October 30, 2026 View Online | Join All Access | Listen Put a little love into your Halloween weekend with romances ranging from cozy to creepy to scary. Spread the word. Share this email with friends. THE HEADLINE AI continues to encroach on the literary world A publisher threw a party for an AI employee.…
Quick, before you scroll: how many of the top five most read books on Goodreads this month can you name? Here are some hints. Four are 2026 releases, and one has recently had a movie adaptation. The genres represented are thrillers, historical fiction, and romantasy. Okay, let’s see how you did! 3 New Books Out…
As the end of the year approaches, it’s hard not to speculate about which 2026 books will be up for awards. These 10 new middle grade books by award-winning authors could certainly be contenders. While middle grade might be going through a bit of a publishing slump amid declining sales, book bans, and funding cuts,…
If you were to do an internet search for “Frankenstein comic books,” you might expect to find nothing but horror comics and maybe a Classics Illustrated adaptation. But Frankenstein’s Monster has had a surprisingly long history in superhero comics, too. Both DC and Marvel have played with the OG enormous green rage monster over the…
While I’ve always been a chicken when it comes to horror, I devoured Apple TV’s new horror comedy series Widow’s Bay. The humor in the show is incredible. It reminds me why I love Shaun of the Dead so much: it’s simultaneously hilarious and terrifying, which makes for exactly the kind of combination I need…
Having written this column since mid-2021, I sometimes forget what I’ve covered. In some ways, I haven’t written anything new in the world of book censorship because the tactics, goals, and outcomes have not changed much at all over the course of this significant era of censorship, even if the trends in how those means…
This book came to my attention at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, during one of the 14 events I took part in as the festival’s Literary Explorer in Residence this year. The event in question was called the International Bookshelf. It involved me discussing trends in world-literature publishing with European Literature Network founder Rosie Goldsmith and…
London Overhead, a fantastical city above London, is invisible except to its winged human Librae. Eleven-year-old Astrid, new to this world, loves London Overhead and was eager to finally fledge—and fly. Disastrously, though, her wings don’t work, which may spell banishment, a fate her unfledged Pakistani British friend, Pent, also faces. A monthlong festival brings…
Author interview for Wish Upon A Falling Leaf (A Cozy Vales Collection Book 5)
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