fantasy

The Magic Repair Shop will cast a spell on your middle-grade reader

Anyone who watched television in the 1980s remembers RIF’s PSA encouraging young people to read. The biggest hurdle to getting children to read is finding something that they actually want to read. There are many iterations of this quote, but the message is the same regardless of the attribution—if you…

Mea StewartDecember 9, 2014

Children's Books

Let’s Go “Around the World with Remy + Fox” Whenever We Want!

“Oh, the places you’ll go,” a wise doctor and author of children’s books once declared, “soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch.” While the Seuss classic is a means to discuss life’s ups and downs, young author Marissa Donapel…

BookTribMay 26, 2021

Children's Books

Ghouls, Gargoyles and Girl Power in “LillyBelle: A Damsel NOT in Distress”

In her debut book, LillyBelle: A Damsel NOT in Distress (Boyd’s Mill Press), author Joana Pastro weaves the heartwarming tale of LillyBelle, a student at Lady Frilly’s School for Damsels. LillyBelle takes classes in baking, music and manners — but it’s the most important lesson she has the most trouble…

Cameron KimballOctober 13, 2020

Children's Books

If All Else Fails, There’s a “Wizard for Hire”

Using the canned goods stockpiled by his parents for sustenance of the body and the boxes of books and tapes to enrich the mind, Ozzy raises himself in a small house hidden in the heart of the forest. His only companion is a sentient metal bird named Clark invented by…

Paige VigliaroloApril 8, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

Fighting Magic Fire with Magic Fire in the “Witches Protection Program”

What always struck me about the dark, cultish television series "True Blood" was how it portrayed a society in which vampires strutted around as a class onto themselves – thanks to a synthetic blood product -- interacting with humans in the normal fabric of things. That’s to say nothing of…

Jim AlkonJuly 16, 2019

Fiction

Urban Fantasy “How to Be a Badass Vigilante” Magically Thwarts LA Crime

Tight leather bodysuit? Check. Sleek getaway motorcycle? Check. Desire to thwart the plans of criminal masterminds and keep the city streets safe? Check, and check. Oh, if only fighting crime was as simple as that, but as readers will discover in Michael Anderle’s How to Be a Badass Vigilante: Book…

Chelsea CicconeFebruary 19, 2021

Fiction

These 15 Fantasy Novels by Female Authors are Electrifying the Genre

Fantasy is everywhere these days, and I’m not complaining. I’ve always loved reading about other worlds, with their kings and queens and dragons and epic romances. When I was younger, most of the fantasy authors I would see on the shelves were men. These days, I’m happy to see that…

Rachel CarterMay 27, 2016

BooksToScreen Fiction

The Other, Other George R.R. Martin Series Comes to Television: Wild Cards

Superheroes are clearly super hot right now. So is the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels, which is hot off its extremely well-received sixth season. “Hmm, if only there was a way to capitalize on the…

Katie HiresAugust 11, 2016

Fiction

War Looms in Ancient Ireland in “To the Waters and the Wild”

You don’t need to be familiar with the mystical history of Ireland to enjoy S.C. McGrath’s fairytale novel To the Waters and the Wild (Seanachie Press). You don’t need a glossary for the Gaelic place-names or curiously spelled nouns, although there is one on McGrath’s website. You only need the…

Sherri DaleyAugust 19, 2019

Fiction

Rory Surtain’s “Firefanged: Demon in Exile” Reveals an Action-Packed Fantasy Realm

In the realm of Colivar, there are demons that roam the mountains. There are lava-encrusted portals to Hell from which these demons crawl. And, of course, there are villagers in mortal danger who need brave hearts, men and women with courage and preternatural strength and skill, to hunt these demons…

Sherri DaleyFebruary 19, 2021

Fiction

Sam Hooker’s “Peril in the Old Country” Is The Perfect, Dark Comedy Escape

His latest book, Peril in the Old Country, draws the reader into a kaleidoscope of absurdist humor, stunning imagery, and a fantastical plot. Hooker is an expert when it comes to dark humor, and it clearly shows. In a land where rules are everything - also known as the Old…

BookTribJune 5, 2018

Fiction

Remembering Terry Pratchett: Literature’s most famous best-kept secret

His Discworld series spanned 40 books, a saga of wizards, witches, trolls, dwarves, gnomes, golems, monks, orangutan librarians and Death himself, who always spoke without quotes and in SMALL CAPITAL LETTERS. Pratchett was one of the best-selling adult novelists of the 1990s, and his books used humor and alternate realities…

Michael RuscoeMarch 13, 2015

Fiction

A Grand Adventure Through the Stars Beyond

In science fiction and fantasy, this object often has to be brought from point one location to another, whether it’s a Horcrux, the One Ring, or the Death Star plans. Relics of Andromeda (Gold Dragon Books), Jonathan Michael Erickson’s first installment in a planned sci-fi trilogy called “Songs of Ancients,”…

Jeff DaughertyApril 10, 2019

Fiction

Only Magic Can Save the World in “Chosen Ones”

One of my guilty literary pleasures is reading dystopian thrillers, so I was ecstatic to be one of the first to devour an advanced readers copy of Veronica’s Roth’s dark, twisty sci-fi thriller, Chosen Ones (HMH). I’ve been a Roth fan since her blockbuster Divergent trilogy, and honestly, I could…

Jodé MillmanApril 6, 2020

Fiction

Losing a Loved One to Supernatural Forces

When Brit Lunden created The Bulwark Anthology, she envisioned a series of bite-sized novelettes, each written by a different author, each with one common thread: their setting, the small, fictitious town of Bulwark, Georgia. Before handing over the reins to her writer friends, Lunden sets up the anthology series with…

BookTribApril 19, 2019

Fiction

“Land of Demons” Pushes the Limits of Classic Fantasy Novels

At the outset of Land of Demons: A New Age Dawns, the first book in an intended fantasy series by Zach Sabra, rangers Kyrun and Rogan embark on a tumultuous journey along the trails of Aethora in the world of Keldroarn. As they navigate the mossy terrain, the reader expects to…

Gabby TorrentiMarch 23, 2021

The Magic Repair Shop will cast a spell on your middle-grade reader

Let’s Go “Around the World with Remy + Fox” Whenever We Want!

Ghouls, Gargoyles and Girl Power in “LillyBelle: A Damsel NOT in Distress”

If All Else Fails, There’s a “Wizard for Hire”

Fighting Magic Fire with Magic Fire in the “Witches Protection Program”

Urban Fantasy “How to Be a Badass Vigilante” Magically Thwarts LA Crime

These 15 Fantasy Novels by Female Authors are Electrifying the Genre

The Other, Other George R.R. Martin Series Comes to Television: Wild Cards

War Looms in Ancient Ireland in “To the Waters and the Wild”

Rory Surtain’s “Firefanged: Demon in Exile” Reveals an Action-Packed Fantasy Realm

Sam Hooker’s “Peril in the Old Country” Is The Perfect, Dark Comedy Escape

Remembering Terry Pratchett: Literature’s most famous best-kept secret

A Grand Adventure Through the Stars Beyond

Only Magic Can Save the World in “Chosen Ones”

Losing a Loved One to Supernatural Forces

“Land of Demons” Pushes the Limits of Classic Fantasy Novels

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