Book Review: THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD by Gwendolyn Kiste

Cover of The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste. Features a person standing abovfe a lake that reflects two people, at sunset or sunrise.

The Haunting of Velkwood is an interesting take on the haunted house trope, one that blurs the lines between who are the living and who are the ghosts and expands the supernatural milieu from a building or property to an entire community block.

Book Review: TWICE LIVED by Joma West

Cover of Twice Lived by Joma West, featuring half a yellow flower flecked with red, joined to half a red flower. Cover design by Fort; Photo © Getty

“… (T)he story of Twice Lived rests on readers’ empathic connection with its major characters and the bittersweet nature of life: the haphazard fortunes it throws upon us, or the random situations it thrusts us into, often without control, powerless.”

Book Review: THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION by Ray Nayler

Cover of The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler, featuring the skull and huge, curving tusks of an elephant, mammoth or mastodon.

It touches on big issues, features biological speculation that is near and dear to me, but it does all this without skimping on character-driven aspects and precise language that evokes empathy and reflection.

Podcast Boost: IMAGINING TOMORROW with Emma Newman

Image: Podcast graphic for Imagining Tomorrow with Emma Newman (Friends of the Earth)

Award-winning podcaster and author Emma Newman has teamed up with the London-based Friends of the Earth grassroots environmental campaigning community to produce a new podcast series entitled Imagining Tomorrow.

Book Review: TRIANGULUM by Subodhana Wijeyeratne

Cover of Triangulum by Subodhana Wijeyeratne, depicting a spaceship that looks like an angry monster, firing weapons.

It’s a cerebral space opera set on a large scale with multiple protagonists and antagonists vying for control. Sometimes, the lines between protagonist and antagonist can become blurred, as can the nature of their moralities.