This is a weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. I read SO MUCH this week. But I didn't even just spend the whole week reading. I worked more on my academic piece comparing the works of Achebe to Dinesen. I did a livestream covering the evolution of literary criticism... Continue Reading →
A weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It's been a pretty hectic few weeks for me. For one, the dude I've been calling my husband for like...8? years now, well we're finally getting really married. Why did we put it off? Because it literally doesn't matter. It's not like... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDhCL3AreEU A video about character tropes, the romance genre, Breaking Bad, and more with guest CoHost Emily Hurricane.
Here is a recording of the live discord class from 5/14. We cover the basic of plot structure, how to character map, and how the internal and external arc of a story work in tandem. To follow along with the powerpoint and access other resources, you can check out the associated google classroom here: https://classroom.google.com/c/MzM1MD...... Continue Reading →
WWW Weds is a Weekly meme hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. I'm putting my WWW post up early this week. Because I have my Weds booked solid putting the final touches on a class I'm teaching in a Kindle Vella discord. Eep! I'm so damn excited! I really do love... Continue Reading →
Photo by Marcelo Chagas on Pexels.com The romance genre is the best genre. Just hands-down, the best. And this genre gets so much shade both from people inside of the book community and outside of it. A romance is only deemed “important” if you throw in some artsy-fartsy concept like magical realism and call it... Continue Reading →
Rachel lives in constant fear that she will burst into flames. She can feel the heat building in her gut. She keeps buckets of water under the bed. She keeps them to fend off the flames that her body may create. Autocombustophobia. That's what they say she has. No one will believe Rachel when she... Continue Reading →
Bloodlines is a series written by Emily Hurricane and it is like nothing I've ever read before. The best way I can describe these books is The Walking Dead but no zombies and all the characters are werewolves. It's an incredibly creative blending of the apocalyptic and the paranormal. The series takes so many fun... Continue Reading →
Weds party people! Okay, okay, we know what's up, but obligatory explanation for the new kids on the wordpress block. (Oh! and speaking of new wordpress writers, let me just take a second to shout out a brand new bookish blogger. My buddy Mikayla, a fantasy romance writer, wattpadder, and lover of all things ocean-related,... Continue Reading →
'When the Darkness' is a sci-fi collab story that I'm working on with Emily Hurricane. The book is split between our two profiles, with readers needing to alternate between our profiles for each chapter. The basic premise of the story is that the world is going to end when it is swallowed up by a... Continue Reading →
