Constantly Reading, Constantly Changing with Eloisa James
At the Creative Independent, romance novelist and Shakespeare professor Eloisa James (whose real name is Mary Bly) discusses how she keeps her writing process fresh, whether...
More Questions Than Answers Arise As Manuscript Thief Caught
A five-year mystery has been (mostly) solved, as the FBI arrested Italian citizen and UK publishing worker Filippo Bernardini yesterday on charges of impersonation and fraud....
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 6, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams Get This Deal $1.99 Exhalation: Stories by...
8 Novels About Surviving in the Wilderness
Though I am not a horse woman or cow person, I recently found myself writing an American Western. Pity the Beast started innocently enough—as a short...
A Turkish American Novel About A Melancholic Young Woman in Istanbul
Growing up, once a year my anneanne (maternal grandmother) would visit my family in our suburban home in Ohio. Before returning to Istanbul, she never failed...
These LGBTQ and Antiracist Books are Being Review Bombed by Book Banners
2021 was a banner year for book challenges. Right wing groups organized protests across the country that claimed that porn was in school libraries — with...
Books to Boost Young Readers’ Cultural Literacy
As a parent, I love books that create space for conversations with my kiddo. Sure, we talk a lot about cats (her favorite thing ever) and...
15 YA Books Like FROM BLOOD AND ASH
There are many bookish “best of both worlds” scenarios, and I have to admit that one of my absolute favorites is fantasy romance. You get all...
The Coming Out Narrative: We Deserve More
For the LGBTQ+ community, the coming out narrative is extremely important. It gives us hope, it can serve as catharsis, and it is often a time...
13 Skin-Crawling Body Horror Books
Body horror books are a mainstay sub-genre of horror. We as humans seem to have a fascination with learning about the limitations of the human body...
