Joanna Poncavage

Fiction

An Empire’s Fate Falls Into Question in Medieval Fantasy “Sarana and the Dark King”

In the kingdom of Bounten, Queen Ava gives birth to a baby girl with white hair and pale blue eyes. Believing the baby is cursed, the king is left alone with his child for only a few minutes. When Ava’s midwife returns, the infant is dead. Was it a natural…

Joanna PoncavageJune 9, 2021

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

“EVE-0,” A Pandemic Thriller Set in the Amazon Jungle

Dr. Gabrielle Gale is an emergency room physician at a busy city hospital that’s become even busier these days. In the eight years since the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of other deadly threats have killed many more millions. On CNN, a map of the United States showing outbreaks of different…

Joanna PoncavageMay 11, 2021

Fiction

“Secrets of the Solarium” Has Food, Life, Love and the Secrets of Happiness

A mysterious woman named Abigail. An even more mysterious psychiatrist named Lucciano. Two lives hiding many secrets. In the early 1900s, Abigail boards a train in the Italian city of Turin, determined to start a new life. With little money and no prospects, she is befriended by a young couple…

Joanna PoncavageMay 7, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

“Garkain” Rewrites the Vampire Rulebook

After sending in her little test tube of saliva, Amelia, an orphan left at the door of a Texas hospital 25 years ago, gets the call she’s been waiting for all her life: a voice on the phone that says, “I’m your mother.” Garkain: Book One of the Uluru Legacy…

Joanna PoncavageApril 27, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

“Emi” Means Magic and Monsters and Giant Teddy Bears, Oh My!

Will her father ever come home? Our protagonist Emi clutches her well-worn teddy bear and anxiously paces while a thunderstorm rages outside. Accidently waking her drunken mother passed out in front of the television, the little girl dodges a flying wine bottle and runs back upstairs. A rope dangles from…

Joanna PoncavageApril 9, 2021

Business Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Old Solutions to New Problems: “Cyberjutsu,” the Ninja Approach to Cybersecurity

Our digital lives depend on cybersecurity. When hackers broke into the computer networks of Home Depot, Staples, Target and Equifax in recent years, customers became victims of identity theft, their credit card numbers stolen and their credit histories compromised. Today, even our national security is threatened. The SolarWinds software breach…

Joanna PoncavageApril 6, 2021

Fiction Romance

Twin Souls Must Save a Dying World in Dystopian Romance “Dawn of Atlantis”

The beautiful blue oceans surrounding Atlantis have turned a sickly gray-green color, littered with dead sea creatures. The fabled island is at the mercy of an evil empire mining the oceans to power secret doomsday weapons. To make matters worse, the inhabitants of Atlantis have been enslaved and secretly drugged…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 29, 2021

Fiction

“Journeyman:” An Epic Fantasy Quest and Unlikely Friendship

For a heavily armed mercenary, peacetime doesn’t pay. The barons, princes, kings and queens of the Twelve Nations have no need of warriors to wage wars or settle skirmishes. Journeyman, Robert M. Leonard’s first book in the Brotherhood of Freeswords fantasy series, is a well-told tale of adventure, magic, and…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 18, 2020

Fiction Thrillers

P.I. Navigates His Latest Investigation Without Sight in “Blind Vigil”

Still blind. Every morning for the last nine months, Rick Cahill has opened his eyes to total darkness. Shot in the face while solving the cold case murder of his wife, the private investigator now counts his steps from room to room and ponders what his next act will be.…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 1, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Big Little Secrets Set Hulu Ablaze with Premiere of “Little Fires Everywhere”

Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestselling novel, Little Fires Everywhere, starts with a house on fire. So does Hulu’s eight-episode series by the same name, which premieres today, March 18. The arsonist isn’t revealed until the ends of both, and in between are tangled webs of non-stop drama. Reese Witherspoon’s production company,…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 18, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America:” Alternative History Turned HBO Miniseries

Scheduled to debut today as an HBO miniseries, Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America is oddly and powerfully prescient, published, as it was, in 2004. The plot turns on how, instead of electing Franklin D. Roosevelt to a third term as president, America elects Charles A. Lindbergh, a hugely…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 16, 2020

BooksToScreen Young Adult

Defanged, “The Call of the Wild” Still Grips

When Jack London wrote The Call of the Wild, serialized in 1903 in The Saturday Evening Post, it made adventure story history. The short novel became an international sensation, and it’s never been out of print. It’s the story of a dog, and the man who loved him. London spent…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 28, 2020

BooksToScreen Thrillers

“The Rhythm Section” Doesn’t Miss a Beat With Revenge-Driven Superspy

In spy lingo, the rhythm section is the body’s heart rate and breath. Learn how to control these, and you control panic, a useful skill for would-be cloak-and-dagger candidates. The Rhythm Section is also the title of a 1999 thriller by Mark Burnell, now the basis of a new motion…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 14, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture Thrillers

As the Screw Turns: Henry James Classic Gets Another Twist

Published in 1898, the Henry James novella, The Turn of the Screw, has spawned dozens of dramatic interpretations, including movies, television films, an opera, a ballet and a Broadway play. The story of a young governess who arrives at a country estate to care for two orphans has always been…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 24, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction

Little Women’s Infinite Playlist

Young women of every generation, at some point, will stare at themselves in a mirror and ask: Who am I, who will I become? Their answers depend on their era, just as every generation that reads Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will come away with different interpretations. Lady Bird director…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 25, 2019

Nonfiction

A Nightmare of Bad Love “In the Dream House”

Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir, In the Dream House (Graywolf Press), describes her experience with the pain and anguish of a lesbian relationship gone horribly wrong, though at the time it seemed like true love. Author of a 2018 award-winning short story collection (Her Body and Other Parties, Graywolf Press),…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 6, 2019

Joanna Poncavage

An Empire’s Fate Falls Into Question in Medieval Fantasy “Sarana and the Dark King”

“EVE-0,” A Pandemic Thriller Set in the Amazon Jungle

“Secrets of the Solarium” Has Food, Life, Love and the Secrets of Happiness

“Garkain” Rewrites the Vampire Rulebook

“Emi” Means Magic and Monsters and Giant Teddy Bears, Oh My!

Old Solutions to New Problems: “Cyberjutsu,” the Ninja Approach to Cybersecurity

Twin Souls Must Save a Dying World in Dystopian Romance “Dawn of Atlantis”

“Journeyman:” An Epic Fantasy Quest and Unlikely Friendship

P.I. Navigates His Latest Investigation Without Sight in “Blind Vigil”

Big Little Secrets Set Hulu Ablaze with Premiere of “Little Fires Everywhere”

Philip Roth’s “The Plot Against America:” Alternative History Turned HBO Miniseries

Defanged, “The Call of the Wild” Still Grips

“The Rhythm Section” Doesn’t Miss a Beat With Revenge-Driven Superspy

As the Screw Turns: Henry James Classic Gets Another Twist

Little Women’s Infinite Playlist

A Nightmare of Bad Love “In the Dream House”

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