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Learn Your Weaknesses
I wrote my first full-length novel my sophomore year of high school. While my family was gracious and kind in their critique of it (because, let’s be honest, it was a very weak story), they couldn’t help but tease me about the number of times my characters bite their lips. I used the “find and…
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Book Review: Rogue Secreto
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis Marsella has the unique ability to steal secrets with one glance. She keeps her identity hidden, while going under the name Rogue Secreto. The emperor hires her to read secrets of his enemies, all without realizing this masked figure who can bring empires to heel is his beloved daughter. He…
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Remembering the Journey
I love reading the acknowledgements of a book. It’s a peak into all the people who helped the author through the ups and downs of writing and helped make the book actually happen. It’s a reminder that books aren’t written alone. So one of the things I do whenever I finish a draft of a…
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Book Review: The Ivory City
by Emily Bain Murphy publisher’s synopsis Grace and Lillie are cousins and have been best friends since birth, despite Grace’s inferior social status. When Lillie invites Grace to the biggest event of the century—the legendary World’s Fair, also known as “The Ivory City”—Grace doesn’t hesitate. Then: a murder. A young woman at the fair is…
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Keeping Moving Forward
Part of Newton’s First Law of Motion is that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. And while I feel confident in saying that Newton did not have writing in mind when he wrote his law, I think the principal can still apply. The easiest way to…
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Book Review: What Comes of Attending the Commoner’s Ball
by Elisabeth Aimee Brown publisher’s synopsis If there’s one rule Hester learned during her country upbringing, it’s never accept a gift; that’s how the Folk get you. Although she’s left her farm behind, she can’t leave her superstitions, even if no one else in the capital city seems to care. Hardworking but hungry, she’s looking for…
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If You Like These Tropes . . .
Just a friendly reminder that I have a book coming out next year. If you like these things, you’ll probably like it. 😉 Stay tuned for all the exciting bookish news!
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Book Review: Mammoth
by Brian McBride publisher’s synopsis Hardy Boys meets Indiana Jones in this new adventure novel. After the death of his father, misfit and aspiring paleontologist Tommy Rhodes seeks refuge in the ramshackle lighthouse that stands guard over the city of Mammoth, Washington. Left in disarray by years of bad weather, it’s the perfect place for…
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Book Review: The Crier Stone
by Lyndsey Lewellen publisher’s synopsis Brave the Plex. Unleash the stone. Embrace your destiny. Freshly freed from an earth-dwelling monster, Juniper Conway is stuck with a promise she never intended to make. But if rescuing Plex City from a deadly nano drug is what she vowed, it’s what she’ll do. Miles of wasteland stretch between…
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Book Review: The Springborn
by Carrie Anne Noble publisher’s synopsis An 1880’s coal town is no place for a girl with antlers. Once upon a winter’s day, a childless miner and his wife find baby Sabella in a mysterious basket. When she suddenly grows a pair of silvery gray antlers, they hide her from the world in embarrassment and…
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