In Case You Missed It Review: Violet by Scott Thomas
“Something is not quite right.” This is a phrase I used for nearly 25 years teaching creative writing to students...
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LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 22: You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo
We wrap up this year's very successful holiday giveaway with a favorite of the site, the immensely talented Cat Rambo....
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 21: THE GILDED ONES by Namina Forna
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 20: THE REALM BREAKER SERIES by Victoria Aveyard
Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning new fantasy series from Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 19: CITY OF RUIN by Charissa Weaks
The night the Prince of the East razed her village, Raina Bloodgood’s life changed forever. Forced into someone else’s war—and...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 18: THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER by Lucy Score
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 17: EMMA OF 83RD STREET by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
In this witty and romantic debut novel, Jane Austen’s Emma meets the misadventures of Manhattan’s modern dating scene as two lifelong friends...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 16: THE CHRISTMAS MURDER GAME by Alexandra Benedict
Twelve clues. Twelve keys. Twelve days of Christmas. But how many will die before Twelfth Night? Agatha Christie meets Clue...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 15: TIME SALVAGER by Wesley Chu
Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has spread into the outer solar system to survive. Time travel holds...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 14: THE HUNGER OF THE GODS by John Gwynne
Packed with myth, magic, and bloody vengeance, John Gwynne's "masterfully crafted, brutally compelling, Norse-inspired epic" (Anthony Ryan) continues in The Hunger...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 13: THE LAST PARTY by Clare Mackintosh
At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. It's the party to end all...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 12: WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS by Kelly Barnhill
Alex Green is a young girl in a world much like ours, except for its most seminal event: the Mass...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 11: THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY by Sulari Gentill
Ned Kelly award winning author Sulari Gentill sets this mystery-within-a-mystery in motion with a deceptively simple, Dear Hannah, What are you...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 10: THE VIOLENCE by Delilah S. Dawson
They call it The Violence: a strange epidemic that causes the infected to experience sudden bursts of animalistic rage, with no provocation and no...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 9: RELUCTANT IMMORTALS by Gwendolyn Kiste
For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 8: THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB by Robert Thorogood
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 7: Uncanny Times by Laura Anne Gilman
Huntsmen, according to the Church, were damned, their blood unclean, unholy. Yet for Rosemary and Aaron Harker the Church was...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 6: Lisa Edmond’s Heart of Malice Bundle
The first time Moses Murphy’s granddaughter killed on his orders, she was six years old. For twenty years, she was...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 5: IT ENDS AT MIDNIGHT by Harriet Tyce
It's New Year's Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh's best postcodes. It's...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 4: THE WITCH COLLECTOR by Charissa Weaks
Every harvest moon, the Witch Collector rides into our valley and leads one of us to the home of the...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 3: THE NIGHT AND ITS MOON by Piper CJ
Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that’s what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 2: THE ART OF PROPHECY by Wesley Chu
An epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic—the story of a spoiled hero, an exacting grandmaster, and an immortal...
LitStack’s Holiday Giveaway Day 1: THESE HOLLOW VOWS by Lexi Ryan
Welcome back, LitStackers, to another holiday giveaway extravaganza! This month we've teamed up with some of our favorite authors to...
LitStack Featured Author Interview: Menna van Praag
We've spent a bit of the month talking about Menna van Praag's phenomenal Sisters Grimm series. Today, we conclude our...
Book Launch: The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2022
The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2022by John Joseph Adams; Rebecca RoanhorseMariner Books Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author...
Book Launch: Snow White and Other Grimms’ Fairy Tales (MinaLima Edition)
Another gorgeous MinaLima title launched today, this one exploring Snow White and other Grimm fairy tales in exquisite detail. Like...
LitStack Interview and Giveaway: F. Fox North
We continue our coverage of versatile author F. Fox North by discussing their recent indie title THE CHAOS AGENTS, their...
Autumn Eats: Great Fandom Cookbooks
Have you ever wondered what delicious delights Claire cooked up for Jamie in Outlander? What about those magical meals Molly...
Book Launch| The Magic of MinaLima: Celebrating the Graphic Design Studio Behind the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts Films
Congratulations to Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, the design duo, behind the graphic style of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films on their twenty-year collaboration with The Magic of MinaLima: Celebrating the Graphic Design Studio Behind the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts Films (Harper Design;...
Books To Get You in the Halloween Spirit
The Spooky Season It's that time of year when ghosts and goblins lurk from beneath every store shelf and our...
LitStack Review: The Chaos Agents
Author: F. Fox North Title: The Chaos Agents (Baron & Eddie Book 1) Summary: Told in four inter-connecting narratives from...
Book Launch: The River of Silver by S. A. Chakraborty
The River of Silver—now available in print and eBook From the Locus and World Fantasy-nominated author of the acclaimed Daevabad...
Now Available| THE GREAT BOOK OF KING ARTHUR by John Matthews
Available now, from leading Arthurian authority John Matthews and Tolkien illustrator John Howe, comes the definitive collection of stories about...
Litstack Recs | We the Animals & Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Called "a dark jewel of a book," by Michael Cunningham, We the Animals, the 2011 debut novel by Justin Torres,...
Coming to the Stacks
Ever wonder what you've got to look forward to? Has your favorite author inked a deal to bring their books...
The Most Common Phrases in ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ and ‘Twilight’
From Flavorwire: Ben Blatt of Slate put together a great post on the adjectives, adverbs, and sentences that popped up...
Litstack Recs| How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One & We Were Dreamers
For writers and readers, the sentence is the coin of the realm, the catch that keeps a reader securely in...
Litstack Recs | The Wrong End of the Telescope & Company Town
The Wrong End of the Telescope: a novel by Rabih Alameddine Rabih Alameddine’s sixth book, which earlier this year won...
Litstack Recs | Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden & The Last Wish – Introducing the Witcher
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
Featured Author Review: Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
This week we continue our celebration of our August Featured Author, Wesley Chu with a review of THE RISE OF...
Litstack Recs| The Love of a Good Woman & The Red
The Love of a Good Woman, stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners skilled as Alice Munro,...
Featured Author Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Welcome, LitStackers, to a new month and our old favorite, the Featured Author segment. This month, we're celebrating the works...
2022 Locus Awards Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Locus Awards, announced on Saturday during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend. MCed by...
Book Launch and Excerpt: Trouble With the Cursed by Kim Harrison
ABOUT TROUBLE WITH THE CURSED Congratulations to Kim Harrison on the launch of the latest title in her Hollows series, Trouble...
