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• Emilia Barret’s August Streaming Viewer’s Guide

  By ericmbosarge on August 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In this post, Vernacular’s resident satirist picks on their favorite shows and movies streaming for the month of August.

• Cover Reveal: The Wasp Child by Rhiannon Rasmussen

  By ericmbosarge on July 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Available from Vernacular Books in March 2022, this sci-fi novella breathes new life into some of Kafka’s themes about capitalist society and identity present in some of his most famous works (like The Metamorphosis) by setting them on Meridian Colony,… Read More ›

• Cara Musashi reviews two versions of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

  By editorialmonster on July 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  When you ask an avid reader why they choose to spend so much of their time reading, you’re likely to get a variety of answers. Perhaps one of the most common — including my own personal reason — is because… Read More ›

• The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

  By ericmbosarge on July 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  By Megan Bosarge What’s more important in a novel? Great writing or a great story? Is there a difference between the two? And is it wrong to tell someone else’s story? Such are the probing questions in Jean Hanff Korelitz… Read More ›

• Ka by John Crowley

  By editorialmonster on July 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The author John Crowley needs no introduction. His masterwork, Little, Big, is on Harold Bloom’s list of 100 great books, and widely credited as an influence among leading authors of our time, like Elizabeth Hand and Neil Gaiman, and his… Read More ›

• Where You Linger and Other Stories by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, forthcoming in 2021!

  By editorialmonster on July 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  We are very pleased to announce that we will be publishing a mosaic book by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam in 2021, set in a magical place like our own, but haunted with bone animals, phantoms, and more. The mosaic explores the… Read More ›

• FICTION: The Star Seed Witches Meet at Midnight by Patrice Sarath

  By editorialmonster on July 15, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  The Star Seed Witches Meet at Midnight By Patrice Sarath Copyright 2021 All Rights Reserved Cover Art from “Study of Witches Going to their Sabbath” by Luis Ricardo Falero from Wikimedia Commons The Open 24 Hours sign was a beacon… Read More ›

• K.J. Parker’s Inside Man

  By ericmbosarge on July 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Once upon a time, Joss Whedon launched a little blockbuster named Avengers and, in one of a billion interviews, spoke of how the faceless people in black masks holding automatic weapons and carelessly broken by superheroes were actually important, and shouldn’t be overlooked. Those little people have stories to tell. They can push the drama in new and exciting directions, if you let them. It’s potent writing advice and you can tell KJ Parker was thinking along the same lines, if not taking it to heart.

• Natania Barron wins 2021 Manly Wade Wellman Award!

  By ericmbosarge on July 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The competition for this award was quite daunting, as North Carolina boasts a bevy of talented writers, but ultimately Barron’s unique, feminist retelling that captures a view of King Arthur’s court from a vantage never before imagined, won the hearts of judges.

• Reviewer Shout Out Time!

  By editorialmonster on July 9, 2021 • ( 0 )

  We love to see reviews of our books posted to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, personal blogs, Facebook pages — even just a quick note on Twitter! The most helpful thing any reader can do for an author is to… Read More ›

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