July 2022 – Lauren Beukes

July 28, 2022

Stephen King Calls The Adaptation A Novel For The Eyes And Mind

Not the first time I'm extremely honoured by this particular writer but yet again Stephen King is tweeting about Shining Girls. Super happy he enjoyed the adaptation! SHINING GIRLS (Apple+): [...]

July 27, 2022

Celsius 232 Festival 2022

Had the best, most hilarious and wonderful time at #Celsius232 festival of fantasy, horror and SF in #Aviles, Spain and got to hang out with some of my favourite damn writers in the [...]

July 26, 2022

Paste Magazine Dissect Shining Girls

Natalie Zutter at Paste Magazine dissects the recent adaptation of The Shining Girls, looking more deeply at how the screen version differs from the book and why. Be warned - [...]

July 22, 2022

All The Pretty Corpses: Violence In Fiction Should Be Upsetting

Revisiting a piece I wrote for WHSmith and the Richard & Judy Bookclub which looks more deeply at why I wrote The Shining Girls the way I did: Pop culture [...]

July 20, 2022

Screen Rant Collate The Best Quotes From The Adaptation

Screen Rant's John Ranic collects some stand out quotes from The Shining Girls adaptation. A triumph of an adaptation from Showrunner Silka Luisa and the team of writers who brought [...]

July 14, 2022

IndieWire Praise Shining Girls Finale

Kristen Lopez at IndieWire praises the TV Adaptation of Shining Girls finale calling the ending “a surprising twist: a fairly definitive ending”. Lopez writes about how the show maintains a […]

July 13, 2022

Talking The Adaptation And My Upcoming Book With Cape Talk

Pippa Hudson at Cape Talk spoke to me yesterday for her On The Couch segment; we spoke about all things Shining Girls and I get to introduce what I’m currently […]

July 12, 2022

Rolling Stone Include Shining Girls In Best Shows of 2022 List

"This crop of standout series brings us tech dystopias, culture clashes, sarcastic superheroes, adorable schoolkids, twisted time travel, and much more" writes journalist Alan Sepinwall at Rolling Stone. Described as "new [...]

July 7, 2022

Strange Creatures at Fantasticon 2022

A couple weekends back I had the privilege of joining Fantasticon in Copenhagen for their 2022 convention, titled Strange Creatures, as their guest of honour alongside the talented Priya Sharma. […]

July 6, 2022

The Independent Explores The Shining Girls Examination Scene

The Independent’s Amanda Whiting writes an in depth look at the medical examination scene that takes place in the morgue in the recent Shining Girls adaptation. Whiting looks at leading […]