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Latest Reviews!
2022
- Silverblood (Jamie Foley)
- A Most Irregular Prophecy (Ness Kingsley)
- Songflight (Michelle M. Bruhn)
- Watson and Holmes (E.B. Dawson)
- Death Warden (C.J. Stilling)
- Beyond Her Calling (Kellyn Roth)
- World Diver (Haylie Hanson)
- Wraithwood (Alyssa Roat)
- Timely: A Phoenix Fiction Anthology
- In the Land of the Everliving + In the Kingdom of All Tomorrows (Stephen R. Lawhead)
- Dana Illwind and War’s Shadow (Arthur Daigle)
- Kate’s Informant (Sarah Holman)
- Truesilver (DJ Edwardson)
2021
- The Nature of a Lady (Roseanna M. White)
- Sing to Me of Rain (E.B. Dawson)
- Between Two Worlds (Cheyenne van Langevelde)
- Traitor (Laurie Lucking)
- Of Myth and Monster (Phoenix Fiction Writers)
- Pangur Ban, the White Cat (Fay Sampson)
- Dana Illwind and Growing Shadows (Arthur Daigle)
- The Icarus Aftermath (Arielle M. Bailey)
- Blood of the Seer (C.M. Banschbach)
- Into the Heartless Wood (Joanna Ruth Meyer)
2020
- Ahab (E.B. Dawson)
- Sword of Soter (Ralene Burke)
- The Road to Bremen audiobook (Kelsey Bryant)
- The Midnight Show (Sarah Pennington)
- Mardan’s Anointed (Kathrese McKee)
- An Echo of the Fae (Jenelle Leanne Schmidt)
- Beast of the Night (E. E. Rawls)
- The Story Hunter (Lindsay A. Franklin)
- Winter Spell (Claire M. Banschbach)
- The New Emperor’s Concerto (Hazel B. West)
- Emberhawk (Jamie Foley)
- In the Region of the Summer Stars (Stephen R. Lawhead)
- Beyond the Shadowed Earth (Joanna Ruth Meyer)
- Fairest Son (H.S.J. Williams)
- Strange Waters Anthology (Phoenix Fiction Writers)
- Cry of the Raven (Morgan L. Busse)
Recent Posts
- Book Review: William Bradshaw, King of the Goblins (by Arthur Daigle)
- 300 posts/7 years! “You may tell a tale . . .” (A Quote)
- Silverblood by Jamie Foley (Review)
- A Most Irregular Prophecy by Ness Kingsley (Review)
- Songflight by Michelle M. Bruhn (Review)
- Watson and Holmes by E. B. Dawson (Review)
- Death Warden by C. J. Stilling (Review)
- Beyond Her Calling by Kellyn Roth (Review)
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Latest Posts on My Writing Blog: The Road of a Writer
A Poem: Shatter, Juggle, Human
Heya, blogosphere. Just a poem today. It’s the same in the graphics and in the text, so it can be read either way — you can either read the graphics or scroll past them to the text. 🙂 Thanks for reading. ❤ dear everyonei have let down: i am sorry for that email i didn’t […]
9-Year Blogiversary + Giveaway!
Nine years ago, on September 9th, 2013, I created my first blog — namely this one! It’s true I have another one and also that my posting has been nearly nonexistent on both of them this last year, but I still have a huge soft spot for this li’l original blog of mine! So I […]
Funnest Films/Shows I Watched Last Year
Today, something random! Because I haven’t posted in almost literally forever, and I found this in my drafts and thought I’d finish it and share it. (A wizard is never late — my new blogging tagline for when I vanish for months. ;)) My movie and show watching is super varied and one of the […]
8-Year Blogiversary + Random Search Terms Answered
Happy 8-year blogiversary to my li’l ol’ blog! Eight years seems so long ago and yet at the same time it feels like I’ve been blogging even longer . . . just not much recently. XD Still, 350 posts (351 now!) isn’t bad. Anyway, I had plans to do something fun/exciting for this but haven’t […]
Dear Past Writer-Self
13 years ago today, I finished writing my first novel. Heyo, blog! It’s been a minute. Not having written in ages makes maintaining a writing blog, well, like a frying pan: hard. Who knew, right? Anyway, August 31 is a special day, since in 2008, on that date, I finished my very first full-length novel. […]

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