A Review of the Sensational, Cult Writers: 50 Nonconformist Novelists You Need to Know by Ian Haydn Smith, Kristelle Rodeia

I requested this book on Netgalley and am really glad I did! The book begins with a description of the qualities that the author considers make a writer a cult writer. Then, it provides information about 50 of them. Accompanying each author’s brief life history is a colored sketch with a quote from one of…

Roseanne Montillo’s, The Lady & Her Monsters, Takes us Behind the Scenes & Plops us Down Right into Mary Shelley’s Life

Oh, what a sad life Mary Shelley led! The book follows Mary’s life right from the moment of her birth and touches on every source of inspiration that led to the writing of Frankenstein. The story would leave Mary for a while at some points and follow other people who were vital to the writing…