Teaser Tuesday: The Towers of the Sunset
Can you see how the pieces fit together? Not just the visible ones, like the towers of the sunset, but those unseen, like the heart of a man or the soul of a wizard. What’s awesome about it The langauge […]
Second draft progress. Whoo!
For the past month, between work, karate and finally reading Divergent (excellent book, by the way), I’ve been working on the second draft of Hero. And although I haven’t made as much progress as I would have liked, and I’m […]
Revising Hero and the Pantser's Beat Sheet
Just after Christmas, I finished the first draft of Hero and since the New Year I’ve been hard at work on the second draft. Dan Wells’s 7-point plot system (aka the Pantser’s Beat Sheet) has been incredibly helpful during the […]
Top Ten Tuesday – Bookish goals for 2013
For this round of Top Ten Tuesday, I’m breaking my list up into two sections. The first section is for this year’s writing-related goals and the second are my reading-related goals. Writing goals I completed the first draft of my […]
10 books I'm going to read in 2013, promise
This year I’m participating in a few memes and the very first one is Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and the Bookish (which is a great blog title!). Aptly, the first Top Ten for the year is the Top […]
Pledged by Gwynneth White
Pledged, a paranormal-romance for young adults, makes a good first impression. The cover is well designed, the book trailer impressive and the blurb intriguing, however the story, while good, wasn’t great. Immediately engaging, with excellent descriptions of place, I felt […]
Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Bloodhound is the second book in the Beka Cooper series by Tamora Pierce. The story follows Beka, now a first-year Dog (aka police officer), as she and her partner Goodwin track down a group of colemongers (aka counterfeiters). Along the […]
Demon Girl by Penelope Fletcher
Demon Girl, an independently published ebook by Penelope Fletcher, is the first in the Rae Wilder series and, if you’re feeling brave, it’s currently available from ManyBooks.net as a free download. Originally released in 2010 the ebook is currently being […]
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
This is my first attempt at a book review. Let me know how you think I went. Cinder, the first book in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, is a retelling of the classic Cinderella story complete with cyborgs, plague […]