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Book Review: Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
by Laura Noakes publisher’s synopsis Cosima Unfortunate has spent all her life at the Home for Unfortunate Girls – a school where any disabled children, or children deemed different, are sent, whether their families want it or not. It is there that she meets her friends – Pearl, Mary and Diya – and they start…
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Book Review: Of Sea and Smoke
by Gillian Bronte Adams publisher’s synopsis He rides a seablood, a steed of salt and spray, born to challenge the tides. Six years ago, the wrong brother survived, and nothing will ever convince Rafi Tetrani otherwise. But he is done running from his past, and from the truth. As civil war threatens Ceridwen’s tenuous rule…
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Book Review: The Winterton Decpetion – Final Word
by Janet Sumner Johnson publisher’s synopsis Hope Smith can’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton’s charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with…
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Book Review: The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree
by Lucille Abendanon publisher’s synopsis Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942. Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with…
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Book Review: Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity
by Elizabeth C. Bunce publisher’s synopsis When her governess inherits an estate on a Scottish island, amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle couldn’t be more excited. Unfortunately, the ancestral castle is both run-down and haunted. Ghostly moans echo in the walls, and there are rumors of a cursed treasure lost on the island—an ancient silver brooch that may have…
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Book Review: Once a Queen
by Sarah Arthur publisher’s synopsis When fourteen-year-old Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the mysterious manor house of the English grandmother she’s never met, troubling questions arise. Why the estrangement? What’s with the house’s employees and their guarded secrets? Why must Eva never mention trains, her father, or her favorite childhood fairy…
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Grab your headphones!
Have you heard? Yes, I’m intending a pun with “heard.” But what is it that you’re supposed to know? That I have a story narrated on the Havok Story Podcast! Ever since I started writing for Havok, I hoped to be featured on the podcast. And to my great honor and surprise, my story “For…
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Book Review: Spindle’s End
by Robin McKinley publisher’s synopsis The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the…
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Conference Thoughts
With summer wrapping up, the season for writing conferences is coming to an end. But as I think over my time at Realm Makers, I have a few thoughts on conferences that I want to share. 1. It won’t be perfect. Every Realm Makers I’ve been to has had its personal ups and downs—imposter syndrome,…
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Book Review: Wither and Bloom
publisher’s synopsis LOVE IS A CHOICE A diverse collection of flash fiction, short stories, and poetry, Wither and Bloom explores the choice to love through trials and storms in all seasons of life—from new loves, lives built together, and long-lasting romances, to platonic love between family, friends, and strangers. Within these pages, you’ll be swept…
Hailey Huntington 