Blackbirds

By now. you’ve probably finished your Netflix Luke Cage binge. Undoubtedly you feel bereft, adrift, and without anything new to fill your brainspace. If so, then well, have I got a list for you, friend: this weekend, it’s time to hunker down and binge read the absolute best ongoing urban fantasy series. It’s a fascinating, sometimes misunderstood genre. It mostly involves paranormal […]

It’s been a minute since we’ve had a chance to spend time with Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black, the cigarette-smoking, liquor-swilling, foul-mouthed avatar of how you and everyone you know is going to die. Across three earlier books, her ability to see the death of whoever she touches has gotten her in more trouble than a lobster in boiling water. […]

Chuck Wendig is, by this point, a genre author who needs no introduction. He’s put his signature, staccato-prose stamp on everything from near-future techno thrillers to Star Wars tie-in novels, but we’ve also been partial to his twisted take on urban fantasy horror with the Miriam Black series, about a woman with the power to […]

At this time of year, it seems everyone is looking for a good scare, but I love horror year-round. Still, the “rules” of horror, as it were, are often a challenge for me. Too frequently in horror stories, women are cast as the victims—those in need of rescuing, those threatened by murderers, those who suffer […]