It's bad, bad, bad.  Sorta like some energy-stealing troll snuck in the house last night and carried it all off.  I was left a slimy slug and I had much bigger plans for my day.

Onward I trudge, and since I'm so tired you're getting the honest me today.  You know that person?  The one who lacks filters and blurts out things she really shouldn't ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a box in the mail.   I was planning to do so many things when I finally got around to opening it this morning.

Guess what was inside?


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Yes, right now you should be inside this world:
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If you're on my F-list and your book has hit its release date, or if you've spent time promoting and reviewing one of your own friend's works... this post applies to you ( Read more... )

Wow, wow, and wow. This one's going to be hard to break down. The things that stood out to me in this book combine for a total effect that really left me speechless. So, yeah, this is hard to do.

I'm attempting here.

I really loved this book. I enjoyed the Twilight Series and will continue to enjoy it, but with The Host, Stephenie accomplished ( Read more... )

No fear.

It has been some time since I've read a book that these two words popped up in my head. It might be because I read a book this week and I did feel the author was writing with fear. More on this later.

I've been living with fear myself lately. I have a dark fantasy I'm working on and I've been afraid. I knew I shouldn’t be, but I was ( Read more... )

I did a small recommendation when I read this book, but now I'd like to work on a review of the craft. What I took away from Lessons from a Dead Girl is:

No excuses.

Believe it or not this was the first thing I learned about writing. Never make excuses for your characters' actions. Yes, this can be argued, it can be dissected. But the important ( Read more... )

Today it rained. I got hit upside the head with a bad case of depression and thought not only my current WIP stank worse than last week's spilled milk, but decided the MS out on submissions was the total joke I feared all along it would be. Usually, I can't read when I'm in this kind of funk.

A Crooked Kind of Perfect  was sitting on my counter ( Read more... )

I'm not going to talk about craft in this post because there is absolutely nothing in Jay's writing techniques that resemble how I write. Except I hope to obtain such an honest nuance in my own writing ( Read more... )

Okay, here we go. Her series is an emotional series. To even try to compare it to a novel that is driven forward by action is wrong. It's not that kind of book. What caught my eye were the emotions. I'm going to talk about book 1 and not the following books. She did use this technique in every book, but really, there is no point in doing that ( Read more... )