Do you ever get so stressed that all you want is a little kid lit? No, just me? I asked for book recs for quick and fun reads for children and this one came out on top. It’s a quick and thoughtful book about time travel and friendship. It reminded…
I just found out today that Camilla Evergreen is just the side gig for Anne Stryker. Heck of a side gig, because these little romance books she’s putting out on the side are worlds better than most romances I’ve read, and I’ve read a lot. A lot. Just in the…
How do you write a review of something that has been part of your life from birth? That’s the struggle I’m having writing about Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. One of my earliest memories was watching the Disney movie and being captivated by the turning of the pages and…
On June 9, 2023, someone I didn’t like very much introduced me to MidJourney on Discord. If you’re not familiar, it’s an AI system that generates pictures based on text. I was intrigued, and immediately pulled up my mostly-unused Discord app and gave it a try. My first prompt: A…
What if I told you that there is a fantasy series that is 13 times bigger than all the Harry Potter books combined and three times the Wheel of Time series, and it’s all free? Yeah, sounds like fantasy, alright. The too-good-to-be-true kind. Don’t worry, I’m not selling anything, just…
I have friends who only read romances, and that’s great for them. My grandmom used to get a shipment of Harlequin romances by mail every month, and she read them a lot more than she did her scriptures. I knew it was fun for her, and I respected that. But…
I love books by geniuses, especially when those geniuses admit to being just as dumb as the rest of us. The main point of this book is that we all do a lot of thinking we never know about, and that every single one of us is lazier than we…
October 12, 2024 was the day I first read a book by Camilla Evergreen. Not significant in any other way in my life – I know, because I checked my journal – but significant because this author has completely ruined me for every other romance author out there. (Except Georgette…
There has to be something in the water at some writer’s retreat somewhere that is quietly, magically morphing normal humans into the best kind of authors. How else do you explain the emergence of Drew Hayes, Rachel Aaron, Dennis E. Taylor, and Scott Meyer all at around the same time?…
Full disclosure, I love Rachel Aaron – no, not personally, we’re not that close – I just love the way she approaches fiction. Her characters are vivid, unique, and relatable, even when they’re demons from hell. She knows how to make you care about a slacker dragon boi or an…
