Check out our top 15 overall bestselling books of 2020! We find it so interesting that most are backlist titles (versus books that were released in 2020). This includes in-store and online sales. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin …

2020 Bestsellers & January New Releases Read more »

  Wherein I discuss book industry news, pair a book with a board game in Tables & Fables, discuss our book of the month, The Prince and the Dressmaker, and interview two of the authors on our slate to be published. …

Novel Ideas #83: A Smorgasbord of Authors Read more »

Wherein I get overly excited about new Stranger Things books, discuss our best selling books of the year thus far, gush about Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, and interview Lania Knight, author of the sci-fi novel Remnant. Like our …

Novel Ideas #82: Stranger Things Have Happened Read more »

Wherein I discuss how to know that you suck when writing in a new segment titled “Write Right,” discuss the pros and cons of our book of the month, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover by Michael Andreasen, bring you …

Novel Ideas #81: Know That You Suck Read more »

As a symptom of owning a bookstore, I get asked often about what I’m currently reading. As a response to that, I thought I’d start a bi-monthly blog post listing the books I’ve read in the past month and brief …

Monthly Reads: March & April Read more »

Wherein I shamelessly promote our new Goodreads discussion group, get VERY excited about new Sandman comics, rave about some excellent SFF books written by women of color, make a pretty bad joke about Octavia Butler’s Fledgling, and talk New Orleans Poetry Festival with …

Novel Ideas #79: Once Bitten Read more »

  As you’ve seen in our Best Books of 2017 post and heard on the podcast, Charlie Jane Anders wrote my favorite book I read last year, All the Birds in the Sky, so of course I had to read this short story …

Book Review: Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders Read more »

As a symptom of owning a bookstore, I get asked often about what I’m currently reading. As a response to that, I thought I’d start a bimonthly blog post listing the books I’ve read in the past month and brief …

Monthly Reads: January & February Read more »

  Ernest Cline’s Armada is one of the most anticipated science fiction novels of this year after his popular Ready Player One charmed nerds and geeks everywhere after being re-released in 2014. I was able to get an advance copy of Armada from Cline himself …

Ernest Cline’s Armada Delivers on Action; Not On Originality Read more »