Buy from Amazon! Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince—the friend—who betrayed her, Mare …
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It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where 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 a …
So Your Character is From Malaysia … Featuring Anna @ A Tsp & Naadhira @ Legenbooksdary Read More »
Food can be an easily overlooked detail in stories, especially in books when we don’t have to physically show what the characters are eating. We can get away with generic words like pastry, meat, vegetable, and fruit, but food can add so much more detail to a story. Now you don’t need to go all …
I’m back, peeps! I didn’t plan on doing this post, but I’ve seen a bunch of people doing goals posts and so I kinda want to do one, so I am. I covered some of these things in my Monthly Summary/Year End post, but I tried to keep my points brief or else that post …
I decided to skim over last year’s yearly summary and it really sunk in how different 2017 has been. Where 2016 was a rollercoaster of good and bad, 2017 was a year of recovery. I feel like I’m in the best place I’ve been financially and physically in many years. What I did: 1.) This …
I decided to take a break from the chill and head down to Florida to visit some of my good friends to spend time with each other and attend Holiday Matsuri in Orlando! We made so many great memories! Day 1 I bored the bus very early in the morning after freezing my bahookie off …
Holiday Matsuri 2017 + Winter Florida Trip Report Read More »
It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where 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 a …
So Your Character is From Sweden … Featuring Katrin Berndt & Matilda Sjöholm Read More »
I love the Muppets. I’ve been watching them for as long as I can remember. I love the characters and I adore their brand of humor. They’re done a lot of their versions of previously-told stories, but my favorite one is the Muppet Christmas Carol. They took a famous classic story and gave it a …
Writing Lessons from Movies: The Muppet Christmas Carol Read More »
This year mental and physical health has become a big priority for me, so I was very happy that Sara let me steal these interview questions from her blog which she subsequently got from Leanne Sowul’s “Be Well, Write Well” interview series on DIY MFA! You can check out her original post on her blog here. Let’s get …
Lessons and Good Habits for Writing (and Living) Well Read More »
It’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where 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 a …
So Your Character is From Norway … Featuring Tuva @ Tuva Tovslid Read More »
