The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

In Which We Welcome MAGGIE STIEFVATER. Yes. REALLY.

Way back in April 2010, I wrote my first ever review. It was of a book called Shiver, by a writer who was entirely new to me. Since then, I've written many reviews and The Mountains of Instead is still, somewhat amazingly to me, up and running.  I've read and reviewed many, many stories inc…