March 19, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS
So I’m flipping through my February 2014 issue of VOYA Magazine and I see a head-shot of author Mindy McGinnis – what is she doing there I wonder? Her book, Not a Drop to Drink (I’m a fan), is mentioned as being an example of CliFi. Wait – what is this CliFi thing? You know […]
October 29, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
“Don’t contact anyone from your past. Don’t tell anyone about your past. Forget the rules . . . and die.” Eve remembers nothing of her past. She is in witness protection. They need her to remember and testify; she has escaped a serial killer that uses magic to kill his prey. They say she knows […]
January 10, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
What do superheroes, paranormal, alternate history, dystopian and horror all have in common? They all fall under the umbrella of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction is hot in the publishing world. Readers of all ages like to be whisked away into worlds of fantasy and what if . . . ? In fact, paranormal romance is […]
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November 19, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I love speculative fiction so much that when I started Month9Books, I added the commonly misunderstood term to our tagline: “speculative fiction for teens and tweens where nothing is as it seems.” Those of you who are genre fiction fans, and in particular speculative fiction fans, may already know what it means. But for those […]
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