![]() ![]() Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. ![]() Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA. ![]() Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her Wicked Series has been into a feature film by PassionFlix. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion, Harlequin Teen and Blue Box Press. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. ![]()
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![]() ![]() By preferring to keep out of the limelight and by orchestrating a cooperative of the various criminal elements at street level, he wiped out the infighting. ![]() Operating on a different style to other, more flamboyant, gangsters, boss Vito Rizzuto managed to bring a long period of stability to the organised crime scene. But also has flashbacks to the 80s and 90s. ![]() This Montreal mafia gangster controlled all organized crime throughout the city as well as southern Quebec and Ontario.Ĭreated by Michael Konyves and Simon Barry, the series focuses mostly on the period from the early 2000s to 2013. Canadian series Bad Blood is based on the real Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto's life. Whether you are watching the fantasy stylings of Game Of Thrones, the descent into narcissistic egotism in Breaking Bad, or the complex interplay in The Wire, the central draw is often the same: how difficult it is to obtain and keep power. ![]() ![]() Perhaps most transformative of all in terms of the 30-year-old author’s profile, it’s the novel the super-influencer (and poster girl for a new breed of bookish supermodel) Emily Ratajkowski had her nose buried in while sunning herself in the Hamptons back in August. It saw Leilani declared a writer of “exhilarating freedom and daring” by Zadie Smith, a mentor and her professor on the MFA programme at New York University. ![]() Released in the US over the summer and hitting UK shelves next month, Luster, which follows the sexual entanglements of twenty-something New Yorker Edie, is already in the running for a string of literary prizes. It took a little over a year to write, but I worked on it in a number of workshops. ![]() But though her typical millennial experiences – Leilani lives in Brooklyn and worked as a Postmates delivery girl as an aspiring writer fresh out of college – helped to inform her debut novel, the buzz the book is generating means the author herself is now anything but. Raven Leilani: It began during the second semester of my first year in NYU’s MFA program. Raven Leilani’s voice is bubbling over with enthusiasm when she answers the phone, despite a time difference that means our conversation is taking place at an hour the typical millennial might consider less than ideal. ![]() ![]() (I mention those credentials because, in this business, credentials seems relevant, and because their critique of Bendell implicitly critiques his credentials.) Clarifying what that impulse is can be helpful when one is trying to disentangle the arguments between the movement and its critics.Įarlier this week, Open Democracy published a lengthy article entitled “ The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation,” co-written by a University of York physics PhD student, a Brown University climate and development researcher, and a graduate of Columbia University. When it gets critiqued on empirical grounds, as it has been recently - and when it gets defended on those same grounds - the spiritual impulse underlying the movement might get lost. Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation movement is, in my view, a spiritual movement. As a (sometime) scholar of religion and spirituality, I avoid those assumptions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, I define both “ spiritual” and “ religious” quite broadly, and am well aware of how both terms have been shaped within histories that are Eurocentric and dominated by monotheistic, Christian, and more recently Protestant assumptions about what constitutes religion (and “spirit”) and what does not. I’ve long been receptive to the idea that we need a spiritual, or even a religious, movement to address the climate crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the fate of the ship-and the Vestrits-may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will. ![]() For Altheas young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtowns oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. ![]() Martin Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships-rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Book Synopsis The first novel in Robin Hobbs beloved Liveship Traders Trilogy Even better than the Farseer Trilogy-I didnt think that was possible.-George R. Soon Althea is forced to fight both men to regain the animate, intelligent liveship, her familys most treasured possession. The ruthless pirate Captain Kennit also sees a captured liveship as his key to success. Though expected to inherit her familys newly quickened liveship, Althea Vestrit loses the honor to her scheming brother-in-law, who plans to use it as a slave ship. About the Book Demonstrating world-building finesse, Robin Hobb begins the climatic story of a seafaring clan and its tangled destiny. ![]() ![]() Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine. He has only the vaguest idea of what to expect. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. They don't want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Įarth itself is a backwater. So, we fight, to defend Earth and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. ![]() The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce - and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. ![]() The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both have a formulaic structure, and neither pretends to be a model of high literary achievement. Both are about delightfully implausible adventures, both are about teenage boys ready to take on rough and tumble scenarios typically the province of adults, both are fast paced thrillers with a dose of mystery. I knew Stormbreaker was different from the adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy, but at first I was focused on the close similarities. Stormbreaker is about fourteen-year-old Alex Rider, an orphan, who upon the mysterious death of his uncle, suddenly finds himself recruited into MI6 as a spy, and sent to scout out the secret plots of an apparently philanthropic businessman who has offered to donate state-of-the-art computers to all the schools across England. Whatever I expected from Stormbreaker, the first book in the Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, I did not expect the initial urge to compare the book to the classic Hardy Boys series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these tales, which often feature an unexpectedly cruel or bizarre twist, Taylor offers a clever mixture of horror and black humour that will delight fans of the genre. Grant as the finest ghost story of all time. The thirteen stories collected here represent the complete short fiction of Bernard Taylor, one of the bestselling horror authors of the 1970s and '80s, author of The Godsend and Mother's Boys, both adapted for film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart, hailed by Charles L. On this podcast we talk blood, guts, and spoilers so listener discretion is. In this episode, we discuss folk horror, the rejection of the maternal, and the importance of a good book cover. ![]() And in 'Samhain', marital strife threatens to turn deadly when a witch turns to black magic to do away with her pathetic husband. With its languid storytelling and inversion of Gothic tropes, Bernard Taylor’s THE REAPING is an exercise in patience with a supremely satisfying payoff. A tourist fascinated by the serial killer John Reginald Christie undergoes an uncanny and horrific experience on a trip to London in 'Forget-Me-Not'. In 'Travelling Light', a traveller is obliged to share a room with a strange man who seems to know a little too much about a series of bizarre murders in which wives have been slain by their husbands. In 'Out of Sorts', things get hairy for a man's wife and his mistress when he begins to feel unwell on the night of a full moon. The complete short fiction of a master of modern horror fiction ![]() ![]() He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. ![]() Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. ![]() Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here scholars gather every January, performing the time-honored rite of solemnly chanting 20-minute papers before one another in hotel conference rooms. I was back: I was at MLA (short for “Modern Language Association”), the annual pageant for literary studies, my old vocation. In an instant it failed me - my Stuart Smalley self-talk, my diligent pregaming on bourbon - and I stood there in the lobby effectively naked, a gibbering infant exposed to the light. But then I got to the Hyatt Regency, and the automatic doors at front opened before me like a sort of maw, and I ventured in. It was brazen and ballsy, what I was doing, and I was to be commended for it. Fresh off the bus to downtown Chicago, eased by a steady titration since breakfast of Maker’s Mark, I’d fairly danced down Wacker Drive, rolling suitcase in tow. I’d been doing fine all day - merrily, even. ![]() |