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July 29, 2016
Poetry Contest!
Hello Everyone!
I am excited to announce that we at Go Indie Now! Bibliotherapy Box are hosting a poetry contest in celebration of our Poetry Box that is premiering in August! Below are the details:
Visit our book club on Goodreads.
Write an original poem that has never been published anywhere else, and post it in the comments along with your name.
The winning poem will be announced on August 31, and it will be featured in an art print in our September Poetry Box!
The winner will also receive an exclusive 50% off coupon to purchase their first Poetry Box from us.
Any and all poems are fair game! Please try to limit explicit content, however, as our poetry box is designed for all ages. Good luck everyone!
Much love,
Ashley
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July 26, 2016
Writing Tip: The Trap of Big Books and Long Series
Hello everyone!
I’m sorry it has been so long since my last writing tip. Things have been crazy with the Go Indie Now! Bibliotherapy Box, but I was honestly surprised to receive so many emails asking me when I would post another one again. It warms my heart to know that so many of you anticipate my posts, so I promise that I will try to make them more frequent.
Now that that gushiness is out of the way, today I would like to talk to you all about:
THE TRAP OF BIG BOOKS AND LONG SERIES’
Alright, here we go.
How many of you writers out there are striving to write the biggest possible book that you can, or the longest series that you can? And why do you want to do this? My suspicion is that perhaps you want to dwell in your story as long as possible and want to gain a large following, which is fine, but please consider what I’m about to say.
I have never finished a series that is longer than three novels (besides A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter), or a book that is longer than 400-500 pages. Why is that? BECAUSE OF FILLER. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to stop reading a book or series because it simply gets boring. When I feel that an author is bored of their story and is just trying to make it last, then I have to let it go. My philosophy is that I would rather read a short book that leaves me changed in the end, than a large book or series that I feel like I have wasted my life on. Less is more in this situation, as it is in most, and if you don’t have enough substance to your characters or your plot to fill out a book longer than 300 pages, or a series longer than one novel, then don’t push it. You want your reader to be changed after they read your work, instead of feeling let down and empty by the time they finish whatever you have written. One of the reasons that I think authors have chosen to strive for the longer series or long book is because of the Harry Potter series and how successful it was, and still is, but what you need to understand is that J.K. Rowling created an entire world with her story and characters, and she didn’t run out of substance. She wrote each book as though it was the first book, and not a continuation, and her passion shone through the paper. If you story is strong enough to last as long as hers did, then so be it. But please follow these rules when considering whether this route is right for your story.
Is your conflict solvable within one novel?
If it is, then let it be solved in one novel. Don’t drag it. No one wants to know what happens after “happily ever after”, so just let it lie.
Do your characters still need time to grow?
Then please, write on. Whether that means in a longer novel, or in a series, then please let it happen. But don’t force them into someone that they are not. If they have no story left in them, then your readers will sense it. Leave your readers amazed, and please don’t turn into the author who wrote an amazing first novel, but fizzled out the rest. Pack that punch.
Are you trying to aspire to be a certain writer, and are basing your plan off of their success?
THEN PLEASE STOP. You can’t force yourself to follow another author’s footsteps, just liek no one else can follow you. Make your own path. If you are meant to write a longer series, then let it happen and don’t force it. And please make sure that you story doesn’t echo something that has already been done.
Is each lose end tied up?
No? Then please make sure to write on and give each of your characters justice. Yes? Then don’t make more conflict for the sake of conflict! Your readers will know if a story or conflict has been dragged out, and more often then not, they will lose care for your story and move onto something else.
Do you foresee a new story that can evolve from the world you have created?
Then by all means, write another novel with another story set in the world that you created. But please make sure that it isn’t less than your first novel. Aim to make your sequels better than the first, and more often than not they will be. But make sure that you plot and characters have fully evolved, and don’t mess up the details you may have stated in a previous book. Readers will pick you apart for that, believe me.
These are some great rules to live by when considering how long you want your story to last, and I hope that you do choose to consider them. I have seen many great writers go under due to inadequate series or plot development, and I don’t wish that on anybody. Remember, always aim to be better than yourself, and you will be.
Much love,
Ashley
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Writing Tip: The Trap of Big Books and Long Series’
Hello everyone!
I’m sorry it has been so long since my last writing tip. Things have been crazy with the Go Indie Now! Bibliotherapy Box, but I was honestly surprised to receive so many emails asking me when I would post another one again. It warms my heart to know that so many of you anticipate my posts, so I promise that I will try to make them more frequent.
Now that that gushiness is out of the way, today I would like to talk to you all about:
THE TRAP OF BIG BOOKS AND LONG SERIES’
Alright, here we go.
How many of you writers out there are striving to write the biggest possible book that you can, or the longest series that you can? And why do you want to do this? My suspicion is that perhaps you want to dwell in your story as long as possible and want to gain a large following, which is fine, but please consider what I’m about to say.
I have never finished a series that is longer than three novels (besides A Series of Unfortunate Events and Harry Potter), or a book that is longer than 400-500 pages. Why is that? BECAUSE OF FILLER. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to stop reading a book or series because it simply gets boring. When I feel that an author is bored of their story and is just trying to make it last, then I have to let it go. My philosophy is that I would rather read a short book that leaves me changed in the end, than a large book or series that I feel like I have wasted my life on. Less is more in this situation, as it is in most, and if you don’t have enough substance to your characters or your plot to fill out a book longer than 300 pages, or a series longer than one novel, then don’t push it. You want your reader to be changed after they read your work, instead of feeling let down and empty by the time they finish whatever you have written. One of the reasons that I think authors have chosen to strive for the longer series or long book is because of the Harry Potter series and how successful it was, and still is, but what you need to understand is that J.K. Rowling created an entire world with her story and characters, and she didn’t run out of substance. She wrote each book as though it was the first book, and not a continuation, and her passion shone through the paper. If you story is strong enough to last as long as hers did, then so be it. But please follow these rules when considering whether this route is right for your story.
Is your conflict solvable within one novel?
If it is, then let it be solved in one novel. Don’t drag it. No one wants to know what happens after “happily ever after”, so just let it lie.
Do your characters still need time to grow?
Then please, write on. Whether that means in a longer novel, or in a series, then please let it happen. But don’t force them into someone that they are not. If they have no story left in them, then your readers will sense it. Leave your readers amazed, and please don’t turn into the author who wrote an amazing first novel, but fizzled out the rest. Pack that punch.
Are you trying to aspire to be a certain writer, and are basing your plan off of their success?
THEN PLEASE STOP. You can’t force yourself to follow another author’s footsteps, just liek no one else can follow you. Make your own path. If you are meant to write a longer series, then let it happen and don’t force it. And please make sure that you story doesn’t echo something that has already been done.
Is each lose end tied up?
No? Then please make sure to write on and give each of your characters justice. Yes? Then don’t make more conflict for the sake of conflict! Your readers will know if a story or conflict has been dragged out, and more often then not, they will lose care for your story and move onto something else.
Do you foresee a new story that can evolve from the world you have created?
Then by all means, write another novel with another story set in the world that you created. But please make sure that it isn’t less than your first novel. Aim to make your sequels better than the first, and more often than not they will be. But make sure that you plot and characters have fully evolved, and don’t mess up the details you may have stated in a previous book. Readers will pick you apart for that, believe me.
These are some great rules to live by when considering how long you want your story to last, and I hope that you do choose to consider them. I have seen many great writers go under due to inadequate series or plot development, and I don’t wish that on anybody. Remember, always aim to be better than yourself, and you will be.
Much love,
Ashley
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Backstage: A Boy Band Novel by Jacqueline E. Smith
Title: Backstage: A Boy Band Novel
Author: Jacqueline E. Smith
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis:
Melissa Parker might just be the luckiest girl on the planet.
She’s just turned twenty-one.
She’s best friends with The Kind of September.
And she’s dating Sam Morneau, everyone’s ultimate celebrity crush. Of course, no one is supposed to know about that.
As it turns out, no one is supposed to know about a lot of things that happen behind the scenes of life with the planet’s most popular boy band. Now, what should be Happily Ever After for Mel and Sam is turning into a series of secrets, manipulation, and potential heartbreak… Just in time for The Kind of September’s world tour.
Review:
Backstage is one of those sequels that you just can’t help but love more than the first novel. Not only did it present us with fully evolved characters, but also with an outstanding look at the early 20s experience. Jacqueline E. Smith knew how to portray early adults just blossoming into adulthood, and the pain that can come along with that change. She covered the effects of stardom on the younger crowd, and how it changes people and relationships. In the end, I didn’t think that I was reading about world renowned superstars; instead, I felt as though I was reading about my best friends.
Having come down from the high that is Boy Band, I quickly moved onto this tantalizing sequel. Even though I was reading more for the boys than for Mel, the main character, I was pleasantly surprised by the maturation of our heroine. She didn’t come off as the love sick, early adult that she was in Boy Band, but a knowledgeable college student/friend to superstars. We begin to see her struggling between her college classes, and the star experience, and it is interesting to see her trying to embrace what she thinks she should be doing, and what she ended up doing instead. Throughout the novel it seems as though she is ashamed for not doing the classic college experience even though she has become widely successful, and that is something that is very common in today’s early adults. We all think that we have to follow a specific path, or else we are failures, when that is not the case at all. She is growing into the person she is supposed to be, and by entering her first real relationship she has grown in strides.
In Boy Band, we were presented with a band of boys who gained stardom early, and thrived off of the fame and high that they got from performing; but in Backstage, their fame is bittersweet and begins to deteriorate their personal lives. They begin to understand how fragile their images are, and how relationships can be tainted by the press and fame that hounds them on a daily basis. Watching how they rarely got time for themselves broke my heart and made me realize just how often we all have to put a front on to try and come off as a certain person to society. But for these boys, they had to do that 24/7, and it had a huge impact on themselves and their relationships with each other. Fame comes between many of them, and watching their struggles made me feel for them and the road that they chose to take. It was in this novel that they came to fully realize that this road that they have chosen changed them forever, and they will never be known as anything other than members of the band “The Kind of September”.
Smith pulled out all of her remarkable writing tricks in this novel, and even though it was short, its effect was stronger than any longer novel that I have read. She has come to understand her characters and their story more, and she allowed them to tell their own story without much guidance. I haven’t devoured a book as quickly as I have Backstage, and if you haven’t picked up Smith’s work, then you are missing out on a complete literary experience. I look forward to reading the third novel in this series, and it has easily become one of my favorites. While it does surround a carefree concept, there were real obstacles presented within the characters, and those were what humanized them.
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July 25, 2016
Weekly Update – 07/25/2016 – 07/31/2016
Happy Monday Everyone!
This week I will be reviewing:
Backstage: A Boy Band Novel by Jacqueline E. Smith
Coral & Bone by Tiffany Daune
A Few Updates
August will be our first month premiering the Romance/Erotica box and Poetry box at Go Indie Now! Below are the themes for each box in August, and August 10 is the deadline to reserve your spot for any one of them.
August Fiction Theme: Dystopian/Post – Apocalyptic Heroines (A bibliotherapy session for when you need a boost of confidence)
August Poetry Theme: The Wandering Soul (A bibliotherapy session for when you need to be understood)
August Romance/Erotica Theme: Full of Hart (A bibliotherapy session for when you need to believe in humanity again)
Have a great week everyone!
Much love,
Ashley
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Summer Author Tour: C. A. King
Today I am pleased to present to you C.A. King, author of The Portal Prophecies series! You can find my review of A Keeper’s Destiny here. She is a fantastic fantasy author, and very passionate about her writing.
1) What is your favorite genre to write, and do you write across different genres?
Fantasy! If I can make it up, I write about it. My books are all young adult in language and content. If you are looking for Fifty Shades of Grey, I can’t help you. My books are more like Fifty Shades of Blushing.
Of course there is some romance, a touch of suspense, a little Sci-Fi and fully saturated with supernatural/paranormal.
I enjoy putting a new twist on mythology, lore, urban legends, fairytales and the paranormal.
2) What has your publishing experience been like?
I spent a long time researching my choices before choosing to self-publish. It was the right choice for me at the time. I like to be in control of my creative endeavors.
3) What is your advice to aspiring authors?
Just ask! A Lot of places are willing to help authors, especially local ones. Ask at small book stores if you can do an author signing. Look for small arts festivals. Contact your library about book readings. Talk to small cafe owners. Don’t get discouraged. No one is born a famous author. We all have to pay our dues on the road to discovery.
4) What do you hope readers will take away from your writing?
If I have a bad day and close my eyes. I can travel to a world where things are just a little brighter and get lost there for a while. I want to share that with my readers. When they need to forget about the present even for a few minutes, I want them to be able to grab one of my books and smile again.
5) What are you currently working on?
This fall the sixth book in my series comes out. That is the final book. You can expect a spin off series, but the main plot of this series comes to an end.
I have been asked for a cookies and treats cook book, which some of my characters may help out with. I am hoping it will be ready before December.
I have two brand new series underway. The first, Tomoiya’s Story, is an alien/vampire tale. The second Mer-Alliance, is you guessed it, mermaids. Both looking at 2017 dates.
I also have a blog of interviews which will continue and I am writing a weekly column for Books & Quills Magazine.
Find C.A. King Here:
http://www.portalprophecies.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ThePortalProphecies/
https://twitter.com/portalprophecy
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6993053.C_A_King
https://www.instagram.com/the.portal.prophecies/
http://theportalprophecies.tumblr.com/
BIOGRAPHY
C.A. King was born and raised in Halton County. She currently resides in Ontario, Canada with her two sons.
After the loss of her loving parents and husband, Ms. King was devastated. She decided to retire from the workforce for a year or two to do some soul searching. It was during this time that writing became her passion. She found she was able to redirect her emotions through her writing and in 2014 decided to publish some of her works.
Today her creation, The Portal Prophecies Series comes to life.
Book One, A Keeper’s Destiny, Book Two, A Halloween’s Curse, Book Three, Frost Bitten, Book Four, Sleeping Sands and Book Five, Deadly Perceptions are currently available for purchase. Book Six is scheduled for release this fall.
http://www.amazon.com/C.-A.-King/e/B00OSIL07M/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/the+portal+prophecies
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-portal-prophecies-a-keeper-s-destiny
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-portal-prophecies/id921907472?mt=11
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-portal-prophecies-c-a-king/1120416565
http://www.lulu.com/shop/http://www.lulu.com/shop/c-a-king/the-portal-prophecies-a-keepers-destiny/paperback/product-22598883.html
July 22, 2016
Boy Band by Jacqueline E. Smith
Title: Boy Band
Author: Jacqueline E. Smith
Rating: 4/5
Synopsis:
Sam Morneau is Melissa Parker’s best friend. He’s also a member of The Kind of September, basically the hottest boy band on the planet. After two and a half years, Mel is all too familiar with the day-to-day occurrences that come with being a member of the band’s inner circle, including hectic schedules, passionate fans, and gossip-mongering celebrity girlfriends. Now, with the release of the group’s third album just weeks away, their lives have never been crazier and Mel is doing everything she can to keep up, all the while trying to cope with the ridiculous rumors that follow the band everywhere they go and pretending that she isn’t harboring a secret and hopeless crush on Sam. It’s weird enough being in love with your best friend. It’s even weirder when the rest of the world is in love with him, too.
Review:
Boy Band is a novel that surrounds a juvenile concept, but pulls it off for an older audience. When I first began reading this novel I was afraid that it would be directed towards the lower end of the young adult spectrum, but I was happy to find that it was fit for my age range – those in their 20s. Jacqueline E. Smith took the concept of “bandoms” to the next level by having a girl, Mel, as the best friend of one of the band members, Sam, before they became famous. In this way she humanized celebrities, and I found myself forgetting that the boys involved were indeed superstars.
Mel was a highly relatable character. She was awkward, and always tried to stay hidden even though she was a big part of the band’s life. The story follows her as she struggles to hide her feelings about her best friend, Sam, whom she has been in love with for years. I could relate to her struggles with her intense feelings, and I was rooting for her in the beginning, but as the novel went on I became irritated with her inner dialogue.
Since the novel is told from her perspective, the reader was prone to hearing her lash out at certain characters, and then apologize profusely to the reader for how she acted. To go along with this, she also tried to convince us that she is not usually like that. She frequently found herself thinking about Sam as a lover, and then backtracked all over herself saying how she would never confess to Sam how she felt. Her humbleness was endearing in the beginning, but over time I just wanted her to stop apologizing and get on with her story. I also wasn’t fond of the ending as I always see cliff hangers as a cheap trick, but it did work and I will be going onto the sequel immediately.
Apart from that, I loved Smith’s raw writing style and how beautifully she captured older young adults today. I felt many times as though she were speaking from herself, instead of as Mel, and this added realness to her story. She incorporated all the characters beautifully, and none of them seemed to be lost in the cast. Even though I didn’t feel that Josh and Jesse had that big of a part in the story, she still gave them full personalities and I felt that they were jumping off of the page. Smith did a fantastic job of introducing the term”bandom” to those like me who never knew what it was, while also maturing the situation into a heated romance, and a drama filled fiction. Smith’s writing is everything that I wanted it to be, and so much more. I highly recommend this novel to women in their 20s, and I am positive that I will not be able to get this novel out of my mind for quite some time.
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July 20, 2016
The Book of Esther by Emily Barton
Title: The Book of Esther
Author: Emily Barton
Rating: 4/5
Synopsis:
What if an empire of Jewish warriors that really existed in the Middle Ages had never fallen—and was the only thing standing between Hitler and his conquest of Russia?
Eastern Europe, August 1942. The Khazar kaganate, an isolated nation of Turkic warrior Jews, lies between the Pontus Euxinus (the Black Sea) and the Khazar Sea (the Caspian). It also happens to lie between a belligerent nation to the west that the Khazars call Germania—and a city the rest of the world calls Stalingrad.
After years of Jewish refugees streaming across the border from Europa, fleeing the war, Germania launches its siege of Khazaria. Only Esther, the daughter of the nation’s chief policy adviser, sees the ominous implications of Germania’s disregard for Jewish lives. Only she realizes that this isn’t just another war but an existential threat. After witnessing the enemy warplanes’ first foray into sovereign Khazar territory, Esther knows she must fight for her country. But as the elder daughter in a traditional home, her urgent question is how.
Before daybreak one fateful morning, she embarks on a perilous journey across the open steppe. She seeks a fabled village of Kabbalists who may hold the key to her destiny: their rumored ability to change her into a man so that she may convince her entire nation to join in the fight for its very existence against an enemy like none Khazaria has ever faced before.
Rating:
The Book of Esther is one of those rare novels that takes a biblical story, and heroine, and transforms it into a book for the masses. Even those who are not familiar with Esther from the bible will love this novel, and they will enjoy the fantasy appeal that it presents.
Emily Barton writes with a strong historical knowledge of the time period and story of which she is writing, but she also has a firm grip on steampunk and fantasy elements. She intertwined fantasy with history in a way that was believable, and I fell easily into her world.
Jewish culture is often something that it intertwined hand in hand with the Holocaust, but this novel explored more than that connection. It clearly represented the Jewish culture in terms of the language, settings and habits used, and I found it to be the “grown up” version of Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin. It holds a strong sense of love and hope for the Jewish culture, while also applying biblical stories to more contemporary times. Barton beautifully explored the concept that men have more power than women, and she did so by exploring how Esther went looking for magic that would turn her into a man. She wanted to become a man so that she could convince people to fight for what is right, and it was sad to see how she felt the need to go through with this; however, she had the passion and the drive and knew that she would be taken more seriously if she appeared as a man.
Barton is clearly a strong storyteller, and one that incorporates an unapologetic love for the bible and the lessons it teaches. She also challenges certain concepts present in the bible, and isn’t afraid to mix them with mysticism and lore. Her novel preserves the Jewish culture with a modern take on Esther, and invites people of all races, religions and cultures to enter her world. The Book of Esther was a roller coaster of events that didn’t tip toe around the reader’s comfort zone, and Barton forced you to not only confront our past, but our present as well. She made it clear that our present is not as progressive as we may think, and by comparing it to biblical themes, we are forced to stare that truth directly in the face.
I am Esther, and like my namesake before me, I will save the Jewish people.
And indeed, she did.
*I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.*
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July 19, 2016
Joyland by Steven King
Title: Joyland
Author: Steven King
Rating: 3/5
Synopsis:
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Rating:
The shame about Stephen King is that his brilliance is often masked by his high sales potential, and that is where I thought Joyland lost. It appears that the Hard Case Crime brand hired King simply because of his sales potential, and not because of his craftiness with words. The “crime” in this novel was minuscule, when it was advertised as something much heftier, but the nostalgic literary fiction appeal is where King won me over. His brilliant way of evolving his characters and entangling them with one another astounded me, and I simply couldn’t read this book fast enough.
Those who are fond of King for his brilliant horror novels may not be as interested in Joyland, but this novel is an excellent introduction to King’s writing for those with weaker stomachs. There isn’t any ample horror appeal in this novel, apart from a slight paranormal occurrence, and King chose instead to focus on the early adult experience. He discussed how humans evolve through heart break and life changing events, and how a simple occurrence in someone’s life can change the complete course of their life span. Our main character, Devin, began as a young, heartbroken boy, but ended up being a strong, knowledgeable man. Having been in a position before where I felt that a boy was my entire life, and losing him, I know how it feels to question everything in your life and reinvent yourself. It is not a pleasant experience, but for some people it is essential. I truly enjoyed King’s insight on first love and how some people have a huge impact on our lives, and I would love to read more books by him that are simply literary fiction, and not centered on horror or crime.
If you are interested in seeing some of King’s best work, I highly suggest Joyland; however, I do believe that the publisher and cover designer did a disservice to this novel by trying to make it into something it is not. It is not a high quality crime, nor a horror novel. Don’t let King’s legacy and sales record fool you. People tend to write him into the horror/crime author corner, when he is much more multi-faceted than that.
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Weekly Update – 07/18/16 – 07/24/16
Hi Everyone!
It has been a crazy couple of weeks. Last week I was busy preparing July boxes to ship out for the Go Indie Now! Bibliotherapy Box before I left on vacation to visit family, and this week I am taking a bit of a rest. But don’t you fear! I am going to try and get a writing tip up this week as well as a couple of book reviews:
The Book of Esther by Emily Barton
Boy Band by Jacqueline E. Smith
Much love,
Ashley
