Mark London Williams at next meeting

Mark London Williams, author the August Dark Forces Book Group selection Danger Boy #1: Ancient Fire, will be attending our next meeting on Wednesday, August 13, 7 PM at the Flight Path.


Before joining our little geekfest, Mark is celebrating the paperback release of the latest Danger Boy adventure (#4 City of Bones) at Austin Books, 5-7PM. So bring the kiddies and introduce them to the author of a series that offers "plenty of excitement, adventure and surprises." (Alex's Book Nook) Mark will be willing to sign any of the Danger Boy books.

Praise for Danger Boy:

• "[T]he best children's book series you're not reading." -- Monster & Critics

• "Readers . . . will revel in this fractured time line, as well as in Eli’s ruminations on relativity, unintended consequences of technology, and quantum flux." -- School Library Journal

• "[S]hows how peoples' actions can be transformative, but it also lets a young reader learn about history in a dramatic and exciting way." -- Jewish Book World

• "[H]igh adventure." -- Midwest Book Review

• "There's a dinosaur, for God's sake. And Nazis. And King Arthur. And baseball. You can't go wrong with that." -- RevolutionSF

Hope to see y'all at one or both events.

Mark London Williams interview

Long time Dark Forces friend Mark London Williams discusses his popular YA series Danger Boy and parenthood in this brief feature over at Monsters & Critics.

Monsters: Do you feel parents are reading less to their children in lieu of pacifying them with video distractions?

Everyone is too distracted, too busy. And we're starting to have a generation of parents that don't read much -- at least, not for pleasure -- themselves. Everything now is relegated to one "screen" or another, including the one you're reading these words on. And while I freely admit I've made much of my own livelihood on this same screen, we all need to step away from it once in awhile.

Continued...

Le Guin on literature

This came to me via my buddy and Danger Boy creator Mark London Williams and I thought I'd share with the class. It's an article centering around Le Guin's belief that literature is just another brand of genre fiction... a subject often discussed at our meetings.

Rick