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Book Review and Writing Lessons: Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill

  Evalina Cassano’s life in an Italian-American family in 1941 is quiet and ordinary … until she falls in love with Taichi Hamasaki, the son of Japanese immigrants. Despite the scandal, it would cause and the fact that interracial marriage is illegal in California, Evalina and Taichi vow they will find a way to be …

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So Your Character is From Venezuela … Featuring Alice @aliceswritingstory

  I feel like this post is especially relevant with the new popularization of communism. The dangers of communism have been known to me throughout my life as I’ve lived in Miami where Cubans fled after the ascension of Fidel Castro. Venezuela is unfortunately another one of the countries that have been reduced from its …

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So Your Character is From Mexico 2 … Featuring Ana Sofia

  So Your Character is … is back for a time after a long hiatus! In this series, I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers …

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Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

  In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. But they number only six–who …

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So Your Character is From Malta … Featuring Charlene @ OnlyfortheBooks

  So Your Character is … is back for a time after a long hiatus! In this series, I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers …

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So Your Character is From Mongolia … Featuring Jenny Sandiford

  So Your Character is … is back for a time after a long hiatus! In this series, I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers …

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Book Review and Writing Lessons: The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks

Thousands of years after the destruction of the age of man and science, new races and magic now rule the world, but an imminent danger threatens. A horde of evil Demons is beginning to escape and bring death upon the land. Only Wil Ohmsford, the last of the Shannara bloodline, has the power to guard …

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Writing Lessons from Video Games: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition

  I’ve only heard of this game recently what with the remake having just come out this year, but my two good friends recommended it to me so I thought I’d give it a shot. I really enjoyed it. It was a great original story with more twists at the climax than I’ve ever seen in …

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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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