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Magic Mirrors Tour: The Seven Drawers Review

Happy Halloween, y'all! It's the one day of the year when you have an undeniable excuse to cosplay in public! Sadly, it's also the last day of the Magic Mirrors blog tour . . . but we're finishing up with an awesome book: Kendra E. Ardnek's The Seven Drawers. I got to read multiple versions of this story, and I loved all of them, so naturally I had to review the book for the tour. But we'll get to that in a minute — first, a bit about the book and author.

About the Book Gwen's life has been ab...

Magic Mirrors Tour: Overpowered: The Awesomeness of Biblical Retellings

Hey'a, everyone! It's Day Five of the Magic Mirrors blog tour, and today we have another Bible-inspired retelling of Snow White . . . but instead of being a sci-fi/fantasy/dystopian reimagining of two tales, this one sets Snow White in the context of the Old Testament era. I beta-read this book, and I absolutely loved it for multiple reasons, but especially for this setting. Other than the Books of the Infinite series, I don't think I've encountered another fantasy book that uses an ancient I...

Magic Mirrors: For Such a Time As This: Why We Need More Cross-Genre Fiction

 
Hey'a, everyone! Day four of the Magic Mirrors tour brings us For Such a Time as This by Heather L.L. Fitzgerald. This retelling blends Snow White and Esther with fantasy, sci-fi, and dystopian elements, which is a combination I never saw coming but am super excited for. That crossover of genres is one of the things I'm most excited for about For Such a Time as This, especially since I wish I knew of more cross-genre fiction in general. I'm going to tell you why in a minute . . . but fi...

Magic Mirrors Release: Blood in the Snow — Meet the Characters!

Today's the day, y'all! Blood in the Snow is out, and I honestly couldn't be more excited! (Or stressed. But I'm always stressed on Fridays, at least until 2-ish, so that's ok.) To everyone who was asking about the paperback: I'm incredibly sorry, but between schoolwork and some pretty extreme difficulties with formatting, I need to delay the paperback release. Everything is almost ready, but right now, everything in my life seems to be taking longer than I expect it to. Again, I'm immensely...

Magic Mirrors Tour: Red as Snow Review

Hello, everyone! Welcome to day one of the Magic Mirrors blog tour! For those unaware, Magic Mirrors is a group release of seven awesome retellings of Snow White. My own novella, Blood in the Snow, is part of the release . . . but that's not until Friday. Today, we kick off the tour with a new short story from Kendra E. Ardnek, Red as Snow. I'll be reviewing this short story in a minute, but first, a little about the book and author.
About Red as Snow
Rose is not yet seventeen and is the widow...

Want to read part of Mechanical Heart?

Hey'a, everyone! Guess what: Blood in the Snow releases exactly one week from today! Are you all ready? (Spoiler alert: I'm not ready. If anyone has a spare time turner, can I borrow it?) Currently, I'm running around trying to get everything ready for the blog tour, which means that normal content for this week is out the window. Instead, I decided to share some of Mechanical Heart, the other project I'm currently working on.



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Favorite Long Books

Hello, friends! For this week, I decided to borrow a topic from Top Ten Tuesdays and talk about my favorite long books. (I almost did a "Thoughts on Miraculous Ladybug" post, but I've only finished Season One, so I'm going to wait on that until I hit the end of the released episodes.) So, long books it is! As a qualification, I'm only featuring one book or series per author — so, if I want to mention all the books in a particular series as one unit, I'll do that, but I won't mention multiple...

September 2018 Doings!

Hey'a, everyone! To start off, I'm going to make something official that I've been doing unofficially for a while. Going forward, Doings! will be posted the first Friday of every month instead of the first day of every month. I hope that this will help with blog scheduling (since I won't have to worry about what to do when the first is a Thursday, Friday, or Saturday) and that it'll reduce my stress level a little (because I won't have to worry as much about not getting Doings! up on the firs...

Fall 2018 Reads!

Hello, everyone! It's officially fall, and at least where I am, it definitely feels like the seasons have changed. And you know what that means: it's time for a new season of releases! 2018 has been a pretty great year for books overall, but I think that fall is going to be especially awesome. There are so many great books coming out; I'm going to have trouble deciding which ones to feature! (Not that I'm going to let that stop me . . .)

Fall 2018 Reads!








1. Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan (Sept...

Why I'm Now Self-Publishing

So, I'm wondering: was anyone surprised when I said I was publishing Blood in the Snow a couple weeks ago? Now that you know, would you be surprised if I told you that self-publishing Blood in the Snow wasn't originally in my plans for the novella? What if I told you that I didn't plan to self-publish at all? Would you find that shocking?

Younger me wouldn't.

Two years ago, I was convinced that I wasn't going to self-publish, despite how many of my friends and favorite authors were going that r...