Join us October 22  for our  Library Journal  Day of Dialog  virtual event! Spanning a variety of genres, this free, day-long program will o...

To kick start this Halloween season, join us online as author and librarian Becky Spratford explores what makes the horror genre so compelling. She will also talk about her new...

With her new horror anthology, Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror, Chicago based editor/author Cynthia Pelayo expects to broaden the horizon for her prolific work in a debut edition fr...

City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks

That Librarian Amanda Jones talks about the mental health realities of fighting censorship, influential leaders and literature that have guided her work, and why she believes the pendulum is swinging ...

The most recent episode of Shelf Care The Podcast hosted by my Booklist editor, Susan Maguire is now live. See the details below .  But real...

This month's  Booklist magazine  is chock full of Romance which is great because our readers cannot get enough of it right now and quite fra...

As I have mentioned before on this blog, Kelly Jensen has been the only journalist in America covering the assault on our intellectual freed...

As I have mentioned before on this blog, Kelly Jensen has been the only journalist in America covering the assault on our intellectual freed...

I normally would not post to everyone about an in person event, rather I would just post it on this page (available on the top of the righ...

Today is the final giveaway before the bonanza that is 31 Days of Horror. I am offering 2 great ARCs, of titles I did NOT get a chance to re...

I have written many times about how important covers are to the work we do connecting books with readers. Click here for the most recent tim...

“Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any we...

The August 2026 issue of Booklist has 5 Horror reviews by me-- 1 starred review and 4 glowing reviews. There are many happy readers who will...

As part of the 150s Anniversary celebration of Library Journal by Library Journal ( click here for all of it ), Neal Wyatt wrote a comprehen...

"The boundary between worlds is at its most porous." Horror legend Ellen Datlow talks bringing together 19 dark fiction heavyweights for her chilling new Halloween anthology.

Advocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six.

DANIEL KRAUS <br> When sales flagged, I'd simply have to write myself out of author jail. I'd have to write something so good that the publishers would be like, “yeah, we can't *not* give this guy a ...

This is part of my ongoing series on using Awards Lists as a RA tool.  Click here for all posts in the series  in reverse chronological orde...