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What’s Your Fiction? Young Adult, New Adult. What’s the Difference & Why You Should Know
Have you noticed an increase in acronyms when looking for a new book to read? Do you find yourself confused and frustrated by trying to decipher the alphabet soup acronyms that come along with finding a good book to read? Join the club! I’ve loved reading my entire life, and up until recently, I had…
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Autumn Romance Reads for Falling in Love
I am (not so) patiently awaiting Summer to get the memo that it is time to move on and for Autumn to move in and unpack all of its seasonal chills. I truly am doing everything that I can to summon Fall to my neck of the woods: making chili, visiting the pumpkin patch, breaking…
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5 Ways to Support Indie Authors & Why Your Support is Important
Happy Friday Bookish people! We are headed into a wet weekend in my corner of the world and I’m looking forward to making more progress in the book I’ve been reading, but we’ll see because the laundry is also piling up. I’d definitely rather be reading but I’ll soon run out of laundry baskets for…
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Indie Authors & Their Many Hats: Becoming an Expert at Everything!
During my interview with Erin P.T. Canning, author of The Aerytol Saga, we had a chance to discuss the many hats she wears within the literary community as an author, editor, book coach, Facebook group moderator, and podcast creator. As an Indie Author, she needs to be an expert at basically everything. With all of…
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Romantasy Author Erin P.T. Canning – Bringing New Life to Aerytol
Almost 2 years ago, I stumbled upon a Facebook group for beginning writers. In that group, I noticed another individual commenting on some of the same posts that resonated with me. Fast forward and I started following the Facebook group run by this person because I could not get enough of the content she was…
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Editors, Making it Make Sense in the Publishing Industry
Since embarking on this writing journey, I have learned a ton of lessons that I never would have thought about before. One thing I learned recently is how to flesh out your characters and understand their “goals, motivations, and conflicts” (GMC), and there can even be multiple GMCs in a story! That’s something recent that…
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Literary Careers for Those who Love Books
Senior year of high school has a lot going on. There is senior prom, making sure the ACT is done, college applications, and preparing for those final days in the halls where you spent so much time. From August to May, those days go by so quickly and one theme plays throughout the year: “What…
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For The Love Of Tropes
Romance tropes are part of what makes the genre so very recognizable. Romance readers can essentially pick and choose their favorite tropes and there are some books, novellas, fan-fiction, or something out there with their handpicked tropes. If it doesn’t exist yet, it most likely will at some point. Anymore, it seems like romance readers…
