Victoria Grace Howell

Victoria Grace Howell is an award-winning published author and freelance writer and editor. When not typing away at her stories and essays, she enjoys drawing her characters, blogging, traveling, cosplaying, and a good hot cup of tea. She lives in Georgia with her cat Lessy.

Book Review and Writing Lessons: Gatekeepers by Robert Liparulo

The house talks. It breathes. And it’s hungry. The Kings have been in the creepy old place, their new home, for only a few days, but they’ve experienced enough terror to last a lifetime. And the mystery is growing even more baffling. Shadowy and shifting, the big house conceals doors into other worlds that blur …

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Book Review and Writing Lessons: Crooked House by Agatha Christie

The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of …

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Writing Lessons from Video Games: The Gabriel Knight Trilogy

  The Gabriel Knight PC game series is a 90s franchise I hadn’t heard of until recently when writing a review for a gaming website. When my editor asked me to include a comparative title for my review, I decided to give the first game a shot since the remake was on-sale. I ended up really …

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