Why Every Potter Fan Must Read Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
With the announcement, in 2013, that J.K. Rowling would be co-penning an eighth installment in the internationally beloved Harry Potter…
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7 Hilarious Gift Books by Funny Women
Coming as they do at the end of the year, the holidays are as much a time of joy and…
7 Fascinating and Funny Female Entertainers
Celebs: They’re just like us! Except, not really! You don’t become a celebrity without accumulating some pretty great stories—about your humble pre-celebrity…
The Saga of Recluce: Not a Series? by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Tor Fantasy Firsts is a yearlong celebration of the first books in fantasy series from the biggest publisher in genre. Every…
A Guest Post from Royally Screwed Author Emma Chase
Emma Chase is known for writing steamy, compulsively readable contemporary romance novels (including her Tangled series and her Legal Briefs series), but her newest novel, Royally…
The 14 Most Brazen Barbarians in Fantasy
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Gift the Peculiar World of Miss Peregrine this Holiday Season
Over the past few years, we’ve marveled at the strange new world of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, gasped at…
A Guide to Surviving High School in 7 YA Novels
Fiction teaches us lots of things we might never need to use: how to win the Hunger Games, how to react…
Collaborating, Revising, and Hacking: An Interview with E. C. Myers
It’s a common enough story, but it breaks the hearts of writer types: someone pours his soul into writing a screenplay.…
“Show Up to Whatever You’re Invited to”: An Interview with Trish Cook
For every movie made, there are hundreds—maybe thousands—of movies that didn’t get made. Great screenplays pile up on laptops and in files,…
Guest Post: All Different Kinds of Strong, by Gail Z. Martin
This is not another blog post about writing strong female characters. It’s about writing characters of any gender who show…
Author Katy Evans Shares 4 Romance Writing Tropes That Never Go Out of Style
The author of the hugely popular and addictive REAL and Manwhore series, Katy Evans knows romance! Her newest novel, Ladies Man, continues the Manwhore series with the…
J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Screenplay Is Coming on November 18
As all good Harry Potter lovers know, Scholastic is publishing the screenplay of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them on November 18, the day…
5 Must-Reads for Jane Austen Fans
Jane Austen has been the gift that keeps on giving—for authors, movie producers, and Colin Firth fans—for ages now. From modern…
Meet the Baddest Girls in Fiction
Whether they’re in our books, our movies, or our dreams, we love strong, independent, take-no-prisoners women who know what they…
Great Books on the Big Screen
Winter is the perfect time to hit the movies: the theater provides respite from the cold, it’s the perfect family…
Fall Adaptations We Can’t Wait to See
Fall is the most wonderful time of the year for movie buffs, as this is the season when studios release the…