Writers usually think about their hook when starting a new story. What interesting, exciting, or captivating thing can they write to best draw the reader into the narrative, to hook them? Starting a book with too much description, either about main characters or setting, is usually a no-no. We don’t want to bore readers with… Read More Description and Visuals
The Fire Queen releases September 26, 2017. It is the second book in The Hundredth Queen Series, by Emily R. King. It follows a young warrior queen’s rise to meet her destiny in a richly imagined world of sorcery and forbidden powers. Religion plays an important part in the stories, since the powers are godly gifts, passed… Read More Book Review: The Fire Queen
I have discovered audiobooks. Meaning, I listened to my very first audiobook last month and am slightly enamored with them already. I don’t regularly read more than one book at a time, unless they are dramatically different. For instance, if one is non-fiction. But now that I’ve discovered audiobooks, I will probably always be reading… Read More Audiobooks and Newborns
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