Welcome to Smugglivus 2014! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2014, looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2015, and more. Who: Mieneke, a librarian and blogger over at A Fantastical Librarian where she posts reviews, interviews and more. In 2014, Mieneke was deservedly nominated for a World Fantasy Special Award: Non-professional. Please give it up for Mieneke, everybody! So, 2014 is already coming to a close. And I don’t know whether that makes me happy or sad, be-cause this past year in genre? It has been a year for all of the weirdness and it seemed that every time a controversy had run its course or come to a conclusion, the next one kicked off. And yes, perhaps that’s actually every year in this community of ours, but I don’t know *she said in her best Sarah Koenig impression* this year it felt just amped up to eleven. Yet despite all the un-pleasantness (understatement of the century), there have also been some awesome things started up this year, such as my esteemed hosts’ newest venture Book Smugglers Publishing and the We Need Diverse […]