S. Zainab Williams

S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes fantasy and horror, and is currently clutching a manuscript while groping in the dark. Find her on Twitter: @szainabwilliams.

Romance In Fantasy–Over It!

Love and the search for that special someone is the great quest of many. Love has successfully driven a big ...

Party Girl’s Guide to Library Science

Like unicorns and jackelopes, librarians are mythical creatures to the reader. I (perhaps more than I should admit) have only ...

Literary Tourism: San Francisco

I’m an Angeleno but I was born in Berkeley. Northern California is an old but distant friend with whom I ...

Essential Items for the Coziest Reading Experience

Remember hunkering down for a good read as a kid? Or even now? Fluffing up the nest, pouring yourself a ...

Back This Kickstarter: A Re-Imagined Shakespeare Collection

Rock Paper Books, a small publisher that strives to up the appeal of literary classics by giving them new cover ...

5 Books to Watch for in November

November is the month for readers and you’ll have plenty of options for new books to bundle up with in ...

Reclaim Lost Books or Move On?

It’s fall, which means I’m in mourning. More than any season, autumn drives me to my books. It’s the sudden, ...

Book Recommendations: Required Reading for Goths

I hope you had a good laugh at that title. As we all know, the books you read don’t make ...

A Reader on Being Black

The post you’re reading is part of Book Riot’s observance of #BlackOutDay. We are turning our attention fully to issues ...

The Curse That is Reading Amnesia

Standing in front of my bookshelf I gazed at the cracked spines squeezed together — the backs of the precious ...