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#bookreview: The Wind Catcher - Jeff & Erynn Altabef

This fantasy adventure series is steeped in American Indian culture and so much more.Winner: Mom's Choice Award -- Silver MetalWinner: Awesome Indies -- Seal of ApprovalRecipient: Readers' Favorite -- 5 Star Review
Juliet Wildfire Stone hears voices and sees visions, but she can't make out what they mean. Her eccentric grandfather tells her stories about the Great Wind Spirit and Coyote, but he might as well be speaking another language. None of it makes any sense.When she stumbles upon a s...

#atozchallenge: 2015 Theme Reveal #atozreveal

Because I'm obviously off my rocker, and because 83% of voters said I should join the A to Z challenge, and because I obviously thrive on stress and overdoing things, and because I suddenly thought of a theme on Saturday...


2015 edition: The A to Z of (mainly) Worship SongsWhy worship songs?Because these are the songs that have been impacting my life. I'll be choosing songs that have stayed with me through the years, have impacted me in the past or are currently impacting me at the moment. (Al...

#bookreview: Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by @selahjtaysong

Having read this through a really busy period, I feel as if I won't be able to do it full justice in my review, but I'll try anyway.


Dream of a Vast Blue Cavern by Selah Tay-Song
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Icer Princess, Stasia of Iskalon is convinced that she is close to finding V'ltruhst, a vast cavern from ancient legend that she has been Dreaming of. However, Flame King Dynat of Chraun, compelled by the Fire Spirit, has launched a war against Iskalon, intent on destroying the Icers' city an...

A random day in my life

K: lol God gave u 10 fingers. got so many piesmehMe: potato got no fingers wanMe: so obviously got too many pies dMe: potato going to become a pieK: backside

And that was.... a day in the life of Anna Tan.
This happens tomorrow, and apparently I have the second slot:

On a side note, what would you look for in attending a Literary Festival?

P/s - two reviews coming up, long overdue for launches yesterday and today! While yo...

#guestpost: Why I Read (and Write) Fantasy by @selahjtaysong

{Where we take a mini selah from book reviews for a guest post from the lovely Selah!}

The deeper I get into writing my epic fantasy series Dreams of QaiMaj, the more I’ve started to think about why I’m still driven to read and write fantasy. Last fall I had a kind of slump after I drafted book three in my series. For some reason, I didn’t want to read fantasy anymore.

I’m better now—I just finished reading Tad Williams’ Dragonbone Chair and am starting Kushiel’s Dart by Jaqueline Carey, b...

Young Adult Science Fiction Multi-Author Event

Science Fiction is the hottest genre right now. Add in some best selling authors and Young Adult books and you have an event not to be missed. So come celebrate these awesome YA Science Fiction Authors with us! Giveaways, book exclusives, games and more!

Young Adult Science Fiction Multi-Author Event March 19th from 5:30-9PM.

You can enter the big $100 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway at the bottom of this post! Don't miss it!
Join the event!The authors are excited to see you on the 19th but in the m...

In the fullness of time

There's this thing about the word "fullness". It sounds pregnant. It feels as if you're waiting. You're waiting for the stars to align; for a culmination of something - not just anything, but something significant. Something definitive.

And sometimes you think that it is time. You're ready. And yet, the time is not yet full; not yet ripe. You are ready, but you are not yet pregnant enough with the weight of expectancy, the thickness of glory or the heaviness of His heart that it can be birthed...

Goodbye, Terry.

Today, I is the sad.

Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.
— Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) March 12, 2015

I loved the Discworld books, especially the Tiffany Aching & Witches series and the later Vimes novels. It's sad that there will be no more.

Here's a list of posts I've labelled "Terry Pratchett". There are probably more which I forgot to label, especially in the early days before I started tagging stuff.

News article...

#bookreview: The King's Mechanic

The King's Mechanic: Beauty and the Beast by Katharina Gerlach
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The only reason Luna Ramirez isn't locked up in the castle's dungeon is because she's a great mechanic and the King wants her to fix the machine that the Royal Mechanic invented before he went missing. When the King crashes the machine and nearly dies, Luna finds herself in worse trouble than before - now she has to do all she can to keep him alive, both for her own protection and for the good of the kingdom....

#bookreview: The Legacy Human by @susankayequinn

The Legacy Human by Susan Kaye Quinn
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It's hard to write a review of this book without drawing a little comparison to The Hunger Games. Except that the goal of the annual creative Olympics is to choose the next four legacy humans to ascend - to become a human/machine hybrid that can live forever.

Elijah Brighton (Eli) desperately wants to ascend - just so that his mother can ascend with him and have access to the cure she needs for the illness that is ravaging her. Three p...