By JJ: To assist Hugo nominators, listed below are the series believed to be eligible as of this writing for the 2019 Best Series Hugo next year *†. Each series name is followed by the main author name(s) and the … Continue reading
The Ursula K. Le Guin Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book By Chris M. Barkley: On the evening of March 6, 2018, I wrote the following, a boldly ambiguous press release for File770.com about re-naming the Young Adult Book … Continue reading
(1) SAFE AT HOME. Adweek tells about an Incredibles 2 movie product tie-in: “Why The Incredibles Needed an ADT Home Security System”. Even superheroes need a good home security system, says a fun new ad from ADT and Disney, themed … Continue reading
(1) NUMBERS RAMPED UP: WHY? Jason Sanford contends “Questionable sales surround Writers of the Future anthologies”. He analyzes Writers of the Future anthology sales over the years as reported by Bookscan. Note: This market analysis is available free to the … Continue reading
By Chris M. Barkley “When the mind is free, magic happens.” — Young Adult author C.G. Rousing “Harry Potter” blew the roof off of children’s literature. But that doesn’t mean the work is done — for YA authors, it just means more … Continue reading
(1) LEFT AT THE ALTER. Damien Walter, never easy to please anyway, declares “Altered Carbon was always doomed”. Imagine somebody wrote a novel about the cat and the fiddle, and the cow that jumped over the moon. In fact, imagine … Continue reading
(1) WASHINGTONIAN WOMBAT. The Washington Post’s Mary Quattlebaum profiles Ursula Vernon, whose comic five-volume Hamster Princess series retells “fairy tales with a strong female hero,” in “Ursula Vernon elevates a rodent to royalty”. The latest, Whiskerella, retells Cinderella but with … Continue reading
(1) COLLATERAL DAMAGE. This week’s terrorist bombing in the U.K. has quashed Wonder Woman’s London premiere. Warner Bros. has canceled its Wonder Woman premiere in London, following Monday’s terrorist attack following an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. “Our … Continue reading
The Young Adult (Hugo) Award: A Minority Report By Chris M. Barkley: Author’s Note: Of all the columns I have written so far, the following was the hardest and took the longest period to write. From my own, subjective viewpoint, … Continue reading
An Incredibly Modest Set of Proposals to the Royal Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize for Literature By Chris M. Barkley: Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it … Continue reading