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[Editor’s Note: This piece comes to us from the Gather Round the Campfire panel during WonderCon 2018 from Bleeding Cool contributor Dana Han-Klein.] Throw a bunch of fantasy writers in a room and what do you get? Philosophy, minimal practicality, and some great zingers. WonderCon 2018 special guest Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Kingkiller Chronicle series, was joined […]

I love Ernie Cline’s book “Ready Player One”, first and foremost you should know that before reading further.  It meant something special to me the first day I read (and finished, because I seriously couldn’t put the damn thing down) it, and it’s more so now I think.  If you didn’t appriciate the novel for what […]

It looks like the next new Bond, James Bond story we’ll be getting won’t be on film, but rather a good old fashioned novel.  Author Anthony Horowitz is apparently working on a prequel novel to the first Ian Fleming Bond story, “Casino Royale”. Horowitz’s story titled “Forever And A Day” is authorised by the Fleming Estate (the […]

Jason Borelli writes from his time at New York Comic Con: You’ll never be free until you free yourself from the prison in your mind. This seems a little much to put on the cover of a book. The Hunting Accident has the subtitle, “A True Story of Crime and Poetry.” Given that the subject […]

Jason Borelli writes from his time at New York Comic Con: Some children want to know where they came from. That is the case of Priyanka Das, the heroine of Pashmina, the debut graphic novel from artist Nidhi Chanani for First Second Books. As her mother stonewalls her about why she left India, Priyanka finds […]

Jason Borelli writes from his time at New York Comic Con for Bleeding Cool, During the Great Depression, many destitute souls became hobos. They rode the rails, scrounged for food, and lived day-to-day. While the hobo life was bleak, it has been romanticized for decades. Soupy Leaves Home follows Pearl, a runaway who cuts her […]

Rosilyne Bean reported from New York Comic Con 2017: At the Introduction to Berger Books panel at NYCC 2017, Karen Berger shared information about the new titles incoming from her team-up with Dark Horse Comics. Accompanying her were several writers and artists of the forthcoming series. Hungry Ghosts, written by Anthony Bourdain and Joel Rose, […]

Rosilyne Bean reporting from NYCC for Bleeding Cool In anticipation of his upcoming new thriller Artemis, Andy Weir, author of The Martian teamed with actress Rosario Dawson (The Defenders, Sin City), Audible and artist Luke Jerram to launch the “Museum of the Moon” exhibition at the Classic Car Club of Manhattan during NYCC. The exhibition […]

Andy Weir’s first novel “The Martian” took the world by storm, a dusty red Mars storm.  It hit hard and fast, a masterful melding of humor, science, peril, and heart.  It was quickly scooped up by 20th Century Fox with Drew Goddard attached to direct the script he adapted. But then Sir Ridley Scott stepped in […]

Andy Weir’s first novel “The Martian” took the world by storm, a dusty red Mars storm.  It hit hard and fast, a masterful melding of humor, science, peril, and heart.  It was quickly scooped up by 20th Century Fox with Drew Goddard attached to direct the script he adapted. But then Sir Ridley Scott stepped in […]