“Contact” by Joanna Homer was recommended to me by a friend, and I have to admit I was skeptical of it at first. The book involves a teenage girl in Britain discovering aliens living among humans on earth. At the time the book was recommended Read More …
As a writer, I read a lot of books. In my alter ego as a youth librarian I also read a lot of books, which means I have a rather eclectic list of titles I read. Many adults never take the time to even consider Read More …
Samurai Rising is a very interesting book about the early days of the Samurai’s rise to power in Japan. A non-fiction title about a real samurai, Minamoto Yoshitsune, the book is all the more epic when you consider that most of the stories shared in Read More …
Two of my all time favorite fantasy authors are Robert Jordan and Terry Brooks. The two authors who together inspired me to write fantasy of my own. I was quite sad when Robert Jordan died, as we all were, in part because I never got Read More …
Before I begin this review, no I don’t intend to review YA titles every time, but I am a YA librarian in my day job so they represent a pretty big chunk of what I read. Plus there’s some darn good fantasy in YA, so Read More …
“Starflight” by Melissa Landers is a YA novel about two recently graduated teens from earth who are headed to the outer rim of the Solar League for different reasons. Solara Brooks for a job; after all, when you’ve got felony tattoos on your fingers its Read More …
“We do not want any stories that feature a talking sword”. These are the words that inspired my friend Lindsay Schopfer to write the short story Sharp Sword, Dull Sword, which appears in his anthology Magic, Mystery and Mirth. In the book Lindsay describes looking Read More …
If you’re both a reader and a gamer, as I am, you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of finishing a novel, setting it down and thinking to yourself, “Dang. Someone should really make a video game out of that.” I think we can all agree that Read More …
I’ll be the first to admit that I rarely reread novels. Although this seems to make me a bit unusual among writers, I’m generally too eager to move on the next great book in my pile to want to revisit an old one, no matter Read More …
If you’re both a reader and a gamer, as I am, you’ve undoubtedly had the experience of finishing a novel, setting it down and thinking to yourself, “Dang. Someone should really make a video game out of that.” I think we can all agree that Read More …
