January 2018 – Slushpile

Downing book deal announced

By Scott McKenzie January 30, 2018 In Deals, News 0 No tags 20

After posting yesterday about hard rock books, I saw an announcement about yet another new release. According to Blabbermouth,

Just can’t stop the hard rock book train

By Scott McKenzie January 29, 2018 In Deals 0 No tags 23

There once was a time when book and magazine editors proudly said, “Metalheads don’t read.” But we now know that to embarrassingly incorrect as books by hard rock musicians continue to appear,

How do you get rid of books?

By Scott McKenzie January 24, 2018 In General 1 No tags 25

Most book lovers confront the possibility of being crushed by their libraries at some point or another. Depending on your space and your finances,

Wolff teases easter egg in megaselling book

By Scott McKenzie January 23, 2018 In News 0 No tags 26

As if Michael Wolff hadn’t already made enough money off Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,

Vance will not run for Senate

By Scott McKenzie January 22, 2018 In General, News 0 No tags 26

On Friday, multiple outlets reported that author J.D. Vance had announced that he would not run for Senate in Ohio.

A landslide of Lansdale advice

By Scott McKenzie January 15, 2018 In Writing & Submitting Tips 0 No tags 29

Author Joe R. Lansdale got 2018 off to a rousing start with a landslide of writing advice on his social media pages.

The Ice Wagon’s Wheels Come Off: Mavis Gallant and Sadia Shepard in The New Yorker

By Heather Quinlan January 9, 2018February 2, 2018 In News 9 Foreign Returned, Francine Prose 29

Yesterday I learned that an short story featured in the January 8, 2018 issue of The New Yorker—“Foreign-Returned” by Sadia Shepard—bore a more than casual resemblance to the late Mavis Gallant’s story,

So what’s Behind the Attic Wall?

By Heather Quinlan January 3, 2018 In Book Reviews, Fiction 0 Behind the Attic Wall, Syvia Cassedy 30

Continuing my reviews of books with the word “Attic” in the title is “Behind the Attic Wall,” a YA novel that could not be more different from “Flowers in the Attic,” but at the same time left such an impression on me that for years I considered it one of my favorites,