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Monsters, Movies, & Mayhem is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology!

Shannon Fox

Last week I found out that Monsters, Movies, & Mayhem is a finalist for the Colorado Book Award for Best Anthology! My story, “Hyde Park,” appears in this anthology alongside 22 other stories celebrating monsters and the movies.

Edited by Kevin J. Anderson, KJA, this anthology was put together by a cohort of students in the publishing graduate program at Western Colorado University.

If you haven’t picked up a copy of the anthology yet, click here to purchase from your favorite bookseller: https://books2read.com/MonstersMoviesMayhemSF

Thanks also to Sam Knight for typing up the full table of contents of authors who have stories in this one!

JONATHAN MABERRY
LUCIANO MARANO
DAVID GERROLD
JESSE SPRAGUE
C.H. HUNG
KEVIN PETTWAY
DAVID BOOP
JULIE FROST
SHANNON FOX
BRENDAN MALLORY
LINDA MAYE ADAMS
SAM KNIGHT
HAILEY PIPER
RICK WILBER
STEVE RASNIC TEM
BEN MONROE
CHARLES MACLAY
IRENE RADFORD
JAMES A. HEARN
RYAN F. HEALEY
KARINA FABIAN
B.D. PRINCE
FRAN WILDE

Bookish News

Tamora Pierce Coming to Television and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

All the bookish news for November:

-Tamora Pierce’s Tortall universe to be adapted for TV.

-Halloween may be over, but if you’re still in the mood to be scared, check out this list of books that actually scared horror authors!

-Waterstones announces its Book of the Year shortlist.

-TODAY names its 12 best books of fall 2019.

-Publishers Weekly announced its best books of 2019.

-In a rare turn of events, this year the Booker Prize has two winners.

-Publishers Weekly published an extensive list of diverse young adult books that will be out this year or next. Check it out here.

-Check out this year’s National Book Award finalists here.

-Need a good book to curl up with this winter? Check out Vogue’s list of 22 best books to read in winter.

-I’m sure I’ll be posting many more of these “best of the decade” lists before 2019 is over, but let’s kick it off with this list of the best short story collections published this decade.

Bookish News

The Booker Prize Shortlist and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

All the bookish news for September:

-This year’s Booker Prize shortlist features Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie. Check out all the nominees here.

–Buzzfeed published a list of the top 15 books every fantasy fan should read.

-Eight new releases in horror this month.

-HBO’s adaptation of His Dark Materials gets a release date! November 4th – so close! Click here to watch the star-studded. trailer

–Seventeen compiled a list of the sixty-five best YA novels so far this year. Check it out.

-The BBC put together their own list of ten books you must read in September.

–EW previews forty books coming out this fall.

-Finally, the NY Times published a list of seventeen books to watch for this September.

Bookish News

Remembering Toni Morrison and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

Missed this series? Don’t worry, I’ve got lots of bookish news to share this week!

-Writers and thinkers pay tribute to Toni Morrison.

-Read Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Acceptance speech here.

-The 2019 First Novel Prize Longlist was announced. See the nominees here.

–Afrofuturism is taking over sci-fi and I. Am. Here. For. It.

-The 2019 Booker Longlist was also announced – see the list here.

-All the new books coming out in the second half of 2019.

-YA Novel Aurora Rising to become a TV show.

Bookish News

2019 Locus Award Winners and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

Missed this series? Don’t worry, I’ve got lots of bookish news to share this week!

-The 2019 Locus Award Winners have been announced! Click here to see the list.

–9 New Books coming out in July.

–Elizabeth Acevedo wins the Carnegie Medal, becomes the first writer of color to win the award. Acevedo is Dominican-American and won for her children’s book, The Poet X.

-Fresh off the rave reviews for Good Omens, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman stories are also set to become a TV series. Here are all the details.

–Joy Harjo named Poet Laureate, becomes first Native American to hold the title.

-Something to look forward to in 2020: we’re getting a Hunger Games prequel novel. Check out the details here.

-And just for fun: what your favorite beach read says about you.

Bookish News

The Most Anticipated Books of 2018 and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

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Enjoying this new series? I’ll be back next week with the latest rumblings in the literary world!

-Loving this roundup of the most anticipated books of the second half of 2018 on The Millions. What are you excited for?

-Check out this recent interview with Jeff VanderMeer in The Paris Review.

-Like scary stories? Check out this list of frightening books recommended by popular authors in The New York Times.

-More books picked by authors: Summer 2018 Reads. Check out Parts One and Two of this series in The Guardian.

-Black Panther fans! Shuri is getting her own comic book series! Check out the details here.

-The original map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood has set a world record for a book illustration sold at auction. See what it sold for here.

Bookish News, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews

Stranger Things Adapted For Fiction and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

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Enjoying this new series? I’ll be back next week with the latest rumblings in the literary world!

* Love the Netflix show Stranger Things? There’s a few books based on the hit show headed your way this fall. Check it out here.

* NPR reported that in the last half a decade, the number of U.S. adults who are reading poetry has nearly doubled. This doesn’t surprise me as my Featured Poems posts are usually well received! Read their report here.

* Check out these new releases by Simon Teen that are slated for release in Spring 2019.

* Entertainment Weekly compiled a list of their 10 best books of 2018.

* Buzzfeed created a list of 27 YA books to read beside the pool this summer.

Bookish News

18 Great Dystopian Novels and Other Bookish News

Shannon Fox

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Enjoying this new series? I’ll be back next week with the latest rumblings in the literary world!

* Buzzfeed put out a list of 18 great dystopian novels and I have to agree…I’ve read most on the list!

* Check out Nylon’s list of the best books of summer 2018 here.

* Female authors share the books they read when they’re angry.

* For the non-fiction readers, Forbes has a list of “15 Inspirational Books to Read For Success in Work and Life”.

* If it’s not clear by now, I like lists organized under the obscurest of headings. This one from Business Insider wins this week: 12 Books Famous Scientists Think You Should Read.

* Finally, just for fun: a handy novel pitch generator. Try it out here.