It is surreal and unsettling to try and promote a book, coming out later this month, about the future of crime and criminality when all around us law enforcement appear to be rioting in the streets for their right to… Read More ›
VernacularBooks is thrilled to announce the forthcoming horror and dark fantasy anthology EVIL IN TECHNICOLOR edited by Joe M McDermott, and featuring the work of 10 authors: Stina Leicht, E. Catherine Tobler, A. C. Wise, Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein, Adam Gallardo, Haralambi… Read More ›
Howdy to all you folks staying safe and social distancing and doing the best you can. The first thing I saw was an advance look at the ALA Booklist review coming out in June. “It’s an entertaining collection featuring a… Read More ›
I stayed up far too late at night, and pushed through the final few chapters of this old, entertaining title. I brushed up against that moment that always seems to come, in a game like this, where I am suddenly… Read More ›
Anyone who knows me knows I love short fiction. I love reading it, I love writing it, it just feels so perfect. Novels have their place, don’t get me wrong, but when it comes to just sitting down and reading… Read More ›
Sometimes being chased around a graveyard is exactly what you need. Life in lockdown has hit in surprisingly unusual ways for me, affecting what I choose to read and sending life skittering away, the off axis torque of the pandemic… Read More ›
In truth, many days passed before I had the time or inclination to revisit this ancient adventure. The whims of fate and time dragged me off to care for my son and finish out a semester with students. I left… Read More ›
The podcast is a new art form for the digital age, and seemed fairly complete as it is. People talk into microphones, record the words, and provide them for download over the internet. They build a brand as a sort… Read More ›
Vernacular Books is thrilled to announce Marie Vibbert’s Galactic Hellcats, a novel in which a female biker gang in space must learn to trust each other while rescuing a gay prince from a totalitarian regime on an alien planet, will… Read More ›
The world is three petals of a single flower. On one petal, humans live and work and mine and struggle. In another petal, the dreamy realm of dangerous fae-like gentry lives just under the skin of the world. Beneath that,… Read More ›