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The Five Fall Favorites party is next week!  🧡🧡 All the links you need to find our fabulous bloggers will be provided, and I can’t wait to share my book recs with you!

seven short stories

It’s been almost a year since I’ve had a full length project to draft. Something all-consuming, outlined, that I wake up each day knowing I can pick up and work on. I’ve felt a sense of loss–loss of purpose, loss of characters to live with, loss of knowing that at the end I’ll have something […]

Catholic, but not actually

There’s this thing in fantasy, especially if it’s of the medieval persuasion, where made up cultures and their religions take on the vestiges of Catholicism. Priests, prayers, holy books, and traditions are worked into the story. There might be the odd friar or nun, the idea of a knight seeking sanctuary in a church, uses […]

my next book is not the one I expected

Sometimes I make writing plans, even going to the trouble of writing them out, and then mere days later they change. This often happens if I have multiple projects going or I’ve been stuck in a rut and suddenly find inspiration. Last spring, I had beta-readers take a look at my story “Letters for Victory”, […]

my cozy fall TBR

My favorite season is unofficially here, and according to my internal reading calendar, it’s time to pull out the autumn reads I’ve been saving. 🧡 Here’s a glimpse at my cozy fall TBR… I’m so excited for cooler days and my cozy reads. 🧡

Floral Grows Up // a short story

I’m ready to share the story that grew from my list of favorite things and some inspiration from what I was reading. I absolutely love the names I picked for my characters, especially the last one (spoilers) which J suggested. I hope you enjoy! It was still dark out when Grammy and Grampa came to […]

i enjoyed the seasons with the Heartwood Hotel

Instead of sharing regular reviews here (that will stay on my Goodreads), I’ve decided to highlight my most favoritest of favorite books this year. 😉 I’ve already covered a few, which you can find by clicking the “Favorites” tag. Found in time for autumn As I mentioned before, I found the Heartwood Hotel series by Kallie George through […]

The Great British Bake-Off fills me with such joy

Yesterday, I reentered the world of pastries and tents and accents and cute people who genuinely seem to care about each other even though they’re competing, and I am so happy to be back! GBBO season 16 has been lovely so far! Starting off, of course, with Cake Week, I loved seeing what everyone made […]

where do all my unwanted books go?

During my summer challenge of reading through my owned TBR, I ran into quite a few books I wanted to pass on, whether DNFs or otherwise. I realize I’ve never talked before about what I do with books I unhaul, so I thought that might be an interesting post for today. Here are the places […]

a reflection on my summer reading goals

My summer reading goals were: I’m here to report back on how that went… Between books I read, removed, or DNFed, I reduced my owned TBR by 38 books. I’m so happy with the progress I made! This book-buying ban was tough, but the focus shift to books I own ended up being so rewarding. […]