by marissa | Mar 25, 2014 | Book Reviews, Fantasy
–I received an ARC of this novel from Angry Robots in exchange for an honest review– I’m fascinated by religions and love stand-up comedy as an art form, so right away the premise of Last God Standing captured my attention: God decides to give up...
by marissa | Mar 19, 2014 | Books Edited by Marissa
Yay! Amazon.com featured The Casquette Girls as its daily deal today, and it’s now a best seller on Kindle. 🙂 And so well deserved too. Alys wrote an amazing story and put a crazy amount of work into it. So happy to see it getting some recognition and great...
by marissa | Oct 26, 2013 | Book Reviews, Books Edited by Marissa, Fantasy
SO EXCITED to see The Casquette Girls released to the world today! Written by Alys Arden, and edited by me. 🙂 The Casquette Girls is a paranormal YA mystery that weaves together the real mythologies of New Orleans into a modern-day, post-hurricane setting. Alys Arden...
by marissa | Sep 10, 2013 | Books Edited by Marissa, Fantasy
I’ve been working with Justin Mermelstein this year, and it’s been amazing to not only read his awesome stories but also to see how he just gets better and better. Watching writers grow is definitely one of the best things about being an editor....
by marissa | Apr 10, 2013 | Books Edited by Marissa, Fantasy
I had the good fortune to be able to work with R. Matthew Simmons recently, copyediting his beautiful novel Gretel: The Children of the Sun. The novel is the first in a trilogy and traces the story of two children, Gretel and Hans, who discover they are the last in a...