Review: The Blonde Identity

But all great art taps into darkness, and your most compelling work emerges when you embrace your full humanity - both light and Shadow.

Review: Writing the Shadow

But all great art taps into darkness, and your most compelling work emerges when you embrace your full humanity - both light and Shadow.

Review: The Farseer Trilogy – Assassin’s Apprentice

Robin Hobb doesn't take the reader for granted, and I really appreciate that. Nothing spoils writing for me like laying everything out completely for the reader or trying to remind them of things already mentioned.

Review: Divinity 36

As a former band geek and a person with audio-visual synaesthesia, the world building is absolutely wonderful.

Review: Déjà Dead

the perfect opening sentence, Kathy Reichs leaves an unmistakable impression of what life as a forensic anthropologist feels like.

Announcement: Awake Cover Reveal

I'm so excited to share with you the cover and blurb for Awake!

Review: Cemetery Boys

This book broke my heart and put it back together again in such a lovely way.

Review: Soulless Manga Volume 1

If you don't like excessively flowery prose, for which Gail Carriger is known, you might prefer this version of her series.

Review: Iron Widow

This book was exactly the book I needed and wanted to read right now. It is violent and cathartic as it screams at the injustices of the traditional Chinese patriarchy in a dystopian future.

18 lessons from 2022

I thought it might be appropriate to write down some of the lessons I've learned in 2022. Some of these are craft, but most of them are life lessons.