwriter who needs the literary novelist. Plot is easy to…
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Asian American Writers, Literary Fiction Armageddon, and more…
7 New Asian American Writers You Should Be Paying Attention To (Study Break) Literature produced by Asian Americans has seen a dramatic increase in popularity and numbers. Where Asian-American representation in previous literary years was peopled by a handful of writers, such as Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and Jhumpa Lahiri, this year offered a…
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Meet Mia Mae Lynne, author of The Man Who Needs You
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing the Chronicles of Fate series in 2008. It is a multicultural romance series based in and around metro Atlanta, Georgia. Life events happened and the books were put away until 2015 when the first release was published. The series was renamed to Southern Men Don’t…
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YA Fiction, Eco-Lit, An Algorithm Writing its own Sci-fi…
Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature (The Atlantic) These books are about coming of age, and we’re still coming of age.“What all these YA novels share is a universal coming of age experience,” Jennifer Loja, president of Penguin Young Readers, wrote to me in an email. The bildungsroman—the original term for a coming-of-age story—dates…
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