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December 20, 2016
A prosecutor takes on a seemingly unwinnable case with a dark secret. [Book Review]
I came across this book by accident, and only stopped on the cover because of the author name.
Marcia Clark?
As in the O.J. Simpson trial prosecutor, Marcia Clark??
She writes fiction?!
…Yeah, okay, so maybe I should have known that, but I didn’t. So I had to get this book. I wanted to see what kind of novels a former prosecutor would write. And, honestly, the sheer novelty of it was quite a draw, even though I was skeptical that she could write anything… well, good.
First...
December 18, 2016
Lessons from a Plantser: 2016 was a big one!
When this year began, I had a couple of goals in mind. I knew I wanted to grow my readership, publish at least three books, and start some new habits that would help me toward my ultimate goals of being a full-time author with a healthy body and mind.
But as we know, even the best laid plans can sometimes go awry, and I’ve never been much of a planner anyway. So, even though I had a basic idea of what I wanted to do this year, I tried winging it… with mixed results.
Lessons from a PlantserOn...
December 15, 2016
The Opposite of White, Cis, Straight Men in Fiction with Author G Benson [Interview]
What first made me want to interview lesbian fiction author G Benson was the fact that, well, she wrote fiction about women who love women. I dig that. I’m a woman who likes women. (To my wife, who will read this one day: just you, baby. Just you.) And I love reading fiction that reflects my life, the same way other people like to see themselves reflected in the fiction that they read.
But what made me sit up and listen to her words was the very real “bury your gays” uproar that was made more...
December 13, 2016
The last thing a lonely woman wants is hired help… right? [Book Review]
Frequent readers of lesbian-centered fiction will likely already have heard of Harper Bliss. She’s somewhat of a legend in the lesfic world, and is one of those authors so prolific it makes you wonder how they have time to sleep, eat, or go about their day-to-day lives.
That being said, this is one of the first Harper Bliss stories I’ve ever read. I know, right? Where have I been – under a rock? I can definitely say now that I can’t believe I waited so long to start.
Olivia...
December 11, 2016
Happy birthday, Frank Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra, one of the most talented performers of modern times, was born December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey to Italian immigrants. “Ol’ Blue Eyes” was one of those singers that makes you stop and listen, and his acting wasn’t half bad, either. He died in Los Angeles, California on May 14, 1998 after a heart attack.
Today would have been his 101st birthday.
Happy birthday, Frank! Thanks for everything.
December 8, 2016
Three Things NaNoWriMo Has Taught Me: Guest Post by Emily Selleck
Last month, I asked a few of the peopole in my writing group for a guest post, and Emily Selleck was one of those who was kind enough to oblige. She’s a riot – fun, happy, and full of great ideas. This is her take on that most hectic and brilliant of adventures: NaNoWriMo.
Why NaNoWriMoI have been singing the praises of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) since 2009. The writing challenge (to write 50,000 words of a novel in the thirty days of November) has given me a lot more than just...
December 6, 2016
REVIEW: The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
As the parent of two neurodivergent children, I tend to read a lot about the ways our brains function. Some of this is centered around neurotypical (so-called “normal”) brains, but most of it is research on neurodiversity.
This book was recommended to me by several therapists and doctors before I finally picked it up. I don’t totally agree with calling my children, and other people like them, “out of sync,” because it makes them sound broken. And if there is one thing these two amazing people...
December 4, 2016
4 things that should have tripped me up during NaNoWriMo 2016 – but didn’t.
My experience with NaNoWriMo this year was a little different than it had been in years past. I started late with an extensive outline on the first book in a new series that ended up being short of the 50,000-word mark.
No big deal, right?
In previous years, I’ve tried a lot of different ways of going about writing for NaNoWriMo. I’ve been a total pantser who turned into a plantser. I’ve tried outlining a story in full before I started, but every...
November 30, 2016
Celebrating Your Writing Accomplishments: This Time Two Years Ago
Originally published December 01, 2014
Nailed It!NaNoWriMo 2014 has come and gone, and to everyone who participated, I’d like to extend my warmest congratulations. Whether you wrote 50 words or 50,000, you wrote something more than you had in October, and that’s to be celebrated.
For myself, I’m happy to say I made it to 50K. That manuscript isn’t finished by any means; there are still plot holes, and I have to wrap it up (I left it at the end of the climax), but I can say I do have a first...
November 29, 2016
REVIEW: Just Juliet by Charlotte Reagan
This book cover caught my eye right away. I love the rainbow and I love the obvious depiction of love between two girls. Despite being an out and proud queer, I didn’t read a lot of LGBTQ fiction until I was an adult, so I’m still catching up on everything I feel like I should have read growing up. That’s why, even though YA isn’t my normal reading fare, I decided to give this book a shot.
The coming out story that will completely change the way you look at love.
Juliet repr...
