The Circle Never Breaks: On Mister Magic, Childhood Horror, and the Stories That Know Us Before We Know Ourselves There is a moment in Kiersten White’s Mister Magic that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read it: A slow understanding of why five people, thirty […]
Feature: We’re Here. We’re Queer. And We’re Still Fighting. Today kicks off Banned Books Week, and October is also LGBTQ+ History Month. We want to start it with something that is both a celebration and a reminder of why these designations matter. We’re Here, We’re Queer! A History of LGBTQ+ […]
Feature: Tradwife by Michelle Brandon & The Fantasy That was Never for Us Welcome to October, y’all. What better way to kick off spooky szn than with the real horrors we live with! But for real, in just a few days, it will be Banned Books Week and we are […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Demonology for Overachievers by Lily Anderson I started following Lily Anderson back when we were both in the Bay Area. My book club at the time went to one of her launch events, which was also close to the beginning of my own blogging journey. She was […]
Feature: Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez came out in 2001, which means it arrived at a moment when queer YA was not a genre so much as a handful of books that had to fight to exist. Three high school seniors, three different relationships to […]
Feature: Of Sorcery and Science by Mike Chen One thing we love learning about is how authors come to write in the genre(s) they land in. Mike Chen’s niche, which he found after two rejected novels and fifteen years of balancing tech writing with a dream of being a novelist, […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Espiritu by Aiden Thomas When Cemetery Boys came out in September 2020, Kelly bought eight copies. Two still live in her library. The other six she pressed into people’s hands because that is what you do with a book that has your whole heart. She called […]
Audiobook Review & Author Interview: Building 903 by Lois Lowry, Banned Together and the Unite to Read Project with Alyssa Chrisman, and Why This Moment Needs It All Books have always been one of the first things power tries to control, and the people who fight back have always been […]
Feature: Golden Boy by A. J. Symon Golden Boy by A.J. Symon, out next month, asks a question that every dog owner has thought at least once: what would your dog be like if they were human? When Emma Branch accidentally turns her golden retriever Hudson into a human teenager […]
Feature: This Is Your Fault, Fourth Grade August is National Dog Month, and we are getting a head start this week! If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you know exactly what kind of dog people we are. Someone handed you Where the Red Fern Grows in fourth […]