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In the past year, I’ve learned that description is a lot more complicated than you think. It’s not just using the five senses. It’s about invoking emotion with your description as well.
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A Book Review of The Progeny by Tosca Lee
Emily Jacobs is the descendant of a serial killer. Now, she’s become the hunted. She’s on a quest that will take her to the secret underground of Europe and the inner circles of three ancient orders—one determined to kill her, one devoted to keeping her alive, and one she must ultimately save. …
Five Tips on Designing Book Covers for Indie Authors Featuring TerriblyBadBookCovers
I am so excited to have TerriblyBadBookCovers on the blog today! Their cover finds have had me in stitches, so I am so happy to learn tips on how to actually make a good cover! Please welcome them to the blog!
A Book Review of the Queen’s Resistance by Rebecca Ross
Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she’d just survived a revolution that will return a queen to the throne, she faces yet another challenge: acceptance by the MacQuinns. But as Queen Isolde Kavanagh’s …
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Writing Lessons from Video Games: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess vs. Okami
Twilight Princess is my favorite Legend of Zelda game, but one other game that was recommended to me because I like that one is Okami. Both are very similar in concept. They both have wolf protagonists with plucky companions who want to save the world from a great darkness. I’ve wanted to play Okami for over ten years and …
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A Book Review of The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal
It’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the …
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A Book Review of Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young
OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield—her brother, fighting with the enemy—the brother she watched die five …
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The Laments and Revelations of a Christian Geek Writer
Though I was raised in a Christian home all of my life, I never felt like I fit in with the Christian community. As soon as I started showing any form of geeky tendencies as a kid, I felt a disconnect from every church, Sunday school, church camp, you name it I went to. …
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Writing Lessons from Video Games: Horizon Zero Dawn
This is my favorite game I played in the latter half of 2019. I fell in love with it from the first scene. I love the gameplay, plot, characters, world, music, graphics, just everything about it. The only thing I was little miffed with is it had a bit of a left-leaning feminism …
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A Book Review of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest …