Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.

Redesign the Cover of FAHRENHEIT 451 to Get Published and Win $1,500

Ray Bradbury’s classic (and my favorite book ever) turns 60 next year. To celebrate, the awesome folks at Simon & Schuster ...

If 90s Pop/Rock Lyrics Were Book Blurbs, Vol. 2

Grab your Hypercolor t-shirt, dial into Pop-Up Video, and hop back into the Wayback Machine for another adventure in Fun ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: September 4, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

Riot Recommendation: Small Towns with Big Secrets

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Season of the Witch by Arni Thorarinsson.  When the editors at Reykjavik-based The ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Book Trailers, August 26-31, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

Beyond Bourne: A Spy Thriller Reading List

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Colonel’s Mistake by Dan Mayland. Mark Sava, former CIA station chief of Azerbaijan, lives ...

There’s Something About Gillian Flynn (or, When There’s More to Genre Than Meets the Eye)

When Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl left me gasping for more earlier this summer, I plowed through her backlist over a ...

Happy 215th Birthday, Mary Shelley!

The Frankenstein author was born on this day in 1797 and continues to be fierce as all get-out.

13 Terrific Bookish T-Shirts

Because kids shouldn’t get to have all the back-to-school fall wardrobe-improving fun, and one can only derive so much perverse ...

Cover Face-Off: THE STRANGER’S CHILD by Alan Hollinghurst

Secrets. Haunting sensuality. Exquisite lyricism. The lingering power of desire. All of this language appears in the publisher’s description of ...