A queen of a divided land must unite her people, even if they hate her, even if it means stopping a ruin that she helped create. A debut epic fantasy from an exciting new voice. “I murdered a man and made my husband leave the night before they crowned me.” Born under the crumbling towers […]
So, when I was a kid, I read a lot of horror. I mean, I read across all the genres, really, as I became a rather hungry reader — very early on I had a pretty weird slate of books I was digesting, everything from Stephen King to Douglas Westlake to Douglas Adams, and then […]
In the last year or so, I’ve gotten an increasing number of blurb requests for books that are not yet sold to a publisher. They’re “done,” in that the author has completed a draft of some iteration, and gotten an agent with that draft. But the book ain’t really done. No editor has likely touched […]
Hey, so if you follow me on Twitter, you might know that sometimes I tweet inane, absurd, “motivational” (air-quotes probably necessary) tweets every morning. (Similar to Lin-Manuel’s, though obviously his are far less, um, weird than mine are.) Aaaaaanyway, long story short, there’s this: NYT bestseller Chuck Wendig’s YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, MAGIC SKELETON, an illustrated collection of […]
It is no surprise that I like apples. I mean, I suppose this could be new information for you, if you’ve been living in some kind of subterranean grotto. So, if you have just emerged from your lightless earth womb, let it be said again: I am a big damn fan of apples. Not the phone […]
I’m honestly full of light and love and bees about how much people seem to be enjoying WANDERERS — I don’t know that I’ve ever gotten as many emails and tweets and such about any other book, the Aftermath series included. It’s heartening and wonderful and so it’s especially cool to make the Locus Reading […]