I wish I'd had more media available to tell me this. I wish someone had known that someone like me would need to know that I was not wrong, dirty, or bad. That my feelings were perfectly normal.
ARC Review – The Stories Stars Tell by C.L. Walters
ARC Reviews!
The ARC reviews for Blood of the True Believer are starting to trickle in, with release day ONLY NINE DAYS AWAY! Can you tell I'm excited?
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Review—Woke Up Dead by Nadia Gilkes
You ever pick up a book so fast based on the elevator pitch alone? That's exactly what I did when I saw the blurb for Nadia Gilkes' Woke Up Dead.
Review—The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
If you enjoy horror, this is a great psychological slasher that keeps tension building upon tension. Give it a chance, and may it be your gateway to Indigenous spec-fic!
Tomorrow! Live Reading and Author Talk
Join me and SeaWitch Books tomorrow, July 16th at 5PM Eastern Time/11AM Hawai'i Time, for a live reading and author talk about BLOOD OF THE TRUE BELIEVER. Event is via Zoom. More info below the cut.
Review—Bay of Sirens by Lauren Sanatra
This Fantasy Romance does many things that more professionally published authors have failed to give me, and a good number of those things have to do with the protagonist, Maddie. As I said in my Goodreads review of this title, Sanatra has removed many of the elements that frustrated me with Bella Swan in TWILIGHT, or rather, the way her wants and desires were treated in the text by the author and the surrounding characters.
Hark! A Playlist!
Today's Camp NaNo or Not prompt was a playlist for your novel. Don't judge me. Or do, IDC.
ARC Review—Mask by Andrea Fink
In telling Emily's story, author Andrea Fink has pulled off some plot elements that impressed and entertained me in a richly layered world, with intricate rules and politics.
Author Interview at Lauren Marie’s Musings
Lauren Marie, the great mind behind The Indigo Books on Instagram, interviewed me about Blood of the True Believer.