What can I say? I love Holly Black. Ironside is her sequel to Tithe and although a little too high fantasy for me on some chapters, Ms. Black still does a fantastic walking the line of urban fantasy and high fantasy. In Ironside we find Kaye, the recently turned pixie (well, she was always a …
My dearest readers! I know you are wondering where I am because I have not yet posted this week! Well….I am currently out of town visiting with family. Did you hear the Amazon Finalists have been announced? Pretty exciting for them. I am glad to have made it to the top 5% with THE INNOCENTS. …
And welcome to anything goes Friday on my blog. What am I listening to, what am I working on and what am I reading? Lately, I’ve been listening to the The Pet Shop Boys’ Discography again. I just love this CD. The whole thing. The entire thing is awesome. Song after song…hit after hit. I don’t think …
When I was five and living in Madrid, Spain, one of my mother’s friends went to the States and brought me back a sixty four Crayola crayon box. I was enamored immediately with the wonderful box of perfectly lined up colors. And they smelled so good too! I was a very organized little girl, and took great …
Okay guys, so the experiment is over. Sigh. I was right. The book didn’t grab me in the first twenty pages, and it quiet never grabbed me after that. First, let me start by saying that I LOVE The Hunger Games. Catching Fire, the sequel, I only liked. I felt the writer was not given …
Dear Readers, I am going to start a new blog segment where once a month I interview unpublished authors who are on their way to getting published by doing “the deal:” Butt in Chair, revise/revise/revise, polish, query, reject/reject/reject, polish some more, partials out! And pray, pray, pray! If you believe, you will receive. So “Keep …
Unpublished Author Extraordinare: An Interview with Beth Hull Read More »
Have you ever started reading a book and were like….I don’t know, it’s not grabbing me…and then it turns out to be the most amazing book you ever read? Well, that’s yet to happen to me. I can pretty much tell if a book is just not going to cut in in the first fifty …
Experiment: Rating a Book Before You Finish Reading It Read More »
Hello Kiddies! Some agent somewhere on a blog mentioned this book, and of course I had to read it. Feed was the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, plus an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, plus a Publisher’s Weekly Best book, and the list goes on and on. The jist? The future, and we’ve all …
Mother’s Day is right around the corner – what more perfect time to talk about mothering. When I was a little girl my mother used to talk to me about how much she loved me, and how no one on the entire planet could ever love me the way she does. Yes, we’ve probably all …
Dear Fellow Writers – I have to be honest here. I have read some terrible books in the last few months that I have avoided reviewing on line because I just feel like it’s not the right thing to do. Bad-mouthing another writer, no matter how ill thought out their plot is, or how flat …
The Do or Not to Do: Being Honest in a Book Review Read More »