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    Review of Finding Joy by Anika Toro

    There is something quietly radical about Anika Toro’s Finding Joy — a mixed media art book that asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when you strip away everything but the essential? In a cultural moment when so much feels overwhelming, chaotic, and beyond our control, this book arrives as both a creative manifesto and […] More

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    R.K. Harrington’s Kindred Schemes Playlist

    by R.K. Harrington A playlist can help a writer get in the zone and feel inspired; not to mention, playlists are just downright fun! When I was putting this list together for my debut novel Kindred Schemes, I could not settle on if I should provide a playlist that helped me write the book, or […] More

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    Review of anOther Nemesis by Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Eugen Bacon and Maxwell I. Gold

    by Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD anOther Nemesis, the symphonic collaboration of four outstanding poets, is a poetry collection with deep, unvarnished insights into various aspects of humankind’s self-destructive nature. It is divided into four main sections: I. The Colonizers, II. Primal Sources, III. Nameless Others, and IV. Crooked Ontologies. Each section has 3–5 poems written […] More

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    Kathe Koja shares her SKIN playlist

    By Kathe Koja SKIN is a novel that loves sound: the wrench and clang of metal, the hiss of water hitting iron, the murmurs and shrieks of an audience, the whisper of blood on the knife. So of course it needs a suitable playlist. Inspired by a reader’s question during the Meerkat Press launch, here’s […] More

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    The Star Bound Playlist

    By Bruce McCandless III Emily Carney and I wrote our book Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything In Between, with the aim of creating a space history for the rest of us. No complicated equations. No technospeak or rocket-talk. We focus instead on […] More

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    Playlist for Dr. Z and Matty Take Telegraph

    By Ari Rosenschein I began writing Dr. Z and Matty Take Telegraph in the dank, dark depths of November 2020 in Seattle, when the pandemic was in full swing, and no one knew what our collective future would hold. The thought of creating a book set anywhere near the current moment was abhorrent. Masks, temperature checks, Zoom […] More

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    Playlist for The Raek Riders Series

    by Melanie K. Moschella When writing my debut series I listened to the same playlist on repeat, and I think that a lot of the emotion in the songs made it into my books. If you can’t tell, I love indie music! It’s understated, heartfelt, and full of the aching tension every good Romantasy book […] More

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    Playlist for The Adventures of the Flash Gang

    by Sandra Waugh and Melanie Murray Downing Our middle-grade trilogy began as a lark—two authors in a writers group decided to co-author the sort of grand adventure they loved as children. The story needed a quirky, memorable, lovable heroine and an unlikely hero—not strong or confident or an overtly natural leader. Extra points if they […] More

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    Playlist for Unsuited

    By Erin Carrougher In the heart of the Pacific Northwest lies Augland 54, a lavish theme park that serves as a playground for the privileged, and a prison for the less fortunate. The Suits indulge in the luxury of choosing their physical forms and living out their wildest fantasies. Meanwhile, the Suitless are confined to […] More

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