As many of you know, I have a passion for prompts to spark my writing Muse. The last writers meeting's homework was to write a story using these parameters: Setting: A Haunted house, Character: A police officer, Theme: Friendship POV: An inanimate object. This is my...
As we are on the precipice of the New Year today, I wanted to say a huge and grateful thanks to all my followers. You make all the effort in maintaining and creating this blog so worthwhile. I am open to suggestions on content, so always let me know if you want me to...
So today we celebrate Jolabokaflod, which is Iceland’s Yule Book Flood. The name translates to "Christmas Book Flood." The tradition is the giving and receiving of new books, but also the joy of reading them together all day on Christmas Day and drinking hot cocoa. As...
I always enjoy finding out what my reading year looked like. Goodreads creates a graphic of your year's reading and tis is my 2024 (although I will probably finish up with one more to the mix). You can find it here The number of pages I read was cool: 11,620 but this...
What enamoured you to science fiction and fantasy rather than other genres? My parents were both librarians and loved books, and my mother especially loved science fiction and fantasy, so much so that she would read to me from her collection before bedtime. So, I got...
As readers we all love books and the stories they contain. Whether we have a favourite genre, or read multiple, the joy of immersing into other worlds, characters and narratives is the same. Many of you know I read multiple genres, because I write many, as well as...
Firstly, thanks for dropping by and secondly, apologies for my tardiness, I am on the last week of a writing challenge and tantalizing close to achieving the goal of (at least) fifty-thousand words written within the month of November. For non-writers this seems like...
I am thrilled to have been given the chance to talk about my writing this past week. Many readers want to get to know the person behind the stories, and how those narratives are created, so here is your chance. You can choose from an article, an interview, or a...
National Young Readers Day is celebrated during National Young Readers Week on the second Tuesday in November every year. The event's roots come from the "BOOK IT!" program, created by Pizza Hut in 1984 after an initiative created by Ronald Reagan to remind Americans...