There’s a strange magic to Holy Island, to Lindisfarne; a strange magic that sustains her.   (quote from In Darkened Corners ) In 2014, as ...

Please join me in welcoming novelist Marian O'Shea Wernicke, who has a guest post about the research (including travel!) necessary for h...

In centuries past, Rome’s Colosseum was home to abundant varieties of plant life. Returning to the Eternal City with another multi-period no...

Please pardon the blog silence from the last week and more. Things have been extremely chaotic at my workplace (the EIU faculty union went o...

Whether you’re seeking a cracking thriller, an empowering portrait of sisterhood, or a story steeped in the Black experience in the 1960s De...

Jaime Jo Wright has carved out an original niche in the genre landscape. Her award-winning novels are multi-period Midwestern horror with a ...

So many novels set to appear in the coming months have cover designs that entice me to buy the book for that alone. The stories within sound...

Has anyone else been watching Daisy Jones & the Six on Amazon Prime? I haven’t read the novel (by Taylor Jenkins Reid), about the tumu...

Following Varina (2018), Frazier is in top form for his fifth novel, which traverses America in its portrait of contrasting Depression-era l...

Click.  Ryan Flannigan still flinches at the sound of a camera shutter, since it recalls her formative years as a child model and actress an...

In 1859, in an all-Black town in Canada West (now called Ontario), a hub for the Underground Railroad, a female journalist agrees to intervi...

Witches are an increasingly popular subject in historical fiction. Incorporating themes of misogyny and women's power, strength, and wis...

In Clark’s twelfth and last mystery in the Hildegard of Meaux series, set in 1394 Yorkshire, tensions are nigh at breaking point. The novice...

A collaboration between two longtime friends has resulted in a unique historical novel about two couples – one Black and one Jewish – whose ...

This short, compassionately written, and powerful novel is told in the unquenchable voice of Karen “Kit” Crockett, who is raised by her whit...

Feminist retellings of Greek myths are all the rage, and Haynes stands among the foremost authors in this area. Her third such novel melds ...

The quest for a perfect society is woven into the American experience. Through his bittersweet novel, Banks explores the flaws in the design...

The 2023 Book and Media Award announcements from the American Library Association's LibLearnX conference in New Orleans were broadcast o...

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been fascinated by ChatGPT , the artificial intelligence chatbot that responds to prompts in a conversatio...