Only one day remains for Lauren Zurchin’s charity calendar project, which goes by the name Beyond Words: A Year of Daydreams. Essentially, the calendar features fourteen noteworthy, famous fantasy writers, including Brandon Mull, Christopher Paolini, Gregory Maguire, Brandon Sanderson, Tad Williams, Patrick Rothfuss, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black, Lauren Kate, Lauren Oliver, Maggie Stiefvater,…
Month: February 2013
Asteroid Survival Kit
Survival Kit for Asteroid DA14 Day(Well..for the asteroid that will not hit us, according to NASA) Celebrate with these movie and books: The Last Policeman While it could have read like a conventional police procedural, Ben Winter’s awesome crime book also had an added element of danger: the impending collision of an asteroid…
Growing Up Dead
Amazon(Kindle) (Only 99 cents!) Amazon.com (Paperback Edition) Interview with Greg Wilkey(Author of the Mortimer Drake Series) 1. Let’s start with the conventional (rather overtired) question, What spawned the idea for this book? The idea for this book came from a dream. I was teaching middle school Spanish and I was reading tons of Young Adult literature at the…
Death’s Cold Breath
This ghost had his stomping ground-the church on the hilltop, right outside of the confines of this small provincial town in England. The westerly winds chilled the air, causing the villagers’ to have ghostly breath of their own. Was each errant breath of these churchgoers a significant sign that they were bound to die eventually? …
Frankenstein’s Monster
Amazon(Kindle)/Barnes and Noble(Nook) Interview with Susan Heyboer O’Keefe (Author of the Novel) Note: This interview has been previously posted, but I’m posting this here again to reveal my new review format 1. What originally piqued your interest in writing a sequel to Frankenstein? First, let me thank you for your kind invitation to be here. You’ve…
News About "A Bibliophile’s Reverie"
Note for all readers: A Bibliophile’s Reverie is going through some grand, slightly unprecedented changes. I’m well aware that I’ve been hinting at this for the last few months, but these changes will slowly be appearing on this blog over the course of the new few months. Details about all these features will not be…
