Tag: books
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Boost Your Writing With These Must-Know Literary Devices
Discover how imagery, metaphors, and other essential techniques bring your words to life. “I could never write like that.”“I’m just not a literary writer.” If I had a dollar for every time a friend, student, or fellow writer said something like this… well, I’d at least be able to buy myself a new notebook. This…
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What to Do When Your Draft Isn’t Working
A Writer’s Guide to Not Spiraling Every writer has a few moments in the drafting or revising process where they stop, stare at the manuscript, and think, Oh no. This is a disaster. You know the moments I’m talking about: your plot veers off in twelve directions, your characters are suddenly acting like they have…
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Big News! My Book is Being Published!
A Dream Years in the Making (and the Moment It Became Real) It’s a Dream Come True!I was in the middle of teaching when my watch buzzed and I saw the flash across the screen of the email. It was first offer on the book I had spent months (years!) working on. I temporarily forgot…
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5 YA Books to Add to Your Summer TBR
Add these clean YA books to your summer TBR list! Ah summer. The perfect time to head to the beach or the lake with a cooler full of snacks and a stack of fun and flirty novels. As a writer and reader of YA, you know I love a swoony teenage romance. They’re so fun…
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Tales, Scales, and Tiaras Cover Reveal!
Dragons, Griffins, Chimeras, Unicorns… Join us on a royal adventure filled with epic quests, brilliant banter, and plenty of swoon-inducing romance. I’m am so excited to share this with you! The Tails, Scales, and Tiaras anthology releases this summer from Quill and Flame Publishing House, and I’m so excited to be a part of it!…
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6 Books to Read if You’re Serious about Writing
If writing is something you want to do, these 6 books on writing will help get you started. Good writers write, but did you know they also READ? Like, A LOT? In fact, many authors, when asked how does someone become a better writer, they often suggest two things: Write a lot and read a…
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YA Book Review: The Silence of Bones
Title: The Silence of Bones Author/ Illustrator: June Hur Year published: 2020 Summary: Seol is a damo–a female indentured servant to the police bureau, assisting the male officers with crimes dealing with women. When a noble woman is found murdered, Seol is thrust into an investigation where the primary suspect is the lead investigator. Set…
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Picture Book Review: Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!
Title: Take of Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! Author/ Illustrator: Andrea Loney/ Keith Mallett Year published: 2017 Summary: A story about the photographer, James VanDerZee, his journey as an artist, and his significance during the Harlem Renaissance. Review: As a teacher, I love this book. I’m so glad it exists. This nonfiction picture book tells…
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Young Adult Book Review: Sky Without Stars
Title: Sky Without StarsSystem Divine: Book 1 Author/ Illustrator: Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Year published: 2019 Premise: Les Miserables in space Summary: The book follows three young characters: Chatine, Marcus, and Alouette and the rolls they play in a revolution on a desolate planet, Laterre, in the System Divine.…
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Middle Grade Book Review: The One and Only Ivan
Normally, I would post a new blog on a Monday, but today is a very exciting day and a perfect fit for this book review. The One and Only Ivan is now a movie and is being released TODAY on Disney+, and I thought the timing was perfect! Title: The One and Only Ivan Author/…
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