It isn’t every day I get to ask one of my idols about writing. So, imagine my excitement last weekend while attending the Miami Book Fair online, when I realized the illustrious author and poet Margaret Atwood was going to take questions from the audience. My mind, naturally, went blank—years […]
From the outside, V.E. Schwab’s life looks as charmed as they come: Signed with a literary agent by 19. First book deal by 21. Well over a dozen books by 33, with her most ambitious to date, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, released just this week, along with news […]
Twice a day, just before dawn and again at twilight, the bird known as the common swift performs a sort of miracle. It soars to heights of up to 6,000 feet in the atmosphere, spiraling so high it can forecast the weather. The swift then calibrates its position by the […]
I have a confession to make. I have always been attracted to a certain kind of story. A story that involves, first and foremost, a sense of wonder. A place – usually wild, but at very least a break from my everyday world – that is hidden or secret or […]
One of the things I love about speculative fiction is the way it lets you play with impossible, outlandish concepts while still exploring age-old questions about the human condition. How ironic, then, that readers of science fiction and fantasy are some of the toughest crowds when it comes to […]
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