My Journey (and Occasional Stumble) Through the Woods
But not always in a good way! Funny (to me) story time: My 40s hit and I read about what to expect in this season of life, and yet my body and brain continue to surprise me as they go through wild changes. Last week, I couldn’t remember the name of one of two main…
With some cozy mysteries and paranormal stories. In honor of spooky season, I am once again grabbing a library haul of mysteries, finishing some mystery ARCs, and reading a few mysteries and paranormal tales that I already have in my kindle library. Below is my list of October hopefuls. Hopefully they will all be winners,…
Take time, I guess. The kids are settled into school and I’m getting into a groove of part-time work while still balancing all the adulting that needs to happen while the hubs works long hours 5-6 days a week. The item that has fallen to the wayside most often is writing/editing, but I am seeing…
And work! We have moved my eldest back to college, youngling just started his last year of middle school, and at the end of July I went back to work part-time after nearly fourteen years of full-time mom life. It is surreal but amazing to be in a new season of life. After my older…
I slowed down a bit with this genre. Just as in prior years, I grabbed a library haul in October for spooky season, but it was smaller as I was behind on some social media bookish challenges. I also received several NetGalley ARCs of mysteries and thrillers throughout the year. But after leveraging audiobooks for…
Discovering new stories and tropes. Well, let’s make it official… I’m a romance reader! I’ve always listed “fantasy, sci-fi and mystery” as my main three genres, and I particularly enjoyed books that also had a romantic plotline. But over the last year or so, I’ve shifted to saying “SFF, mystery and romance” to better reflect…
And I added audiobooks into the mix. It has been another great year reading fantasy and science fiction! Here’s what I’ve been up to since last July: Contemporary Fantasy Rachel Griffin – The Nature of Witches Sangu Mandanna – The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches Naomi Novik – A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate,…
This might be a writing slump. Last week I got sucked into Dreamkeeper (book 3 of the Dreamcatcher series) but… I’m really just rereading a story I love because this book shares so much about Lincoln. My editing here is not a big investment because my writing group has only just begun to critique it,…
Is better than nothing. I did some editing on Red Hour but I need to do more focused work on it and still need to edit the last few chapters of Dreamweaver. My writing group has started critiquing Dreamkeeper (Dreamcatcher book 3) and it is really fun to see them work their way through this…
But read queer all year. It’s more important than ever to read diverse voices, to spread love, empathy and inclusion throughout the world, and to drive action in allyship. In honor of Pride Month, here are my favorite queer books: SFF (Adult & YA) Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter world has many queer characters, but I love…
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