Let’s get our read on! It’s been a little while so let’s have a quick refresher, especially if any new fans come by. Supernatural, like many other famous TV and movie properties, has “tie-in novels”. Several of us here at The WFB have read and reviewed the entire series.
This week, I’ve been musing about family dramas. There are many great examples of the genre in television, films, and novels. I wanted to review an episode of Supernatural that had some poignant family drama, so I picked the premiere episode of season five. This episode has incredible drama between our favorite brothers and also…
Wow, it’s been awhile since we last had a new Supernatural book, but Hellatus is upon us which means it’s time to get our SPN fix any way we can. To help us out, a tie-in novel!
As part of my very slow moving project to read all of the Supernatural tie-in novels, I recently completed Witch’s Canyon. This book was released in October, 2007. It was written by Jeff Mariotte, who also wrote tie-in novels for Buffy, Angel, Spiderman, Criminal Minds and Star Trek. Given the publication date, one can assume…
After reading the book Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, I had the great privilege of talking with Dr. Lynn Zubernis, one of its authors and a fangirl herself. In Part 1 of the interview, Lynn explained why people join fandoms, why they are ashamed of their fannish pursuits and the tremendous benefits of being in a fandom. …
“We couldn’t find our fangirl selves in the research. …so we decided to write a book of our own on fans – one that we thought, rather naively, would set the record straight. We would figure out what being a fan was all about and we would get it right!… This is not that book….
Bone Key, written by Keith R.A. DeCandido, was the third novel written as an authorized, tie-in story for Supernatural. The book was published in August, 2008 and takes place mid-season 3, a week after the events of “A Very Supernatural Christmas”. Mr. DeCandido also wrote Nevermore (the first book of the series) and Heart of…
For you youngin’s out there, way in the days before videogames became something you could enjoy for free on your phone, we had to find substitutes for a lot of now common genres. FPS? You had to get your friends and some lazer-tag guns, BB guns, or rocks and run around in the yard. RPGs?…
Carved in Flesh is the twelfth companion book written for the Supernatural TV series. Released in April of 2013, it was written by Tim Waggoner, who also wrote Supernatural, the Television Series: The Roads Not Taken (Oct 2013) and a companion book for another popular science fiction genre show, Stargate SG-1. Mr. Waggoner teaches a…
Well it’s that time of year again. The long winter weeks suffering with family until our beloved show returns. Sure we could pop in the discs or pull down the old episodes on netflix but what if you’re jonsing for something new? Enter the novel run: an episode packed into a processed wood pulp form!…
Those of you who follow my writing know that I am a recent convert to the Supernatural fandom, just discovering the show mid-season 7. A great advantage to joining your ranks late is that there is a huge backlog of audio-visual and literary material available to indulge my new passion! My leisure time has been…
One thing that has always attracted me to “Supernatural” is that any story told in the series can inspire all sorts of discussions about philosophy, theology, morality, the triumphs and consequences of free will, or just how this tightly woven world of Winchesters, monsters, angels and demons can be in overall metaphysics. That discussion isn’t…
