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TIM BURTON'S NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Disney

 

Disney Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas by Sally Morgan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I LOVE The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's a movie we watch annually. Sometimes during Halloween, sometimes during Christmas, and other times, during both seasons. 🎃🎄

I adore everything about it. The way the dark and gritty look of Halloween Town and it's strange residents contrasts the brightness and cheer of Christmas Town. The variety and unique look of each character. The story that links them all togethe...

HIDDEN PICTURES by Jason Rekulak

 

Mallory is delighted to have a new job looking after gorgeous four-year-old, Teddy. She's been sober for a year and a half and she's sure her new nannying role in the affluent suburbs will help keep her on the straight and narrow.
That is until Teddy starts to draw disturbing pictures of his imaginary friend, Anya. It is quite clear to Mallory and to Teddy's parents, even in his crude childlike style, that the woman Teddy is drawing in his pictures is dead.
Teddy's crayons are confiscated, and hi...

A DOWRY OF BLOOD by S. T. Gibson

 This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. . .

A deliciously dark retelling of Dracula, A Dowry of Blood is a sensual story of obsession, desire and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. 
Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes th...

FAIRY TALE by Stephen King

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink....

PERFECT BLUE by Yoshikazu Takeuchi

 

Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis by Yoshikazu Takeuchi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Several years ago, my daughter was going to get rid of this book because she didn't like it as much as the movie and she asked if I was interested in checking it out, I said 'yes'. I mean, I enjoyed the movie too. 🙂

Kirigoe Mima is a pop idol who embodies purity and innocence. But after years of doing the same thing, she's ready for a sexier change. Except, not all her fans are happy with this change, and one part...

BONESET & FEATHERS by Gwendolyn Kiste

 

Boneset & Feathers by Gwendolyn Kiste
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow. This story turned out to be quite the dark fairy tale, and I was hooked from beginning to end.

Odette lives in a village full of people who don't want her there because they're scared she's a witch. Yet, all she's done for five years is stay away from everyone and bury her magic so deep within, she can barely cast a single spell. But when the birds fall from the sky, everything changes and it won't be long before the witchfinders r...

CRIME SCENE by Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than the world, her siren song insinuates itself past our defenses, past the hardened calluses and apathy we’ve erected to protect ourselves from the everyday horror of another missing girl.
Pelayo relates the familiar story, poem by poem; a body is found, a brutal crime investigated, clues take us in cir...

My Revision Plan is Finally Over...

 

Last year, while working on the edit for WALL OF DOLLS , I decided it was time to put a Revision Plan together...
It took me well over a year to complete this goal. I started in April 2021 and finished September 2022.

The plan was long and involved a lot of hard work, but I committed because I believed in the variety of novels I'd cared enough to write in the first place. The first draft word counts varied from 50k to 78k and were mostly written between 2017-2019. There were nine to tackle. Except...

Revision Time!

Hey! Long time no blog, huh?
So, how are you? What's new? What have you been up to? 😁

After getting several revision drafts done in a row, I decided to take most of August off, and spent it with my awesome husband while he was between jobs. It was a lovely break and prepared me for the final Revision Project. Yay.

This time I tackled a YA horror novel that deals with urban legends/myths, but has a demonic twist. I really enjoyed writing the first draft of Urban back in 2017, so I was looking forwar...

THE LENORMAND FORTUNE-TELLING CARDSby Harald Josten

 

The Lenormand Fortune-telling Cards: The Legendary 18th-Century Oracle by Harald Josten
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Okay, this is another deck we picked up during pre-Covid sales in a bookstore. It's more Oracle deck than tarot, but I love the artwork. The writing on the actual cards isn't great. It's not a problem, but you know, it kinda pushes the focus of the illustrations to the bottom.

The guide book is cool, though.

I'm glad to have this in my collection. 😁 

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