Review: Liar by Justine Larbalestier

October 24th, 2013

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

Accessing The Future- Kathryn Allan & Djibril al-Ayad talk about their SF anthology, exploring disability and the intersectionality of other marginalizations in Science Fiction

Kathryn Allan, with Djibril al-Ayad (of Futurefire.net Publishing), is co-editing a forthcoming anthology, Accessing the Future, that will explore disability—and the intersectionality of race, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class—in both the imagined physical and virtual spaces of the future. Kathryn wants people of all abilities to see themselves, as they are now and as they want to be, in our collective human future(s). Please pre-order the anthology and help the editors pay a professional rate to all authors: Accessing The Future Indiegogo link. They’re so close to a first stretch goal!

 

Week Four of OUR Favorites, Day One:Favorite Authors- Emlyn Chand+ Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

 Wow!!! I can't believe we're already on our FINAL week of favorites. This event was super fun and quite honestly, while it was just an experiment, we may just find ourselves doing this every year! Events are soooo fun and such a great way to incorporate your love for books without it feeling like work!Gotta say, Events are such a fun way to promote posts!

Anyways, where were we? Oh yes! Week four of our FAVORITES! This week is super special because it features none other than our favorite authors of this year!

Now our first favorite is an author, by the name of Emlyn Chand .

 Her books give me astounding faith in the world of Independent Publishing. When we reviewers say that we're looking for those "gems" when it comes to Independently Published works, this my dear is one of them! 

You couldn't tell any of her books we're self published just by looking at them and that's the point! 

Emlyn Chand has managed to do what a lot of traditionally published series have failed to do, and that's make a series that centers on MAIN characters of marginalized groups.

 Now there are plenty of series in the traditionally published series that I love and brag about, but none like this!

Emlyn Chand has managed to make a disabled main character desirable in a way i haven't yet seen before in YA books, but shes also expanded on that by centering on a South Asian lead character for her second book in the series AND GET THIS...her next titles release "Pitch" will be from the voice of my favorite character in the series, Shapri!Check out that sick cover up above for it!

  Isn't that sick?

If you have completely lost faith in Independently published books, don't fret!This series will completely restore your faith!Do yourself a favor, Check out this series and not only that,

Check out this author!

Week One: Covers - Fifth Favorite! A Time To Dance by Padma Venkatraman+ Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

It's been a challenge narrowing down our favorite book covers to just six choices but every second has been fun! We had sooooo many options and we'd love to open up the floor for this topic again but until then we'd like to introduce our 5th favorite book cover:

 A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman