Book Reviewer Paul Goat Allen Talks Great Books, SciFi, Fantasy, Genre, Rereading, and His 6,000 Reviews!


November 29th, 2010

Paul Goat Allen has been a full-time book reviewer specializing in genre fiction for almost the last two decades. He has written more than 6,000 reviews for companies like Publishers Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, and BarnesandNoble.com.

Paul and I discussed how he became a reviewer, changes in the industry, his basement full of books, writers: Ken Scholes and Claude Lalumière, the pleasure of re-reading, and his thoughts about my new novel, Yarn.

Visit Paul at The BN SciFi and Fantasy Blog

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