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Where are all the active booklr blogs?

boggymun:

Reblog or like this post if you’re an active book blog or just love reading in general. Especially if you’re a fan of the following:

- A Court of Mist and Fury

- Falling Kingdoms

- Iron Fey

- Crossfire

- Receiver of Many

I’ll likely follow anyone who reblog and/or follows me!

smorespeligro:I’m conflicted. I like the dynamic that a lot of so called Hades/Persephone AU type...

smorespeligro:

I’m conflicted. I like the dynamic that a lot of so called Hades/Persephone AU type fics have. I like it. I enjoy it. I’m all about it. Character A is dark and brooding and genuinely troubled and probably kills people. Character B is lightness and a sounder morality but not too troubled by darkness. Great. Let’s bang.

BUT 

HADES

IS

NOTHING

LIKE THAT

IN THE MYTHOLOGY.

He’s this chill and responsible dude who just happens to run the underworld because he and his bros drew straws for it and hey, he ended up with the underworld instead of the sea. He’s not a grim figure, or a sinister one, or a macabre one. He names his dog SPOT. Again: a chill dude. The kind of dude who does his taxes early.

So equating him with all these grimdark type characters–that’s not exactly right. That’s not right at all. The narrative is not Dark Dude Kidnaps Purity and Light in Girl Form. The narrative is not Her Love Saves Him.

The kidnapping thing–it’s not really. That was a marriage custom metaphor thing.

You know who was terrifying, in the mythology? Who was so dreaded that you weren’t even supposed to say their name?

Persephone.

Think about that, writing your AUs.

hey rachel! when are you due?

October 16 +/- a week or so :)

kata-chthonia:ONE YEAR AGO TODAY…I published Receiver of...

kata-chthonia:

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY…
I published Receiver of Many.

To date:

THOUSANDS of paperbacks and ebooks sold across multiple sites


80+ reviews on Amazon with a 4.7 average rating


490+ reviews on Goodreads with a  4.2 average rating

Consistently in the top 5%-10% of all books selling on Kindle.

I can’t thank everyone enough.

I do have to announce some bad news though (after the break)

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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY…I published Receiver of Many.To...

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY…I published Receiver of Many.

To date:

THOUSANDS of paperbacks and ebooks sold across multiple sites
80+ reviews on Amazon with a 4.7 average rating
490+ reviews on Goodreads with a  4.2 average rating
Consistently in the top 5%-10% of all books selling on Kindle.

I can’t thank everyone enough.

I do have to announce some bad news though (after the break)

As I’m sure you’ve guessed by now, I won’t be publishing The Thrice Plowed Field this month. And possibly not this year. I am very pregnant, and have been on doctor-ordered restrictions since May, and pelvic rest since July. One would think that this would have given me plenty of time to write, but simultaneously the baby has been sucking my brains and energy out and I can’t get the novella finished in time.

I guess that the creative process has become an inward thing as I create a life within, instead of the outward momentum I’ve used in the past to create a novel.

I may be able to put TPF out by the Winter Solstice, but given how things have gone and how things will proceed after the baby is born, that’s doubtful too. So I am going to aim for March 22, 2017 to release The Thrice Plowed Field.

Lots of people have asked about when The Good Counselor will be out. Again, I’m working on it, but I don’t exactly know. I’d like to have it ready for final edit by the end of next year, and released soon after that.

If there’s anything this pregnancy has taught me, it’s that I can’t make a bunch of advanced plans and commitments, and that my schedule is not necessarily the schedule of my soon-to-be son.

I will be more active on here with updates after the baby is born (three weeks left!) but in the meantime, please bear with me. That also goes for the last of the Kickstarter rewards. I am working on getting those out and I deeply apologize that I haven’t yet, but life (moving to a different town, baby, convalescence because of baby) got in the way.

Much love,

Rachel Alexander

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achillvs:if you ever feel bad about not being politically informed just know that king priam of...

achillvs:

if you ever feel bad about not being politically informed just know that king priam of troy in the book 3 of the iliad asked helen who are agamemnon, odysseus and ajax who have been leading a war against him for over 9 years

Destroyer of Light by Rachel Alexander

always–tan:

From: Amazon / FanFiction.net / her website has a million and one ways to purchase the book

Finished: June 2016

I have been absolute shit this summer. I’ve only read like two books since graduation and most of my days have been seriously unproductive. I think the Cursed Child midnight parties gave me a kick in the pants about reading. Except that I probably won’t be reading Cursed Child for a while, actually.

I don’t remember when I finished this, but I know it was before the 4th of July since that’s when I handed off my copy to Amelia. A lot of my re-reading commentary is written in the books themselves (since I gave her both Receiver and Destroyer, a lot of this is going to be my second impression of the story), and with how busy I am and how excited I was to hand the books over, I forgot to write an immediate report on both novels.

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quiksilvaa:I was re-reading receiver of many, and all of sudden i think of this:Jason momoa as...

quiksilvaa:

I was re-reading receiver of many, and all of sudden i think of this:

Jason momoa as hades

Brendon urie as thanatos (it fits perfectly in my mind lol)

Ashley graham as persephone (i know she’s a model but.. oh well)

Lea seydoux as hecate

Evan peters as hermes (always the quickie)

Chris hemsworth as zeus (worthy-worthy)

**i couldnt think anyone as demeter..**

Halle berry as lady nyx

Nick robinson as hypnos

And Robert knepper as sisyphus

And to be honest i do have a very active imagination….