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Exclusive Interview – Becky Albertalli, author of Yes No Maybe So and Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda

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Alec Frazier chats with Becky Albertalli… Recently, we met with young adult author Becky Albertalli as she was on tour to promote her new book, Yes No Maybe So. She agreed to an interview with us, which follows. Enjoy! How did you get involved with writing? When you were in middle school, high school, college, […]

Book Review – The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames

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Michelle Herbert reviews The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames… The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna follows the life of Stella Fortuna and her family through years of near-death experiences, happiness, sadness and not being able to reach your full potential. This is a book about family and hard times, […]

Meet the Jedi Knights of Star Wars: The High Republic

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Back in February, Lucasfilm announced Star Wars: The High Republic, a new publishing initiative featuring books and comics set some 200 years prior to the events of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and now we’ve got our first details on some of the Jedi Knights and Jedi Masters who inhabit this previously-unexplored […]

Exclusive Interview – Author Mike Fury on penning new book, Life of Action II, featuring Zoë Bell, Frank Grillo, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Gareth Evans & more

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Mike Fury discusses his new book Life of Action II… Following his 2015 book Life of Action: Interviews with the Men and Women of Action Cinema, Mike Fury has penned a second book, chatting in-depth with a brand-new cast of subjects. Adding to his writing portfolio, Fury has worked in the stunt department on movies […]

Book Review – M by Samm Deighan

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews M by Samm Deighan… Fritz Lang’s M is a horror film. There are other genres that would happily claim M as one of their own, but they’re not the reason the film has a Devil’s Advocates monograph. Devil’s Advocates is a series that focuses on horror movies from Auteur Publishing. Other films […]

Exclusive Interview – William Shaw on Doctor Who: The Rings of Akhaten, the surprising similarities between Neil Cross & Chris Chibnall, and more (Part Two)

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Alex Moreland interviews William Shaw about The Rings of Akhaten, the wider work of its writer Neil Cross, and more… I recently sat down with William Shaw – a writer and blogger originally from Sheffield, now based in London, whose work has appeared in Star*Line, Space & Time, The Martian Wave, The Oxford Culture Review, […]

Book Review – The Plague Stones by James Brogden

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Michelle Herbert reviews The Plague Stones by James Brogden… The Plague Stones is a haunting story with a dark history, that reaches into the class divisions of the present day. The story switches between different characters’ perspectives, although the main focus is on Trish and her family, and there is a large cast of characters […]

Titan to publish Predator: If It Bleeds anthology

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Titan Books has announced the upcoming release of Predator: If It Bleeds, a new anthology book edited by Hugo Award-nominated author Bryan Thomas, which features sixteen brand new, never before seen stories featuring the Predators throughout space and time. SEE ALSO: Order via Amazon US or Amazon UK Over the centuries, extraterrestrial hunters of the […]

Book Review – Speccy Nation Vol. 2 “The Digital Decade”

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Villordsutch reviews Speccy Nation Vol.2 “The Digital Decade”… The ZX Spectrum and myself go back a long way.  Anyone who has stumbled across any homebrew gaming reviews or interviews of mine will see that I have an affinity with this classic, rather fantastic, Great British home computer and when the ability comes around to review something else […]