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Every couple of years there seems to be an outbreak of new book trends all featured in one genre or sub-genre. In the young adult fiction world, vampires and werewolves have been an extremely popular pick of the last year or two, but now in 2011, a fresh wave of trends ( Read more... )

Originally published at Grasping for the Wind. Please leave any comments there.

Most fantasy fans have the literary equivalent of a sweet tooth. Non-fiction, biographies, and academic texts are well and good, but fantasy readers crave escape into worlds where the rules, landscapes, and occupants may differ from their own. For an author such as ( Read more... )