My Favorite Tools as a Reader
Books are my life! I love to read. My love of reading comes from my mom who used to read aloud stories for my sister and me when we were…
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My Favorite Tools as a Reader
5 YA Urban Fantasy Books I’m Excited to Read in 2020
I'm a lifelong lover of fantasy books. I can't get enough reading about witches, dragons, magic, and adventure. There are some series and authors that I've been following who have…
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5 YA Urban Fantasy Books I’m Excited to Read in 2020
My 5 Favorite Magical Girl Animes
My Divine Warriors series is inspired by the magical girl genre of anime. Magical girl, or "mahou shoujo" as it's called in Japanese, is a popular style that has been…
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My 5 Favorite Magical Girl Animes
The Best 10 Books for Academy Lovers
I'm new to this subgenre of fantasy called Academy books, but I've loved books about magical schools all my life. From the mysterious wizard school that Ged attended on Roke…
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The Best 10 Books for Academy Lovers
The Fussy Librarian adds new content filters
The Fussy Librarian has added new content filters to their book recommendation mailing list, similar to trigger warnings. Authors can now mark if their book contains any of the following…
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The Fussy Librarian adds new content filters
#WeNeedDiverseBooks because
We need diverse books because when I came out as a teen, I found one book with lesbian characters and zero bisexual characters. We need diverse books because when I…
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#WeNeedDiverseBooks because
What’s Up Wednesday
I'm following in the footsteps of some of my fellow YAB Bootcamp writers and joining in the What's Up Wednesday blog hop. (I know I just posted my check-in late,…
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What’s Up Wednesday
Reading Indie vs. Traditionally Published Books
I've been reading articles about the potential of a bifurcated market in books right now. Some people believe that there could be actually two different groups of readers: those who…
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Reading Indie vs. Traditionally Published Books
Book Review: Fairy, Texas by Margo Bond Collins
Last week, I featured an excerpt from the YA Urban Fantasy novel Fairy, Texas by Margo Bond Collins. Continuing with the book tour, here is my review! Fairy, Texas by Margo…
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Book Review: Fairy, Texas by Margo Bond Collins
A Call for Content Warnings
In the past two months, I've had to stop reading three different books because they "surprised" me with sudden and graphic rape scenes about one-third of the way into the…
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A Call for Content Warnings