Author: Maria Francis

Here’s what happened. . . . “But I HATE audiobooks.” That was my initial reaction when Editor Vicki threw out the pitch for an article about listening to audiobooks by someone who doesn’t like them. …

     HIGH MOON’s the name, especially if a werewolf Western’s your game. The first volume of this award-winning webcomic drops on Halloween Day, and with its mashup of Old West and horror genres, the …

        Written by Finnish writer Leena Likitalo, “The Sisters of the Crescent Moon” is the second book in the Waning Moon Duology series. A fantasy tale inspired by the lives of the …

"Loved and Lost" by Tyler Chin-Tanner features a series of romantic stories and diverse cast of characters that show us love is always ready and waiting to surprise us when we least expect it. …

Loved & Lost is a graphic novel anthology that shares a variety of perspectives on a subject near and dear to all of our hearts: romantic love. Portland author Tyler Chin-Tanner, best known for titles like …

I was nervous about starting Tolkien’s Return of the King(ROTK). I’d seen the film exactly once in the theater. I didn’t like the movie at all. It was long. It was tedious. Aesthetically it was …

A few months ago, I read The Fellowship of the Ring (FotR) for the very first time while live-tweeting every step of the way. When I started The Two Towers(TTT), I didn’t know what to …

When I decided to read and live-tweet The Fellowship of the Ring (FotR) it was mostly as a lark. For years I’d been dissing and dismissing Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” series, assuming it’d be …