Today is the final day of Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 due to the increased number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores, and libraries. … Read More ›
Books
Editing: A Writer’s Remorse
If you’ve been following my weekly rants, you’ll know that I’ve made the decision to do one final read through of my first book. For those that haven’t been reading my rants, let me explain in one or two sentences…. Read More ›
Review of Like a Sister
Book of the Month is a monthly subscription service that lets you choose a book each month. BOTM gives you five books to choose from and they’ll send whichever one you choose. I’m always excited to see which books are… Read More ›
Failure to Launch
Hello everyone. It’s been a while since last we talked. I wish I could say that I’ve been too busy at my day job or that I’ve been too busy with a social life. I wish I could say that… Read More ›
Initial Thought on Self-Publishing
On Wednesday, I accomplished a goal that I had set out to do back in 2019. I self-published a book for the first time. Okay, so I’m not sure you can call it a book because it only has 77… Read More ›
Which Witch Book did I like Most?
So, I finally read through all of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic books. I did it in a weird way too. For those that don’t know, the four books were released in a sort of Star Wars type of way. … Read More ›
Finding the Time
This will be my obligatory “rant about finding the time to write” column. It seems like I write something like this every year. So, if you’re not wanting to read something along those lines, then you’ve been warned. On March… Read More ›
Villains: The Ultimate Evil
The last villain type I want to discuss, for this current series anyway, is the Ultimate Evil. You know the kind. It’s the evil force of nature that threatens to blanket the world in everlasting darkness…or something similar along those… Read More ›
Review of The Maidens
Amazon Rating 4 out of 5 Goodreads Rating 3.63 out of 5 My Rating 2 out of 5 The Silent Patient was one of my favorite reads of last year. In my opinion, Alex Michaelides knocked it out of the… Read More ›
Villains: Family
There’s a reason why Disney movies like using the “evil stepmother” trope in their movies. It’s entirely relatable. Well, okay. Maybe not the whole stepmother contracts a dude to take a child into the forest to kill her, then poisons… Read More ›
The Writer's Apocalypse 