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Emily Wenstrom

By day, Emily Wenstrom is a content marketing specialist. By early-early morning, she is E. J. Wenstorm, an award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author whose debut novel Mud was named 2016 Book of the Year by the Florida Writers Association.. Her Chronicles of the Third Realm War series includes Mud (#1), Tides (#2), Rain (#0), and more to come. Follow her on Twitter @ejwenstrom.

5 Incredible Fictional Characters With ADHD (+4 Who Are Undiagnosed But Also Totally Have It)

Get to know these awesome fictional characters with ADHD, plus four more who likely have it but aren't diagnosed.

20 Easy Bookish Halloween Costumes for Kids and Adults

If Halloween snuck up on you and you need a quick fix to find a great Halloween costume, try out these easy book character costumes!

How to Enter a Flow State While Reading

How do we enter into flow while reading? Let's explore the benefits, elements, and ways to tap into it.

Hopepunk Featuring Creative Solutions to the Climate Crisis

Sci-fi authors have dedicated full subgenres to exploring more positive versions of our possible future worlds. Enter hopepunk.

How to Find a Book Using a Vague Description

This is how to find a book using a vague description, general idea of what happened, or even if you just remember a few themes.

6 Speculative Novels Full of Ennui

A lot of SFF is full of high stakes and wild adventures. Read these moody, speculative novels if you're more in the mood for ennui.

6 Books to Read if You Love YOUNGER

Younger fans, pick up these read-alikes, including The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang.

Dark Fiction in Young Adult Literature: The Horror of Coming of Age

These dark YA books examine that reckoning with the darkness within society, others, and ourselves that we experience in our teen years, including Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake.

NFTs for Books: How This Emerging Tech Can Reward Authors & Readers

What do NFTs have to do with books? The implications for the publishing industry with NFTs for books could be game-changing. Here's how.

An Introduction to The Solarpunk Genre

While a great deal of sci-fi involves gloom, doom and cynicism about humanity’s fate, there are bright spots of optimism. Meet solarpunk, including titles like Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin.