Chilling Reads for Chilly Days
Coldest Girl in Coldtown cover © Hachette, 2014. The Strain cover © HarperCollins, 2009. Halloween is in two days, and winter is right around the corner. This is my favorite time of year to read...
View ArticleUpcoming Reading for 2015
Images: Jo Fletcher Books, Saga Press, PM Press, Orbit Press. ‘Tis the season for looking at what books will be published in the coming year! I’ve seen many such lists on the web in the last couple of...
View Article10 Questions With Amelia Smith From Big Giant Swords
Amelia Smith, image courtesy Discovery Channel As the Discovery Channel’s Big Giant Swords heads into its season finale, GeekMom asked Amelia Smith, whose husband, blacksmith “Irish” Mike, is the...
View ArticleThe Depths of The Riverman Triology
Image By Farrar Straus Giroux Press “Aargh!” I yelled. My son poked his head out of his room, “You finished the second book, right?” “Yes!” “It’s so good, right?” “YES!!” “And now we have to wait for...
View ArticleJeff Salyards: Finding Magic & Living Fantasy
Photo: Jeff Salyards Dark epic fantasy author and fellow geek Jeff Salyards was kind enough to share this post with me when I asked him what it was like taking his little girls to a Renaissance Faire...
View Article‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell’: The Friends of English Magic
@ BBC America I was first introduced to the world of English Magic, as it pertains to Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, back in 2007. The book, penned in 2004 by Susanna Clarke, sat on my shelf for...
View ArticleWelcome To the World of Aetaltis!
Image: Mechanical Muse, LLC “Journey to a distant land where bold adventurers wield magical blades against dark creatures from the shadowy depths. Thrill to the arcane power of enigmatic sorcerers as...
View ArticleGeek Speaks… Fiction! Guest Author J. Kathleen Cheney
Image: Melanie R. Meadors Please help us welcome fantasy author J. Kathleen Cheney to GeekMom! Ms. Cheney is the author of The Golden City series from Roc Books. The Shores of Spain, book 3 in the...
View ArticleGeek Speaks… Fiction! by Aliette de Bodard
Today’s guest on Geek Speaks… Fiction is author Aliette de Bodard. Order on Amazon image courtesy Ace/Roc Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she works as a System Engineer and herds a...
View ArticleEscaping Into a Loop-the-Loop World of Fantasy
When folks read stories by James Walley, they mention things like “fun,” “crazy,” “hilarious,” and “insane.” They compare his writing style to Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. Is writing a novel like...
View ArticleGeeking Out About Horses and Making Childhood Dreams Come True
Today we welcome young adult fantasy author Lila Bowen to GeekMom’s Geek Speaks…Fiction! You might know her as Delilah S. Dawson: writer, artist, horse-lover, and geek extraordinaire. Here she is,...
View ArticleBeware the Horsemen! Mark Lawrence Brings on the Apocalypse With New Game
When I found out that Mark Lawrence, a popular grimdark/dark fantasy author (The Broken Empire series, The Red Queen’s War series) was designing a new game, I had to check it out. It looks like...
View ArticleDo Not Mess With Grandmothers: Erin M. Evans Geeks Out
This week we welcome fantasy author Erin M. Evans as our guest to Geek Speaks…Fiction! She talks about about the role grandmothers play in fantasy, specifically in her own recent release, Ashes of the...
View ArticleAlpha Workshop: Summer Solved for Teen Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror...
Know a teen aged 14-19 whose notebooks are overflowing with spaceships and lycanthropes? Who has NASA’s New Horizons mission bookmarked as a research guide for their next novel? Maybe they (and you)...
View ArticleNot Bad, Jon Favreau. Not Bad: ‘The Shannara Chronicles’ Series Premiere in...
It is always a bittersweet time for me when I settle in to watch a television series or movie based on a beloved book or series of books. I had the same mix of excitement and dread when I watched the...
View ArticleShoebox Time Machine: Jeff Salyards Geeks Out About the Past
This week I invited epic fantasy/grimdark author Jeff Salyards to GeekMom to tell us what made him geek out while he was writing his Bloodsounder’s Arc series. The third book of the series, Chains of...
View Article‘The Shannara Chronicles’ Episode 1.3 -‘Fury’
Have you started watching The Shannara Chronicles yet? If you haven’t, I think you should. The show is not at all what I was expecting (read: hoping for) but I’m finding myself enjoying it just as it...
View ArticleSave ‘JourneyQuest’! In Defense of Morally Ambiguous Female Characters
Today I welcome guest actress Emilie Shimkus, who plays Wren on the fan-funded, fan-favorite show JourneyQuest, which is currently in its last day on Kickstarter! She lets us know why this show is...
View ArticleLetting the Oddity Live On: A Salute to Diana Wynne Jones
I’ve had those times when I’ve actively mourned “celebrities”—artists, let’s call them because it isn’t the fame that made them important to me, and I think the “celebrity” label cheapens that...
View ArticleTaking a Fresh Perspective on a Familiar World
Reading Time: 3 minutesImage: Melanie R. Meadors This week on Geek Speaks…Fiction! we welcome fantasy author Gail Z. Martin! With her latest book, The Shadowed Path, Gail returns to the world of her...
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