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I actually do not like writing reviews, I realized today. I find them easy to write for magazines, because magazine have their audiences, and certain expectations, and also word count limits. No obligation to be deep. That can be so daunting. And then there is the thing when I have no idea what to write […]
Read More Books to Binge: The Dispatcher by John ScalziIt was very rainy and rather cold in Zagreb for the weekend, and I spent most of it outside. Because I am contrary by nature, because there’s just something about dreary April weather that speaks to my soul and because the sunny, warm days can really, truly get me down – April is the cruelest […]
Read More Calls for Fiction: A Short RoundupI used to dream of going to Worldcon, and now I plan my vacations around SF conventions. Science fiction has become mainstream, and cons are popping up everywhere. Too many to count, way too many to visit, but I plan to have so much fun giving it a good go. Even though right now it […]
Read More Upcoming SF Conventions in AprilI fell in love with the layered plots, vivid characters and complex worlds of Juliet E. McKenna more than a decade ago, when she was a Guest of Honour at Istrakon in Croatia. I had very little patience for series and even less for fantasy one, but that strange need to give a chance to […]
Read More Books to Binge: Green Man’s Heir by Juliet E. McKennaVesna Kurilić, the award-winning author of Izazov krvi, a Croatian YA novel about a female-dominated werewolf pack from Gorski kotar set in the 19th century, has won the city of Rijeka literary grant for the third installment of her werewolf saga. I am ecstatic! For her, and for me: this could not have come at […]
Read More Werewolves Win Literary Grant!