Category Archives: Books

Pick up your next J-horror read with my list at Unbound Worlds

My first piece for Unbound Worlds is an installment in their So You Want to Read series: Ghost stories have been part of Japanese literature since the Heian period, from 794 to 1185, and modern Japanese horror is more accessible for English-language readers than ever before. Focusing on psychological horror and frequently incorporating folk religion elementsContinue reading “Pick up your next J-horror read with my list at Unbound Worlds”

I interviewed one of my favorite authors and lived to tell the tale

I was a little concerned about it when I got on the interview call to guest host the Skiffy & Fanty interview with Ann Leckie for the release of Provenance. But it ended up totally fine. Here’s the show description: Space Opera, heritage, and alien ambassadors, oh my! Shaun is joined by guest host Feliza CasanoContinue reading “I interviewed one of my favorite authors and lived to tell the tale”

Drop what you’re doing and go buy Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE

Maybe I’m being a bit dramatic. But I’m also not. Provenance marks a return to the universe of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, which began in 2013 with the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Provenance is similarly centered around a plot of intergalactic political intrigue, following a young woman who’s frankly too inexperienced to navigate the situation she’s put herself in.Continue reading “Drop what you’re doing and go buy Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE”

One-week warning: August 2017 Girls in Capes Book Club

We’re one week out from our August book club discussion of The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi: Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart whenContinue reading “One-week warning: August 2017 Girls in Capes Book Club”