Month: February 2022
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Jessie Mihalik
February 28th, 2022 Jessie Mihalik has a degree in Computer Science and a love of all things geeky. A software engineer by trade, Jessie now writes full time from her home in Texas. When she’s not writing, she can be found playing co-op video games with her husband, trying out new board games, or reading…
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The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Released March 15th, 2022 The Kaiju Preservation Society is everything and more that I’ve come to expect from John Scalzi. The book opens with Jamie losing their job at the beginning of the pandemic. I know this is relatable to most people, but I felt very connected to the main character’s plight because Jamie was…
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Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Released February 1st, 2022 Dead Silence is a wonderful example of Sci-Fi Horror. The story starts off with Claire in the “Tower”, a place where undesirables and people who are unstable are sent after missions with Verux, a large corporation that reminds me of Wayland Yutani. Here Claire starts to tell investigators what happened to…
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Nick Podehl
December 11, 2020 ick Podehl is a narrator of primarily fantasy and LitRPG. That does not mean that is what he is limited to though. He voices entire casts of books on the regular and makes it look easy! Check out GameLit Society on Facebook for upcoming titles and to interact with some of the…
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Dr. Beebe Bahrami
November 27, 2020 Beebe Bahrami is the author of The Spiritual Traveler Spain and Historic Walking Guides Madrid. Her work has appeared in Archaeology, Wine Enthusiast, Bark, The Pennsylvania Gazette, National Geographic Books, and Michelin Green Guides, among other publications. She has written two travel apps, The Esoteric Camino France and Spain and Madrid Walks,…
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M.R. Carey
November 13, 2020 M. R. Carey is a writer who is equally at home in a wide range of media. His previous novel The Girl With All the Gifts was a word-of-mouth-bestseller and is soon to be a major motion picture based on his own screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he has written for…
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Dakota Krout
October 30, 2020 Dakota Krout is the author of many LitRPG books, including The Completionist Chronicles. With familiarity in programming and playing games, he decided to start writing books because he was interested in creating worlds that force the main character to develop. In his stories, characters undergo serious moral dilemmas and become stronger through…
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Charlie J. Eskew
October 16, 2020 Charlie J. Eskew is a writer from Columbus, Ohio. He is a professional comic book shop lurker and tenured Black dude in America. Please satisfy your unnatural obsession with him via Twitter @CJEskew or his website, http://www.askeweskew.com. Trapped in a dead-end job in his Ohio hometown, watching the girl of his dreams…
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Kacen Callender
October 2, 2020 Born and raised in St. Thomas of the US Virgin Islands, Kacen Callender is a bestselling and award-winning author of the middle-grade novels Hurricane Child and King and the Dragonflies, the young-adult novels This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story and Felix Ever After, and the adult novel Queen of the…
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How I evaluate books
Most of these categories are going to seem muddled. That is because they are. It is hard to separate characterization from world-building, just as it is hard to separate writing style from story. And the impact a work will have or even does have is sometimes very difficult to talk about, but I will endeavor…
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