I hate sieve writing, sieve books. What’s sieve writing? Well, in my head, where I’m not so polite, I call them dumb books. I don’t mean dumb premises like a woman with a toothpick saving the world from a hangry koala or a woman needing to have sex with a stranger to stay alive. Those […]
Scarlett Van Dijk is a young Australian writer of young adult fantasy stories. She currently has two novels released, Sky Stone and Guardian Core, of the Sky Stone series. My name is Scarlett Van Dijk and I was born in 1993. I am an Australian author of young adult fantasy stories. Besides authoring, I work […]
Book Name: The Eye of the World Author: Robert Jordan First Published: 1990 Author Robert Jordan (born James Oliver Rigney, Jr.) was born in the late 1940s in Charleston, South Carolina. As a child, he was fond of reading, especially the books of Mark Twain and Jules Verne. As an adult, he served two tours […]
Why not buy a book because of its cover? No, don’t judge a book by its cover? Total BS. Why not judge the book based on its cover? It is designed for judgement and sales. Book covers exist for a reason. They entice the reader and hint at the story. Most often, cover designers’ stereotypical […]
[Editor’s note: This continues Christina “DZA” Marie’s list of the top ten heroines in literary sci-fi and fantasy. Part One of this series posted yesterday.] Katniss Everdeen, from Hunger Games The second person on this list whose story isn’t named after a guy! (The whole “so many stories are centered around and named after men/boys […]
Author MM Justus is fascinated by the possibilities of what if–the memories of a place that some people call ghosts or the möbius effect of time travel. She is interested in the potential effects of the fantastic on normal folks, and in inserting it into well-researched historical events, populated mostly by people who really lived. […]
Book Name: Nemesis Author: Louise Cooper First Published: 1989 Louise Cooper began writing stories at a young age, more to entertain her friends than for any other reason. She was not fond of school and would tuck herself away to write stories in the classroom. At the age of fifteen, she persuaded her parents to […]
Mondays can be a bear, so why not start your week off with an interview with Issue 033 author Brittany Pladek as she tells us about her story “Notes from an Unpublished Interview with Mme. Delave, Fairy“? LSQ: The sense of time and place is eloquently presented in your piece — you’ve managed to capture […]
Melissa Dickerson is a young adult science fiction writer who is occasionally funny but mostly just tries really, really hard. I’m Melissa, and I love books. I adore them so much that I write them as well as read them. I love libraries and book fairs. My favorite books are ones that take place in […]
Book Name: His Majesty’s Dragon Author: Naomi Novik First Published: 2006 Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973 and raised on Long Island. Novik learned to read at an early age and her favorite books were by J.R.R. Tolkien and Jane Austen. She studied English Literature at Brown University and did graduate work […]
