One of the greatest gifts Twitter has given us this holiday season is the “Holiday a Book” hashtag. With entries like “The Fault in Our Scarves“, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret Santas“, and “Lord of the Five Golden Rings” it was tough to pick an absolute favorite, but we finally had to go with the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy account’s homage to Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem. We have more gifts for you in our publishing news roundup!
- Kate Elliot and Ken Liu talk about the need for powerful women in fantasy.
- HEX author Thomas Olde Heuvelt discusses HEX, translation, and color in this interview with Locus.
- The Guardian asks: Is Westworld novelistic? Or are novels Westworld-esque?
- Tired of watching comics damsels meet their doom? Catherynne M. Valente’s The Refrigerator Monologues gives characters like Gwen Stacy, Karen Page, and Alexandra DeWitt a second shot at life.
- The only thing better than reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda read it.
- Can you defeat the Skeletal Welsh Christmas Horse?
- Tips on the difficult art of revision from one of our best writing teachers.
- Here are some of the best indie bookstores in America!
- Barnes and Noble selects the best new manga series of 2016.
- And finally, Pornokitsch offer this Absolute and Definitive Guide to the Best of Everything in 2016.