Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.

I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.