Many schools are moving toward curriculums that emphasize reading nonfiction. While I agree that puzzling meaning out of text is a critical skill for students, I bemoan the loss of time reading fantasy....
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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Blurb from Goodreads: Sixteen year old Arelia LaRue lives in New Orleans where the music is loud, voodoo queens inhabit every street corner, and the ghosts are...
I got asked to review a couple books from new and upcoming authors. Now, these are people that have agents and have their books sold to bonafied publishing houses. I met them through...
I was talking to a woman the other day who found one of my romance novels I’m working on. It only had a few chapters available to read, so she Googled me and...
The Hunger Games 2012 I watched the Hunger Games and I have been thinking on how best to review the movie. I was so very disappointed in it. There were good parts, but...
What’s In A Name? When I’m fashioning a character, I don’t just call it a day after a simple sketch with some good qualities and flaws noted, interests and desires, backstory and future...
About Me I am 24 year old Business graduate living in the UK. My interests include martial arts. I have studied a few disciplines including Karate and Muay Thai. I have a big...
Greetings and felicitations, I'm Natasha Duncan-Drake (Tasha to my friends); I'm a full time author and publisher and help run a small UK indie press publishing eBooks, Wittegen Press. Please feel free visit...
I don’t hide behind the words I write. I live them. I breathe them. I am them. What you see is what you get. Maybe. As it is, I should think, with every...
Getting my book published is a dream come true…but it’s also terrifying. Like most writers, I tend to be and introvert, and the entire process of getting published has required putting myself out...
I sit here staring at a blank document, the day before this is to be posted and am still clueless as to what to write. What would you all really want to know,...
"Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it," Peggy Randall-Martin, author of bestselling "So Far Behind,” "Backside of the Mirror," and “Backwater,” Volume 1 of...
Discovery; not just a TV channel The most fascinating thing about writing, for me, is discovery. When I am developing or researching a particular character or time period I feel like Indiana Jones...
I'm Linda Ulleseit, author of ON A WING AND A DARE, coming this spring from Briona Glen Publishing. This YA fantasy is set in medieval Wales, in a remote mountain town called Tremeirchson....
I'm C.C.Cole, author of the Gastar Series, four novellas when completed, and two are published. The medieval dark fantasy stories follow teen assassin Shevata as she travels through the history of her home...
The Legend of Michelle Sands - In the spring of 1958 Michelle Sands has everything going her way. The pretty Howe Oklahoma freshman is a cheerleader, straight A student and minds all the...