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October 6, 2015
Good Girls Don’t Become Best-Sellers—Channeling Your Inner “Bad Girl” to Reach Your Dreams
Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
? I am currently reading Kate White’s I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know. There are bad books, okay books, good books and great books. But there is another kind of book and it’s the rarest. The game-changer. White has a witty, sassy style.…
? I am currently reading Kate White’s I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know. There are bad books, okay books, good books and great books. But there is another kind of book and it’s the rarest. The game-changer. White has a witty, sassy style.…
Startling Poetry… Sorta… In Mountains
Source: Startling Poetry… Sorta… In Mountains
October 3, 2015
Startling Poetry: The Peace of Wild Things
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and […]
September 29, 2015
Startling Poetry: Invictus
Invictus by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. […]
September 24, 2015
Originally posted on Glasnost:Untitled. ? When I was six ...
Originally posted on Glasnost:
Untitled. ? When I was six years old, I gave my first blowjob. “It’s a game”, said He. “Don’t you want to play?” It was too big, and I threw up on him. He said I’d do better the next time. When I was seven years old, I watched a group…
Untitled. ? When I was six years old, I gave my first blowjob. “It’s a game”, said He. “Don’t you want to play?” It was too big, and I threw up on him. He said I’d do better the next time. When I was seven years old, I watched a group…
September 17, 2015
Addicted to Stress: Some Things I’ve Learned So Far
Source: Addicted to Stress: Some Things I’ve Learned So Far
September 5, 2015
Drumroll please…
I’ve been wanting to announce this news for quite a while now. But I was sworn to secrecy! In August I signed a two-book deal with Lake Water Press. They will publish my debut fantasy novel In the Blood (due to drop this coming spring) as well as it’s sequel (due out in 2017). I am really […]
Startling Poetry: Home
Home by Warsan Shire no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border… when you see the whole city running as well your neighbours running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind the […]
September 2, 2015
Not Everybody Got Scars Like Me: An Interview with Sherri L. Smith
I’m so pleased to welcome the lovely and talented Sherri L. Smith, author of YA and middle-grade fiction featuring some of the strongest and most interesting female protagonists in the genre. RLM: If you could not longer writer (fiction OR nonfiction) what would you do for a living? SS: Hmm. If I couldn’t be a writer, I […]
August 28, 2015
They Tell Me That Is How I Should Be: An Interview with Sangu Mandanna
It’s been a while since I did an author interview. And this series MAY be coming to a close because of some changes in my circumstances – one VERY good and one not so good at all. But more on that later. For now, I am so pleased to welcome debut YA novelist, Sangu Mandanna […]
