What better year than 2011, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, to learn a bit about Jane Austen’s life? Maybe you’ve seen a movie or two made from her books, or maybe you’ve even read the books themselves. But Jane Austen’s life ...

You may not have heard of her, but you’ve probably seen her work. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer. She has been working in the puppetry arts since 1989, but since then has also voiced audiobooks for the likes of John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow, served as secretary and now ...

To be more precise, Seth Grahame-Smith is not himself a vampire (to the best of my knowledge -I didn’t think to ask him that), but the best selling author of several mashups featuring zombies and vampires, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and his latest, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Although he’s ...