Jenn Northington

Jenn Northington has worked in the publishing industry wearing various hats since 2004, including bookseller and events director, and is currently Director of Editorial Operations at Riot New Media Group. You can hear her on the SFF Yeah! podcast nerding out about sci-fi and fantasy. When she’s not working, she’s most likely gardening, running, or (obviously) reading. Find her on Tumblr at jennIRL and Instagram at iamjennIRL.

Panels on Panels: Hexed #4

In Panels on Panels, we tackle the most basic and complicated part of comics storytelling. Too often, comics criticism and ...

Book Riot Live in 3 … 2 …

As you may have heard, Book Riot is throwing its first ever reader convention on November 7 and 8, here ...

The 6 Cuddliest Comics Plushies (Both Real and Imagined)

Growing up, my favorite stuffed animal was Max, from The Little Mermaid:   I gave him horrifying haircuts, blamed him ...

Forget #SpeakBeautiful, Speak Your Mind: A Reading List

Dove’s #SpeakBeautiful campaign was one of the first things I saw online Tuesday morning. I can see how this all ...

Story Tropes Bingo for (Almost) Every Genre

If you could manifest my love/hate relationship with story tropes and plot devices in concrete form, it turns out it ...

The Best of KamalaCon 2015

From February 1 to February 6, the Kamala Korps (that’s fans of Ms. Marvel to the uninitiated) celebrated the first ...

Lost in Adaptation: Book Characters Who Never Made It to the Screen

It’s been more than a decade since I read Vonda McIntyre’s The Moon and the Sun but as soon as ...

Ladies in Spaaaaace: Feminism in Bitch Planet and ODY-C

If you’ve been following House DeFraction (as Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction are affectionately and collectively known), you’ve probably ...

Cooking with Kelly Link: A Lunchtime Review of GET IN TROUBLE

Ingredients: olive oil, coconut oil, or vegetable oil 1 copy of Get in Trouble by Kelly Link 1 large sweet ...

What the Junk: An Investigation of My Lumberjanes Obsession

What would possess a 31-year-old woman to sew Lumberjanes badges onto her favorite hoodie (stabbing herself with a needle several ...