Warning: Spoilers will follow. Can I contract swimmer’s ear from headsets? For the last month, I’ve worn headsets everywhere—in the yard, when I have a spare moment at work, in the tub, in the car (well, the headset covers only one ear then). I’m so addicted to my current set of audio books that my […]
A huge fan of fantasy and medieval history, Author Elizabeth Gaines Johnston loves weaving complicated storylines together to create characters who feel like real people. She enjoys using words to paint a picture, so her worlds have a tangible feel to them. My name is Elizabeth Gaines Johnston, author of the Gilded Serpents trilogy, as […]
Good grief. It’s 4 a.m. Despite my frequent yawns and drooping eyelids, I’m still awake, still reading. See, there’s this book, an interesting story with a cool description, so I started reading just before bedtime. I told myself I would read one chapter before bed. Then the characters’ emotions engulfed me. The details had me […]
I thought I would write about something for Pride this month, but what to focus on? Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness has been dissected many times. Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner is ground-breaking and a great fantasy representative. There are more options available to me than I can count, but I finally found […]
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. […]
