Valencia permitted me to romanticize my world. The post Twenty-Five Years Later, Michelle Tea’s ‘Valencia’ Remains Stunning Portrait of Lesbian Life appeared first on Autostraddle.| Autostraddle
Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. This week, Meeghan gave us a Freebie, so I’m going with: Favorite things I do when I’m … Continue reading TCL’s #T5T – Top Five Tuesday #20 – August 26, 2025 – Freebie on Free Time!→| The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog
Xenobe Purvis is a British-based writer who was born in Tokyo. She’s studied at the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway. Purvis was part of the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme. Her debut novel The Hounding, is billed as The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides as it follows five sisters in a small village in […]| debutiful
Literary rating: ★★★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆☆ A. W. Hart, the nominal “author” of the Avenging Angels series of western adventures featuring a twin brother-sister pair of bounty hunters in the post-Civil War West, is actually a house pen name; the books are all really written by different authors. (The writer… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
(Recorded without naming and shaming their unfortunate authors who don’t need to know, but you do.) Knife behind back, by Yoshitomo Nara. The one whose opening chapter contains a messy birth, a fla…| Kate Macdonald
How to find the right writing schedule.| Jim Nelson
Debra Oswald, One Hundred Years of Betty (Allen & Unwin 2025) Long before the meeting: If not for the Book Club, I would have put this book aside at page 14. Betty is the seventh child in a desperately poor … Continue reading →| Me fail? I fly!
She Didn't Stand a Chance by Stacie Grey centres around the supicious death of a wealthy man and those who stand to inherit his fortune.| Debbish
During the writing of The Wolf Pack, I decided to eliminate a chapter where Carthinal took the practical test to end his apprenticeship and enter the world of full mages. This is part of that chapter. I’ll post more of it eventually. Probably next week. Please don’t judge it too harshly. It was my first … Continue reading Carthinal’s Practical Exam→| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Last week I sent the manuscript of Book 4 of The Wolves of Vimar series. It’s called Immortal’s Death. I thought you might like to know a bit more about the world of Vimar, so here’s a post about it. Map created using Inkarnate Vimar circles its sun in almost exactly 360 days. This leads … Continue reading Exploring the World of Vimar in The Wolves of Vimar Series→| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Hi, Everybody. I’m back from my July break, now and am once more starting my weekly blog. Here’s a poem for today from my poetry book July to December, One Poem a Day. It’s today&…| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Former Assistant Editor Lily Davenport interviews author Lydi Conklin about writing for queer readers, drawing comics, and more.| The Cincinnati Review
The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”| Public Books
Two novels published in 2024 return to some of the best-known, canonical figures and episodes from Mexico’s past. The post Once upon a Time in Tenoxtitlan appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Book Review for “Dear Miss Lake” (The Emmy Lake Chronicles #4) by A.J. Pearce. Summary: “London, July 1944. After nearly five years of war, the readers of Woman’s Friendmagazine are relying o…| The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog
Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on…| The Chocolate Lady's Book Review Blog
Mo Fanning picks six books that are perfect for a relaxing summer read this year, as we enjoy our third UK heatwave.| Mo Fanning Author
We are delighted to announce the publication of Star Pyramid by Ian Stewart. The first book in the Chronicles of the Concordat, it is a thought-provoking science fiction tour-de-force, in an innova…| Elsewhen Press
The audiobook of A Man Named Baskerville is now available at Apple Books, as well as Audible and Amazon.| Jim Nelson
I can’t keep track of how many times the talented Elizabeth Wickham has pointed me to a terrific writing resource. She did so recently when she mentioned, “Writing Down the Bones”…| Victoria Ponders
"If Only" valuably illustrates how devastatingly rapidly life goes by for someone living so deep in the world of poetry.| Cleveland Review of Books
Han Kang, We Do Not Part (2021, translated e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris, Hamish Hamilton 2025) Before the Book Club meeting: Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, so her m…| Me fail? I fly!
My new novel ‘Retrovival’ is published today, Monday 16th June 2025, in eBook and Paperback by Elsewhen Press. In some ways I’ve been trying to avoid writing this…| Douglas Thompson's Blog
Annie ZaidiAleph Book Company, 2025 (From my review for The New Indian Express, here).How many of us ever get a chance to follow our dreams? Even more rare, to double back on life, to go back to sq…| Home
Overview. This is book 9 in the Camilla Randall series, although it can be read as a standalone. The story keeps you guessing until the final reveal. It would make a great beach read. Blurb When Camilla Randall allows a neighboring business to hold a “Moth Hour” storytelling event in the courtyard of her beachy … Continue reading Who Killed the Storyteller? A Mystery Unfolds. Book Review.→| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Discover the top 8 French graphic novels. They are must-read books that showcase exceptional storytelling and artwork and are essential for comic book lovers. The post The 8 French Graphic Novels Everyone Must Read first appeared on Blog.| Blog
Explore the 25 best Western novels of all time with our ultimate guide. Discover tales of courage, adventure, and the spirit of the Old West.| Blog - Book Writing Bureau
Yrsa Daley-Ward is the esteemed poet of The How, bone, and The Terrible and now her debut novel The Catch is one of the best books of the year so far. In it, estranged twin sisters are forced back …| debutiful
Grinders by C. S. Boyack First, what’s a grinder? In this futuristic book, it’s a person who modifies someone with technology to “upgrade” them. It’s an illegal practice, so police departments have grinder squads to track down these criminals. However, we learn from veteran officer Lou Brophy that the grinder squad pretty much has its… Continue reading Book review: ‘Grinders’→| Dave Williams
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.| Listen & Be Heard Network
Sarah Yahm discusses her new novel Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation, and the difficulty in witnessing the decline of her own mother.| Lilith Magazine
Now also available in paperback.| Elsewhen Press
Ocean Vuong (‘The Emperor of Gladness’) on his singular approach to the new novel, the real family that inspired it, and life beyond the page.| Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Is it only considered piracy if the people who do it lack resources and respectability? Apparently so.| Jim Nelson
By Kate Quinn Halfway through this, I knew it was destined to be one of my favorite books. Even though I’ve read countless books about code breaking and cracking the Enigma, I learned much more through this book about the varied efforts of Bletchley Park. I can’t recall a story where deciphering codes carried so... Continue Reading →| Kimberly Van Ginkel
At a recent panel discussion, Nickel Boys filmmakers RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes delved into their ambitious adaptation of The Nickel Boys. Turning Colson Whitehead’s... The post How RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes Pushed Storytelling Boundaries with 'Nickel Boys' appeared first on ScreenCraft.| ScreenCraft
I was recently asked if I would post on Roberta Eaton’s poetry blog, Writing to Be Read. I was greatly honoured, as I admire Robbie’s poetry. She has interviewed me, and reviewed my poe…| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Oleh: Dormaulina Sitanggang Judul Teruslah Bodoh Jangan Pintar Penulis Tere Liye Penerbit Sabak Grip Nusantara Tahun Terbit 2024 Tebal Buku 371 halaman “Tapi sayangnya, setelah penjajah itu berhasil diusir pergi, justru yang datang adalah saudara sendiri, yang lebih bengis, lebih rakus, untuk kemakmuran kelompoknya sambil membual untuk kepentingan bangsa dan negara.” Rasanya terlalu nyata...| BOPM Wacana
I have come to accept that I may have a slight obsession with translated Japanese fiction. While this journey has roots in the works of Haruki Murakami, it has since blossomed to incorporate so man…| I Would Rather Be Reading
The first book I finished this month was Patrick Süskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, a rather bizarre and haunting novel. I’m still trying to process it, and I think that’s a good testament to a work that’s nearly half a century old. Originally published in Germany in 1985, this Gothic tale weaves olfactory … Continue reading ‘Perfume’ by Patrick Süskind (Review)| I Would Rather Be Reading
OVERVIEW. I bought this 4 book bundle a while ago, and decided I should really get around to reading it. This review is about Book 1, Six Moon Summer. Although werewolf and vampire stories arenR…| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Out today in eBook edition, the third book in Terry Jackman’s Worlds Apart collective. Heroes and saviours are not always where you expect OldEarth is long abandoned now, NewEarth a fresh beginning. Its vassal worlds have spread across the void, not always under all the supervision that NewEarth intended. Though NewEarth itself might lead one … Continue reading "Out now – Homeworld: Worlds Apart 3"| Elsewhen Press
The final two books in the Bridge Daughter Cycle, Hagar's Mother and Stranger Son, are now on Kobo.| Jim Nelson
Listen & Be Heard Remix Volume One: a timely blend of our guests reading from their work, and other highlights from previous episodes.| Listen & Be Heard Network
UK author Mo Fanning explores why found family matters to LGBTQ+ people more than ever and how this inspired his new novel.| Mo Fanning Author
Update on the audiobook of A Man Named Baskerville, and the hardcover edition is about to be released.| Jim Nelson
In Gav Thorpe’s The First Wall, there’s an ongoing debate about whether religion is bad for you. On one side is Euphrati Keeler, incipient mystic and star of the rising cult of the God-…| Death is a Whale
Greek Scholar and academician Irene Kavadia reviews Abhilash Fraizer’s new novel ‘The Ballad of the Universe.’ The journey of a novel often mirrors the journey of the human soul &…| India & Masticadores // Editor Abhilash Fraizer
Clifford Thurlow explores his family's links to anti-fascism and what inspired him to write the novel ‘We Shall Pass’, set during the Spanish Civil War … When the Blackshirts marched on Cable Street in the mainly| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Ciao, amici! Just popping in today to share a new book cover. What’s it about? A woman struggling with loneliness, self-worth, finances, and faith finds herself sucked into prior obligations …| Staci Troilo
Bridge Daughter and In My Memory Locked now on Kobo.| Jim Nelson
Seeing the light on serology| PANDA
Why I'm publishing my back catalog to Kobo, and why I've put off doing it for so long.| Jim Nelson
When the world pushes us out, we build our own: How chosen families shape LGBTQ+ lives, resilience, and belonging.| Mo Fanning Author
I'm beginning to add more of my back catalog to Kobo, starting with Edward Teller Dreams of Barbecuing People. More titles will follow.| Jim Nelson
And that's a wrap—MX Publishing's Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville closed earlier today with 81 backers pledging £1,842 (USD$2,241) toward the upcoming Special Edition hardback. Learn more about A Man Named Baskerville on my web site.| Jim Nelson
In a burlesque fusion of murder mystery, dark academia, and autofiction, Coe charts the development of a pro-NHS-privatisation thinktank from its roots in Cambridge in the 1980s to its short-lived triumph with the rise of Liz Truss in 2022, scattering the story between the perspectives variously of a failed conservative novelist, a Cambridge undergraduate, a murdered anti-Tory blogger, a police detective, and a sushi attendant.| Cherwell
Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ There are reviews which are easy to write, because – good or bad – the subject generates a lot to talk about. This is not one of those. It’s a bland slice of semi-urban fantasy, which just… sits there, the literary equivalent of a bowl… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Looking to find writing routines that work for you? Find inspiration from the daily habits of authors like Ernest Hemingway and Maya Angelou.| WeScreenplay
My bestselling novel Room 15 is about to be reissued in a second edition by Blue Coast Publishing. Help me choose the cover.| Charles Harris author
The Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville: Special Edition has raised nearly $1,700 in two weeks, and great donor rewards are still available.| Jim Nelson
Some time in early 2025, you should expect to see a new hardcover and audiobook of Baskerville. I'm especially excited about the audiobook, as this will be the first one produced for my novels.| Jim Nelson
Well, it’s blowing a hooley out there at the moment. Winds howling around the eaves of the house and rain spattering the windows. What a miserable winter we seem to be having so far. Not particularly cold, but at times the damp makes it feel about a hundred below zero. Sort of. Not a day … Continue reading Stormy Weather. Again.| Mick Canning
OVERVIEW I am a fan of this young writer, and this book is as good as the others I’ve read. It is Book 2 in a horror series, and is as scary as Book 1. BLURB In New Haven, everything is chang…| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Flannery O'Connor Previously: Writer's block The year that was 2020 will most likely go down as one of the most significant years of my life: The COVID-19 pandemic, lock-downs and masking, the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing riots, all leading up to the most contentious presidential election...| Jim Nelson
I’ve done the mantra: I’m a brilliant romantic comedy novelist, with a plot that rivals any rom-com flick. But I’m staring at my page like it’s my ex at a wedding. Fear not! Enter the glorious 100 words a day rule. I’ve been experimenting with writing this way for a while, and I’ve got to […]| Nefny Writes
OVERVIEW This series is about the Archangels who make up the Council of Heaven. Each book is about how they find their consorts. A fun read and an interesting concept. BLURB After long …| Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author)
Wounds matter in life and fiction. We've all been hurt in some way and to some degree. Just goes with being human. No one makes it out alive.| Kristen Lamb
Free writing empowers writers to jot their thoughts without being "good." Get free writing prompts and tips to jumpstart your morning pages.| Writers.com
Ciao, amici! Those of you who caught my cover reveal post knew this was coming. Born for Revenge, my new police procedural novel, is now available for pre-order! You’ve seen the cover (please…| Staci Troilo
Today is the start of the Interactive Fiction (IF) Competition 2024, which includes my latest IF title, Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe. Over 67 titles are entered in the competition this year. The great thing about IF Comp is that anyone can play and be a judge.| Jim Nelson
Literary rating: ★★★★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆ One of my favorite fantasy authors, Patricia C. Wrede [pronounced as “Reedy”] began her writing career in the late 70s; this book, published in 1987, is part of one of her earliest bodies of work, the five-novel Lyra series. However, it’s essentially a stand-alone;… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
John Turturro in Barton Fink Previously: An all-too-familiar utopia From a novel-writing perspective, 2018 and 2019 was a creative interregnum. After publishing Hagar's Mother in late 2017, I found myself juggling energy between two books.| Jim Nelson
The Camp Van Dorn massacre seems impossible: could 1,200 US soldiers have been executed by their own side? But sometimes not everything you read is true.| Historic Mysteries
With the dog days of summer upon us, four of my novels are now available on Amazon for the low price of 99¢. Follow the links below to view sample chapters or purchase: A Man Named Baskerville – Sherlock Holmes classic retold In My Memory Locked – Near-future cyberpunk private eye Man in the M...| Jim Nelson
My post on the history of Sherlock Holmes' copyright status has been indexed by Google but is not available via search. In other words, Google's servers have seen the post, they've analyzed the content, but they refuse to add it to their search engine for users to discover.| Jim Nelson
In the Middle of the Night by Riley Sager centres around the 30 year old disappearance of a young boy, revisited when new evidence appears.| Debbish
Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆ The structure here is kinda odd. While each of the three volumes included in this omnibus are effectively standalone stories, they each feel so slight as almost not to be worth bothering with. In particular, there seems to be a lot of descriptive padding,… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Miranda Sherry does the Monster Mash. Arrow, PPB 38.99 What do a Boer trekker girl, a serial killer, and a giant mechanical octopus have in common? Well nothing, obviously. However, in his debut novel, Apocalypse Now Now, Charlie Human deftly convinces us that they’re part of an intricate plot to bring about the end of the world. His concise, unfussy writing style, riotous dialogue and sharply drawn characters ensure that, however implausible, you’re only too happy to go along for the rid...| Arcfinity
Joe Vaz feels invaded Orbit, PPB £8.99 You have no idea what to make of this. You meet Lieutenant “Lucky” Quinto as he leads a platoon to uncover a cache of military weapons hidden ages ago beneath the ground in an abandoned mine. It seems as though you’re reading a piece of military SF. You’re in Starship Troopers territory, or that’s what you assume: army guys battle aliens. Except that a few pages later you realise that Quinto’s platoon is lacking in true soldiers. The war has...| Arcfinity
What’s the good of virtue, asks Nan Craig The Borough Press, £16.99 No harm can come to a good man, said Aristotle, and the hero of James Smythe’s latest novel, Lawrence Walker, is a Good Man. So say (repeatedly) his family, his campaign manager, the people in the small town where he lives and the people he represents as a Senator. So when a video prediction of his chances as a Presidential candidate appears to show him threatening his terrified family, it’s something of a surprise to ...| Arcfinity
No amount of literary motley can save a bad premise, says Nina Allan Harper Voyager, HB £12.99 Noria Kaitio lives in a small village in the north of what has become known as the Scandinavian Union. Her story takes place several centuries in our future, at a time where global warming has melted the polar ice caps and the world’s political and environmental geography has been permanently and dramatically altered as a result. Fresh water is a precious commodity, and strictly rationed. Noria...| Arcfinity
AUTHOR: Colleen Hoover ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 2022 GENRE: Contemporary · Fiction · Romance · Young Adult GOODREADS RATING: 3.9/5 BUY ON AMAZON: KINDLE | PAPERBACK Read the review on Instagram | Goodreads ‘It Starts with US’ picks up the lives of Lily, Atlas, and Ryle from where ‘It Ends with Us’ ends. With Lily and Ryle divorced with their new-born daughter in […]| Bookish Bubble
AUTHOR: Colleen Hoover ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 2016 GENRE: Contemporary · Fiction · Romance · Young Adult GOODREADS RATING: 4.2/5 BUY ON AMAZON: KINDLE | PAPERBACK Read the review on Instagram ‘It Ends with Us’ is a romance novel with a deeply heart wrenching story of Lily Bloom, our protagonist. The book starts on an apartment building’s rooftop in Boston where Lily is […]| Bookish Bubble
The Last Kind Words| The Pittsburgh Book Review
The James Jones Fellowship Contest is now in its 29th year. It awards $10,000 to an American writer with a first fiction novel in progress in 2020. Two runners-up may each receive $1000. Entrants are… The post James Jones $10,000 Fellowship Contest for First-time Fiction Novelists is Open to Entries appeared first on Aerogramme Writers' Studio.| Aerogramme Writers' Studio
Free Chapter From My Upcoming New Thriller | Sean Willson: Author of Dark Nebula and the Portalverse| Sean Willson: Author of Dark Nebula and the Portalverse
Storytelling is the process of weaving language to create rich, believable experiences. Learn the art of storytelling here.| Writers.com
What is symbolism in literature? Writers use this device to represent abstract ideas in concrete language. Learn more about symbolism here.| Writers.com
Camp Damascus (Tor Nightfire/MacMillan/Titan), Novel, 2023| The Bram Stoker Awards
The series #ELRBOOKS continues with Mez Breeze’s top five recommendations. In her first interview for the ELR Mez Breeze, talked about her work in the field of new media with a focus on her way of working with different media. With the following review the XR artist and VR/electronic literature developer brings us back to […]| electronicliteraturereview
The following review for the series #ELRBOOKS comes as a series of recommendations by Sandy Baldwin who is currently working as an independent writer. Nevertheless, this review features far more than five books and, in the best tradition of metafiction, his suggestions are directly addressed to the readers who are interested in electronic literature and […]| electronicliteraturereview
I had a small stroke of luck a few weeks ago and found a handful of Patricia Wentworth titles in a charity shop that included a couple of my personal favourites; it seemed like an opportune time fo…| Noah's Archives
I’m happy to share that my debut novel, LOOKING FOR GARBO is being released today by Amphorae Publishing Group. It’s been a long time in coming and I have to thank my agent, Jill Marr a…| iheartingrid
“When Johnny comesMarching home againHe’s coming by bus or undergroundA woman’s eye will shed a tearTo see his face so beaten in fearAn’ it was just around the corner in the…| Red Flag Walks
For the past three months, I’ve been working on an R&R for an agent. In part this has been to improve my novel’s wordcount.| A Frame Around Infinity
Ah, the irony! Having last month complained about wordcount conventions for aspiring authors, particularly the idea that their books should be as short as possible, I’m now devoting even more words…| A Frame Around Infinity
