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Book Review: Between Two Worlds
by Cheyenne van Langevelde publisher’s synopsis Enid hates the Romans who enslaved her. Broken-hearted over the life she lost in Britain, she vows to bury her name and her past where the Redcrests can never reach it. As years of servitude pass, bitter resignation replaces her longing to return home. Then an unlikely friendship with…
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_____ Is Hard
Recently, I finished my first read-through of Brontide and started my first round of content (big picture) edits. Today, I hit the “I can’t do this” wall. The problems feel overwhelming. I’m not sure if any of my ideas of how to fix them are any good. At my current speed, it seems like I’ll…
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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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