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I’m Doing NaNoWriMo + A Tiny Bit about My New Book
I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year! (If you don’t know what NaNo is, here’s a post I did a couple years ago about it) This will be my fourth NaNoWriMo and my sixth novel. And I’m taking a completely new approach to writing it. In the past, I have always outlined my novel. My outlines…
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Book Review: Orphan’s Song
by Gillian Bronte Adams publisher’s synopsis Her solo is a death sentence. Deep within the world of Leira flows a melody that was sung at the beginning of time by Emhran, the Master Singer. Now it is broken, buried, forgotten. But in each generation, a Songkeeper arises to uphold the memory of the Song against…
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Blog Update!
Don’t worry! This is still the same small corner of the internet where I post book reviews and sometimes talk about what I’m writing. I just updated and refreshed the blog! I realized that I hadn’t really done any sort of updating to the blog since I started it several years ago, and figured that…
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Book Review: The Winter Charlatan
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis A Queen raised in the shadows, and a Fraud Prince who needs her help. The sole heir to the kingdom is destined to sleep for a hundred years. To hide this liability, the queen left her cursed daughter in the care of a trusted lord, while taking his son as…
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Book Review: Into the Heartless Wood
by Joanna Ruth Meyer publisher’s synopsis The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters,…
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Book Review: Seventh City
by Emily Hayse publisher’s synopsis “Let me tell you a story that happened so long ago that only the hills and rivers can remember the time . . . .” All her life, thirteen-year-old Maki has heard tales of the legendary city of gold, buried deep in the northern frontier. But when her village is…
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Writing Resource: Adorning the Dark
Writing Resources are sort of like book reviews, except that they’re about non-fiction books related to writing! And today’s Writing Resource Highlight is Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson. publisher’s synopsis Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone. Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has…
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Book Review: Of Fire and Ash
by Gillian Bronte Adams publisher’s synopsis She rides a fireborn, a steed of fire and ash, trained for destruction. Ceridwen tal Desmond dreams of ruling like her father over the nation of Soldonia, where warriors ride to battle on magical steeds—soaring on storm winds, vanishing in shadow, quaking the earth, and summoning the sea. After…
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Book Review: The Means That Make Us Strangers
by Christine Kindberg publisher’s synopsis Home is where your people are. But who are your people? Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. Adelaide promises she’ll return to Ethiopia and become part…
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