Connect with local holiday shoppers
The holidays are quickly approaching and 40% of U.S. consumers have already started their holiday shopping. Supporting local businesses is top of mind this year. In...
Cisco Jumps into the Lead in Customer Care and Collaboration
Back in the 1980s, when I first started working in tech, I worked for ROLM Systems, which made advanced PBXs. PBXs made the then next-generation business...
A Graphic Novel About 100 Years of Matrilineal Family History, From South China to Singapore
To hear Weng Pixin tell it, Let’s Not Talk Anymore started out as a kind of “fuck you” move after a particularly bad fight with her...
9 Short Story Collections About the Uncanny
As a child, the worst mean-big-sister trick I ever played on my little brother was to convince him that I could transform at will into an...
Why Don’t Books Have A Credits Page?
Paratext fascinates me to no end. I love looking and thinking about all of the pieces that comprise a book which aren’t the actual narrative itself:...
A Personal Reckoning With True Crime as a Genre
It started where a lot of people started: the podcast Serial. I’d read some true crime before (mostly just some Ann Rule paperbacks I found at...
10 Disturbing Nursery Rhyme Origin Stories to Celebrate Nursery Rhyme Week
World Nursery Rhyme Week (WNRW) began in 2013 to promote the importance of nursery rhymes in early childhood development. For folks who work with children under...
20 Must-Read Genre-Blending Romance Books To Satisfy Your Needs
What I love about romance in books (or any other format) is that it fits perfectly with every scenario. There’s a murderer inside the house, but...
Authors As Tarot Cards
Tarot cards have long been used to seek insight and direction, and yes, sometimes they’re pulled out just for fun. In recent years, there have been...
YA Comics and Graphic Novels Releasing October-December 2021
It’s been a big year for YA comics and graphic novels, with the launch of even more YA graphic novel imprints from major publishers and some...
