Marjorie M. Liu – interview
Recently I was given the chance to have a phone chat with best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu, author of the “Dirk & Steele” paranormal romance series and “Hunter Kiss” urban fantasy series; Marjorie is also a current writer for Marvel Comics with “X-23″ and “Daken.” In anticipation for Marjorie’s latest Dirk & Steele novel, In [...]
In the Dark of Dreams by Marjorie M. Liu – review
In the Dark of Dreams is the tenth book in the Dirk & Steele series of paranormal romances by Marjorie M. Liu. Thankfully for this reviewer, who had not picked up a book in the series previously, it could be read standalone with very little difficulty. I’m sure some of the nuances and inside jokes [...]
PassionFruit – Girls gone indie: Pioneering the romance casual game genre
Girls gone indie: Pioneering the romance casual game genre by PassionFruit Games Studio Director Melissa Heidrich I recently helped found a company named PassionFruit Games, whose mission is to do something that was virtually unheard of in the US until recently: convert romance novels into video games! It makes so much sense. Romance novels account [...]
X-23 #1 (One-shot) – Preview (Marvel Comics!)
I like the look of this one. Marjorie Liu, Filipe Andrade, and Alina Urusov (cover) bring us a one-shot featuring X-23, aka the last new Marvel character introduced whose first appearance has a premium associated with it. Below we have a preview from the Marvelous ones featuring a pretty cool intro and I’m down with [...]
Never After by Laurell K. Hamilton, Yasmine Galenorn, Marjorie M. Liu, and Sharon Shinn – review

Never After is billed as a collection of “feminist fairy tales,” basically stories that take the idea of the fairy tale wedding and explore the possibility that it might, well, not be such a fairy tale. I will confess that my eyebrows arched pretty high when I read the list of established professionals contributing stories: Laurell K. Hamilton, Marjorie M. Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, and Sharon Shinn. I have read at least one novel from each of them, and my experience was that all but Shinn write novels that are too deeply entrenched in sex to be anything like what I would label feminist writing. However. I was very willing to be pleasantly surprised by this collection, and you know what? I was.
Full review after the jump…










