A review by Nalini Haynes Dwayne Johnson plays Black Adam, originally Teth-Adam. As a former wrestler – the performative kind not the “real” kind – …
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Payback’s a witch by Lana Harper
A review by Nalini Haynes Last weekend I attended a SFWA romance writers’ event where we compiled a list of speculative fiction/fantasy stories featuring romance. …
Deluge by Stephen Markley
A review by Nalini Haynes The Deluge is a CliFi (Climate Fiction) doorstopper at about 900 pages. Nearly the first 100 pages read like short …
SFWA Nebulas attendee romance recommendations
Today I attended a post-Nebula Conference romance writers meetup, which was interesting and enjoyable. Apart from encouragement to continue writing and anecdotes from those who, …
Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
A review by Nalini Haynes I read the Bruising of Qilwa before moving interstate. Although I intended to write this review in Canberra – a …
Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
A review by Nalini Haynes Animal Life is touted to be in a similar vein as The Animals In That Country. I disagree. As I …
Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
A review by Nalini Haynes Once upon a time a teenage girl, Bee, had a crush on a boy in a boy band, Noah. That …
Clare Niederpruem on Christmas movies, Vince Vaughn v Hallmark
In this podcast, Nalini Haynes interviews Clare Niederpruem. Clare has a history of acting in sci fi and fantasy. She was in Zombie Hunter, Mythica and …
Small Town Big Magic by Hazel Beck
A review by Nalini Haynes Emerson is an OCD woman in her twenties running a bookstore and elected as a town councillor. Her family abandoned …
Vision Australia interviewed me as a seeing eye dog handler
A few months ago, Harriet from Vision Australia interviewed me over the phone for Vision Australia’s radio program that is also published as a podcast. …
Noah Segan loves vampire movies
In this podcast I talk to Noah Segan whose extensive list of acting credits started when he was 7 years old. Now he’s extended into …
I am not fine thanks by Wil Anderson
I am not fine thanks begins with the pandemic. Comedian Wil Anderson quit his radio job to tour a few shows in 2020 because what …
Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
A review by Nalini Haynes Devon is one in a family of book eaters. They might look human at first glance but they have “book …
Wolfsong by TJ Klune
A review by Nalini Haynes Ox is a lonely teenager with an undisclosed disability working part-time in a mechanical garage while at high school, cared …
How many more women by Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida
A review by Nalini Haynes How Many More Women: exposing how the law silences women is an important non fiction expose of how women are …