The Nebula and Bram Stoker Award Winners Have Been Announced

As for the winners, one of my favorite books of last year, Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, won the Nebula Award for Novel. In the novella award, I’m not surprised that Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots is the winner. I haven’t read it, but I did read “This Is How You Lose the Time War,” which I loved. There was also a moment when it became a hot topic on Twitter. It’s a good time.

Favorite Beach Reading by Your Favorite Author

Well, strictly speaking, it doesn’t just include the author cultured mughas rounded up the best books to read on the beach this summer. However, some of the authors included include Chan-Rae Lee (who recommends Sky Daddy by Kate Falk), Ryan O’Connell (who recommends Guillaume Dustin’s work), and Rachel Reid (who recommends Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian). Other recommended books include The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Luster by Raven Leilani, and On Censorship by Ai Weiwei. On the other hand, while I appreciate the variety of genres and release dates (one book was published in 1954), I’m really not happy with the overall diversity of the list.

2025 Bram Stoker Award Winners

You read that year correctly. Similar to the aforementioned Nebula Awards, we’re still awarding books for 2025, but oh well! Later in the year, it’s better than nothing. Plus, as a recent convert to horror reading, I love reminiscing about great horror. And as you may know, the book that won the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fiction is Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones. You can read my thoughts on this book in my Best Books of 2025 list. Other honorees include Ryan Coogler; sinner (Winner of Excellence in Screenwriting), Becky Siegel Spratford’s “Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Fiction” (Winner of Excellence in Feature Nonfiction), and Mike Mignola’s “Bowling with Corpses and Other Stories from Strange Lands” (Winner of Excellence in Graphic Novel). As a supplement, I have also included the following buffalo hunter hunter List of books you should read if you like movies sinner. Just throw it out there…

Three Caribbean romances to start your celebrations

The Caribbean is vast, and according to this excellent list by Jessica Pride, it’s the perfect setting for a bakery-based romance set in the early 20th century that features a sapphire vampire (!). This month, celebrate your Caribbean heritage with these heart-pounding (fang?) romances.