Throughout 2020, All Lit Up-er Tan Light has been participating in BookRiot's  Read Harder Challenge—a reading task designed to expand readerly boundaries—and doing so with an indie twist. Each entry in this series will highlight one or two completed challenges along ... Read more

Welcome to Off/Kilter, a brand new blog column on All Lit Up devoted to books of a magical and surreal nature, featuring alternate realities, dystopian worlds, strange beasties and more. From the dark and fantastical to the joyfully absurd, we’ll explore how books within ... Read more

Happy Hallowe’en! We’re celebrating with ten spooky things found in books that we’ll be reading with every light on in the house.

Today's story-behind-a-story is Hallowe'en perfect: author Jon R. Flieger shares the inspiration behind the funeral services workers who staff his latest novel  You Are Among Monsters (Palimpsest Press). After many conversations with a mortician friend fresh to the profession, ... Read more

It's official: we have some scary books for sale here on All Lit Up. With all of the monsters, legendary creatures, and semi-spooky protagonists featuring in these books, we thought pitting them against each other in a card game was the logical next step (but again, we're one ... Read more

It’s the New Year, and we were inspired by the newest things out there: BABIES. Check out these seven bookish babes (or baby accessories).

Just because launch season is slowing, it's FAR from over: there's Words festival in London, plus all the great reading series and launches you could ever hope to shake a stick at (though we don't know why you would hope that, we respect your choices).

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Many years ago, when I was an enthusiastic young writer, I took a creative writing class at a nearby university campus. I honestly can’t remember much about the experience (besides of course the absolute horror of twenty of us sitting around a large wooden table and being ... Read more

Today's First Fiction Friday features The Wintermen, a novel about climate change-induced endless winter, corporate centralization and control, and a scrappy band of northerners trying to keep things the way they were. See why author Tony Burgess calls this debut, David-and-Goliath ... Read more

After launching All Lit Up last week, now it’s time to party! We hope you’ll join us in our nationwide celebration, either in person or online.