by runestone admin | Dec 12, 2025
Tannery Bay by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean ShinkleThe University of Alabama Press, 2024199 pages, $18.47ISBN-13: 978-1-57366-205-5 Tannery Bay by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle was an odd read (which I mean in a complimentary sense). Though it is not a debut novel...
by runestone admin | Dec 7, 2025
It’s fascinating to think if you change a moment or two in a story it can change the projection of said story. What if Simba from the Lion King never returned to his birth place? What if Voldemort did successfully kill off Harry? What if Cruella Deville actually did...
by runestone admin | Dec 1, 2025
Whenever I imagine my dream job as an author, I picture myself writing under a different name—a pen name. It’s been this way since I was twelve years old, scribbling furiously in the pages of my notebook. Over the years, my reasons why and the names I’ve invented have...
by runestone admin | Nov 18, 2025
MonstrilioGerardo Sámano CórdovaZando ProjectsMarch 2023ISBN 978–1–63893–160–7 Grief eats you up from the inside, as is shown in Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s debut novel Monstrilio, published under Zando Projects. Córdova’s novel is an exploration of grief, identity,...
by runestone admin | Nov 14, 2025
ISBN: 9781649374042by Rebecca YarrosEntangled Publishing, 2023, 512 pp., $14.99, paper “A dragon without its rider is a tragedy. A rider without their dragon is dead.” ― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing In a world of betrayal, secrets, heartache, misfits, and cutthroat...
by runestone admin | Nov 11, 2025
Psychiatric facilities are not welcoming places. Despite their goal of rehabilitation and healing, they are often dull, concrete-laden and washed in fluorescent light. Except, however, when it comes to Danish author Fine Gråbøl’s vulnerable portrayal in her debut...
