Cyberpunk and the Failed Vision of Virtual Reality
Cyberpunk is a genre that never quite made it in the mainstream. After its brief day in the sun in the 80s, it fell by the wayside and was eclipsed […]
Cyberpunk is a genre that never quite made it in the mainstream. After its brief day in the sun in the 80s, it fell by the wayside and was eclipsed […]
In 1905, pioneering child psychologist G. Stanley Hall made the following statement in response to the growing trend of girls reading the budding genre of kids’ adventure novels: The danger […]
The new Wonder Woman trailer dropped this week, bringing us that much closer to the first movie out of this generation of superhero film to star a woman. Meanwhile, despite […]
I’m delighted to announce that the Kickstarter campaign to fund Dates 2 is launching today! Dates is a fabulous historical fiction anthology of comics, art, and short stories featuring queer […]
At long last, I’m delighted to present the cover of AMONG THE RED STARS. The HarperTeen crew did such a beautiful job with this and I’m delighted with how the […]
Today is the release day for Silver Stars, the sequel to Front Lines, Michael Grant’s alternate history where women served in World War II. I’ve already taken this series to […]
Ever since those first stills of his character design, Jared Leto’s Joker has left many of us scratching our heads, trying to figure out why the portrayal seems so wrong. […]
Many people in the YA community were less than enthused when the Locus Awards announced their 2016 finalists. The YA finalists were all men, one of whom was nominated twice, […]
Our attitude toward Nazis is changing, and not for the better. Ever since World War II, Nazis have occupied a unique niche as the West’s universal standard for evil, and […]
An epistolary novel, for those who don’t know, is a novel told through documents written by the characters, usually letters, but sometimes also journal entries, newspaper articles, emails, postcards, notes […]