Holy hell, Lurkdom! How did it become February??? I don’t know either, but time needs to learn to slow down. I have things to do, you know? Of course, I’d probably get them done faster if I didn’t read freaking 13 books. Out of all these books, only one stood out as five star material. EVERNIGHT by Claudia Gray. Blurb
The Flippant Girl’s Guide to Revising with Dignity
Fact: revision is part of the writer life. Further fact: Revision is fuck all hard. You can see where this is going. The point of revision is to take that amazing previous draft and make it that much more awesome. If you Google “how to revise a novel,” you’ll get over 12,000 search results. You can even learn some revision
The Question of Knowing Our Future and The Future of Us
It’s pretty safe to say that at some point in our life, we would give our baby toes to glimpse into our future or hop into the DeLorean to change some instance in our past. Hell, Bestie Danielle and I usually play the “I should’ve” game once a season. So when I read the premise of THE FUTURE OF US
A Walk on the Contemp Side
Funny thing about me and books: though I write YA contemporary*, I don’t find a lot that jazzes me in that category. In fact, I spent many years actively not reading contemporaries. Oftentimes reading is a means of escape, so why the hell do I want to read something that is based in reality? But, Alicia, you write contemporary fiction.
Face Off– Part Two
Zombie Thursdays is a weekly feature with guest blogger, Miranda. You can read more about her here. Hello, Lurkdom! Sorry for missing last Thursday. Like most people who work “retail” jobs, I have found that my hours have been cut as we enter the post “black” sales season. January and February are very slow and retailers don’t need as many