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Genre Kryptonite: Hard Sci-Fi, The Ultimate “Howdunit”

This is a guest post by Mike Sowden. Mike is an English travel writer and storytelling consultant, rather loosely based in ...

Genre Kryptonite: Novels by Poets

This is a guest post from Sean Bell. Sean s a Scots-Irish-Armenian writer based in Edinburgh. His journalism has been published ...

Lachrymose Barbarians, or Manly Books That Make Manly Men Cry Like Babies?

This is a guest post from Jonathan Streeter. Jonathan is a husband, the father of three young children, and an English ...

Genre Kryptonite: LGBT Young Adult Novels

This is a guest post by Jill Guccini. Jill is an educator and writer living in Portland, Oregon with her wife, ...

A Pi Day Reading List

This is a guest post from Sarah Rettger. Sarah spends her nights selling books (in all formats) at an independent bookstore ...

A Literary Tour of Concord, Massachusetts

Kate Scott blogs about books at ParchmentGirl.com and is a reviewer for The Vessel Project. Follow her on Twitter @ParchmentGirl37. There are a ...

Genre Kryptonite: Ruritanian Romances

This is a guest post from Tasha Brandstatter. Tasha is an art historian and freelance writer who manages way too many ...

I Read the Book…Or Did I?

This is a guest post from Andrew Shaffer. Andrew is the author of “Literary Rogues,” “Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love,” ...

How to Sell Books Like Charles Dickens: “Yesterday’s Gone” and the Kindle Revolution

This is a guest post by Mike Sowden. Mike is an English travel writer and storytelling consultant, rather loosely based in ...

Boy vs. Girl: VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE

This is a guest post by Casey Peterson and Marisa Atkinson.  Casey is a publishing assistant at Graywolf Press in Minneapolis, ...