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December 3, 2014
Book Blogger Confessions Tag
I don’t usually do these games. In fact, I haven’t done one in almost a year. I think the last time I did a blog chain or tag game was January of last year. But because I haven’t blogged much in a few months, and I’m trying to remember how to do it, I’m going […]
November 27, 2014
Thanksgiving, Ferguson, and The Hunger Games
Warning: This is a controversial post on a controversial subject. If you don’t enjoy having your assumptions challenged, please close this tab now and feel free to return when I’m writing about lighter, happier matters.�� Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Not least because it’s one of the few times of the year when […]
November 18, 2014
To Say Goodbye
“Sweet, so would I, Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing, Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night ’till it be morrow.” What a thing, I say, to say, Goodbye. You breathe petals into my ears, Hum bees into my heart. You crystallize In my fragmented […]
October 27, 2014
The Reaping (The Seeds Book 2) by K. Makansi
Originally posted on The CoffeeShoppe:
The Reaping by K. Makansi My rating: 5 of 5 stars After reading The Sowing and The Prelude, I was really torn between two characters I’d fallen for, right along with the female protagonist. Remy Alexander is put through the ringer time and again. Her resilience is impressive. The Reaping…
The Reaping by K. Makansi My rating: 5 of 5 stars After reading The Sowing and The Prelude, I was really torn between two characters I’d fallen for, right along with the female protagonist. Remy Alexander is put through the ringer time and again. Her resilience is impressive. The Reaping…
October 25, 2014
Harvest
Every year around fall I disappear from the Internet. My day job, which I love almost as much as my moonlight career as a writer, is in the wine industry. I work as a lab technician at a California winery, and fall in the wine industry is when we harvest grapes to start the somewhat […]
September 21, 2014
Central Coast, California
I don’t have a lot of time to do things right now, so instead of writing something meaningful I’ve decided to put up a series of photos I’ve taken of my surroundings here in California. I don’t have much else to say about this post, except that the photos are a combination of landscapes, portraits, iPhone […]
September 8, 2014
Journal: Recovered
To all of you who diligently supported my quest to have my journal returned to me when it was lost last month, there is good news (several weeks overdue): My journal was found by a fellow Southwest traveler, who is humble enough to have requested anonymity. The journal, it seems, fell out of my bag […]
August 25, 2014
What Happens When You Don’t Like A Book You’re Supposed To Love?
About four weeks ago, I took a book out of the library that I was supposed to love. A good friend of mine recommended it to me about a year and a half ago and it had been on my to-read list since then. Looking for one last ‘literary’ read before harvest sets in and […]
August 17, 2014
#StandWithFerguson
I originally had written out a blog post about literary fiction and publishing that I was going to post for today’s #MondayBlogs post. But then I sat in a hot tub with four other white people while the riots in a suburb of my hometown, St. Louis, rage on. While police shoot rubber bullets and […]
August 15, 2014
COVER REVEAL: The Reaping
Remy Alexander wants justice. After narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Sector only to watch her world burn around her, she will defy everyone to find her revenge. Valerian Orlean wants truth. After learning what evils the Sector is truly capable of, he must confront his past in order to create a better […]
