By Monica Rudolph-Ruiz Saiya Miller and Liza Bley are currently on tour promoting their first book, Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book, published by Soft Skull Press. Back in 2008, the two put out an open call to young people asking them to create comics addressing topics on sex-ed. They compiled a […]
Author Interview: Jessica Andersen
By Whitney Smyth
By Whitney Smyth Author Jessica Andersen started professionally writing romance novels in 2001, and hasn’t looked back. After recently finishing up her darkly themed Mayan apocalypse series, Final Prophecy, she donned a new penname and has begun a new series of lighter Western romances as Jesse Hayworth. I was able to snag a few minutes […]
Oni Press Internship
By Adam Salazar
There was something magical about reading comics as a kid that, when I think about it now, really paved the way for my lifelong love of literature. Reading X-Men comics in the early ’90s, collecting trading cards, and watching cartoons opened my life up to a grand universe of fantasy and drama. Though I don’t […]
Authors Lend a Helping Hand
By Roberta Kelley
It is common knowledge that independent bookstores have been struggling to stay in business. Studies have shown that fewer and fewer people are actually finding books in bookstores. With the rise of e-books and bookselling websites, readers are finding it more convenient to order books from the comfort of their own homes than to browse […]
Government shutdown = Ooligan shutdown?
By Melissa Gifford
Although news networks loved to focus on the striking visual images associated with the government shutdown of 2013—the outraged veterans unable to pay their respects at the WWII memorial; the big, orange CLOSED sign blocking the road to the Grand Canyon; the wilting gardens of the White House—the less visible repercussions have been far more […]
Writing Excuses: notes on a podcast
By Sarah Hale
Despite the fact that I’ve improved my tendency to procrastinate over the years, those tendencies can still lurk in the background and rear their ugly head. I recently discovered a Hugo Award-winning podcast relating to procrastination and writing. The podcast is titled, “Writing Excuses” (an instant attention grabber for me). It turns out that a […]