Be honest, y'all thought this was going to be a plagiarism post, right? Well, it is, but technically it isn't??? It's also not about me or anything that happened to me personally. (Cuz my audience isn't big enough to cause these kinds of problems.) The irony of this post is that it's about "Fan" pages taking content from creators they claim to love and then reposting it directly onto the page. Not a link to the original post. Nothing in the description of their post clarifyin

Well, this has been a hell of a week. I don't even remember the beginning of it too well. I just know that on Monday, I'd made the decision that we would go to The Island on Wednesday, as it was basically my only day off this week. (Mackinac Island, for those of you who don't know, is always referred to as The Island in Michigan. We have tons of islands in our lakes, but that's the one that matters most.) I've said this before and I'll say it again: The Island is my favorite

I have officially hit 150 days in my writing streak! (As of Saturday, May 30th.) (Sorely tempted to end this with a 'That is all.' and just post this, lol. Alas, I shall say more...) So far, this is an accomplishment hard won. A lot of nights, I've sacrificed time with my significant other in order to keep myself on task. It's been tough, but mostly rewarding. And I still haven't read all the new books I have! (Though we're getting closer to that Deceptive Inheritance review

Honestly, I would love to post something interesting and creative about writing. But it's been a long week, and I'm simply too tired for this. So here's some exhausted rambling: Every single person on this whole damn planet should have to work at least 6 months in the service industry. 3+ YEARS if you're going into "sales" or "marketing" for a specific corporation. (I will never forgive the guys who designed that CATASTROPHIC plumbing planogram for Ace Hardwares about eight/n

It is a fact universally acknowledged that your favorite quotes reveal a lot about yourself. Those soft, poetic lines that reveal your dreams. The more poignant sentiments that show your flavor of cynicism. Even the random bits of dialogue that will make sense to no one else, but tell everyone what your brand of humor is. They all intertwine in the tapestry of your personality. And it's beautiful. As a reader, I of course have a ton of quotes by favorite authors. (As a human

So, we all know how stories start, right? Something–a song, a book, a movie, a phrase, whathaveyou–triggers a scene. A thought. A 'what if?' question. And then you're off. There are people in your brain, voices in your head, and scenes amassing, begging to be written. So you write. Just a snippet here. A line there. Slowly piecing things together until you're sure you have enough to start with. Then you're off again to construct a whole story. I imagine that for short stories

Am I maybe, finally, hitting my stride when it comes to Demon Kin: The Lovers?? No. No, I absolutely am not. And I felt so confident when I first wrote that sentence. I was moving things along for the plot. Conflicts with other characters were about to be exacerbated. People were finally going to start dying. I was ready for it. Here for it. Thought I finally found my groove... Life sucks. Work sucks. This has been a shitty, shitty week. I want to fall into a hole and stay th

So I'm just stopping in to say that this has been a not good week. I've been very emotionally/physically burnt out in regards to work. Even the accomplishments I was proud of got overshadowed by the overall stress. Today has given me more stress and worry, so I'm not going to try to be cute and fun in this post. I'm still here. I'm still writing. I had ideas for what to post, and I'll probably start a draft of that, but right now this feels like yet one more thing on my plate

So, obviously this post is very overdue. You can blame #authorfriendJen. I know I said the next post would probably be a review of her book, but this one isn't because I'm on a time crunch. Honestly, between all the jobs and my own writing, it just took longer to read it than I was anticipating. Some pivotal scenes have since been changed, so I'm waiting for another eARC in order to delve into it as a reader and not as someone working on it. Which is always fun. That said, I

Okay, so last week I posted about how I got 3 new books to read. Apparently, that was wrong. Because, not long after posting that, #authorfriendJen reached out and basically said, "Hey, that book you read a couple of months ago that I speed-wrote like some possessed spirit, I'd like you to proofread it. Do you have time?" (Paraphrasing for comedic effect. Obviously.) And of course I said, "I will MAKE time." (That one is a direct quote.) Thus, I have a fourth book to read! Fo