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Why Do You Love Reading?
Why do you love reading? It’s so easy for me to say that I love reading and books. But how often do I actually think about why I love reading? And I want more than just a “because I really like it” answer. So here’s why I love reading. I love reading because: -It let…
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Book Review: Cold-Blooded Myrtle
by Elizabeth C. Bunce publisher’s synopsis Twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle returns, and now she’s on the trail of a serial killer in her hometown of Swinburne. When Mr. Leighton, proprietor of Leighton’s Mercantile, is found dead on the evening his annual Christmas shop display is to be unveiled, it’s…
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Writing Light
Light and darkness. It’s something I think about as a Christian writer. We live in a sinful world. We live in darkness. And we need light. We need a Savior. We need the Light of the World. Stories are a unique way of communicating truths to a person and making them think about something. As…
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Book Review: Skin of the Sea
by Natasha Bowen publisher’s synopsis A way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata–a mermaid–collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home. But when a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi goes against an…
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Book Review: Fifteen
by Amie Woleslagle publisher’s synopsis You’re not alone. You’re not the only person who struggles with mental health issues, not the only person with demons floating in your mind. Amie Woleslagle wrote Fifteen because she deals with them as well. Not to fix your pain, but to reach out and hold your hand. To remind…
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Book Review: Torch
by R.J. Anderson publisher’s synopsis How do you fight fire without fire? When a freak storm uncovers the entrance to a mysterious underground chamber, Ivy and Martin expect to find treasure. But what they discover is even more valuable: a barrow full of sleeping spriggans, magically preserved for centuries. With the vengeful piskey queen Betony determined…
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Book Review: Nomad
by R.J. Anderson publisher’s synopsis Cast into exile, she must return to free her people. Banished from her underground home by Betony, the queen of the Cornish piskeys, young Ivy sets out to forge a new life for herself in the world above. But a deadly threat lingers in the mine, and Ivy cannot bear…
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You Need a Writing Community
We all, to an extent, have the mental image of a writer tucked away in some sort of amazing writing nook, writing away with a keyboard, typewriter, or quill pen while drinking copious amounts of tea or coffee. They’re just writing a book by themselves in their own little world. After all, isn’t that the…
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I’m Back!
As always, my holiday blogging hiatus ended up going longer than I planned. I blame that on having to get back into my writing routine and figure out a new schedule. I put my fiction/book writing over blog writing. But I didn’t forget about the blog in my absence! I’ve got a bunch of book…
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