It’s that time of year – reviewing what we read and wrote in 2018, and looking forward to next year! (Please, 2019…please be something to look forward to.) The Highlights First, the juicy bits: the numbers. Books read: 84 Words written in fiction: 25,282 Short stories finished: 2 Novel progress:…
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After her run-in with a jealous warlock, apprentice baker Anise Wise can’t wait to get back the kitchen where she belongs. But thanks to her brush with death, the land of the living isn’t all cupcakes and marshmallows. Sugar Spells is the second in the Spellwork Syndicate series and contains…
Leave a CommentI received an ebook copy of thisnovella from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “Those old diseases can’t have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn’t be here to talk about them. They don’t matter. They’re never coming back. How wrong we could be.” Exactly how wrong we…
Leave a CommentI received a digital copy of this anthology via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. I love witches – walking stereotypes with black hats, quiet ones that blend in, ones that keep secrets from their families, ones that keep secrets with their families. Witches are women who walk their…
Leave a CommentSo many books, so little time…sound familiar? Here are some tips on boosting your reading speed! Read A Lot I know, I know – if you could spend more time reading, why would you need to read faster? But I’m speaking from experience when I say that a high volume…
Leave a CommentForging metal into weapons and armor is one thing, but when desire burns out of control and the media spotlight gets too hot to bear, can a commoner turned duke and his posh apprentice find lasting love? I adored this book – sitting in the parking lot because you don’t…
Leave a CommentAfter twenty-five years of single-minded determination, Marianne Gordon has finally achieved her ambition and been promoted to Principal of the Vesper School for Zero-Gravity Artistic Display. But her moment of triumph is cut short when she discovers that she must share her position with Josephine Knight, a celebrated zero-gravity performer…
Leave a CommentI received this novella from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “14-year old Darian was raised in an isolated village, resisting the King and his army. When his life takes a tragic turn, he ends up in the castle, closer to his former enemies than he…
Leave a CommentTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. As a general rule, it is far, far more difficult for me to find books I won’t re-read than books I will. I’m a committed re-reader. There are books I’ve read upwards of a dozen times. Scouring…
3 Comments“The humans malfunctioned long before their habitat did.” The edges and boundaries of human experience and the possibilities beyond them are the things I like best in my science fiction. I found these in spades within The Collapsing Empire, along with humor alternately dry and caustic, characters I loved and…
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