A special illustrated edition of the AMERICAN GODS novella from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman.  Baldur 'Shadow' Moon is on his way back to America, but in this story he's only made it as far as the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. Here he becomes involved with a …

The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.  From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out…

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama   Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamilton is as revolutionary as its subject, the poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R…

Today, I validated my novel and this is what I got... I'm very excited to have completed another novel during NaNoWriMo . The story I ended up writing is one that had been bubbling inside my head for a few months and even though I knew the direction it was going to take a…

The Gathering by Dan Poblocki My rating: 5 of 5 stars My daughter picked this up for me from the library the other day. It's a book that caught my eye because it looks so spooky. And since I finished writing my own creepy NaNoWriMo story on Friday, I thought this might be …