7/27/2016 6 Comments In the Spotlight: L.M. LangleyL. M. Langley is a first generation immigrant living in what she thought was going to be a punk town (it's not!). Her flash fiction story, “The Way It Should Be”, recently appeared on Blue Dandelion. If you think you hate second person stories, or if you’re not sure what one looks like, be sure to click that link! Her novel, The Whole Trying Thing, was recently released by Ninestar Press and she enjoys typing really fast with only two fingers, no matter what anyone else says. Because touch typing is SO last generation... Her favourite authors and influences are Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Stephen King, Gertrude Stein, J.M. Barrie and William Golding, to name a few. She says, “I write lit-fic because I think genre rules are hard.” L.M. is also working on a game/western visual novel called Talk to Me. Which I got to play the demo, because I am special. Check it out on itch.io https://boop.itch.io/talk-to-me Or better yet, become a part of the magic by contributing to the Kickstarter! (hurry!) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/836732297/talk-to-me-visual-novel
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7/21/2016 1 Comment Review: Fever, Tonya Plank (m/f)
Fever by Tonya Plank
My rating: 1 of 5 stars I would not have thought it possible for a writer to take something as sensual, sexy, and romantic as ballroom dance and suck the lifeblood out of it. First, this is not book one in a series, it is part one of a serial novel, and a very long, very tedious, very repetitive beginning it is. I know dance lessons are tediously repetitive, but a novel should not be. It took me three tries to make it to the end, and by the time I got there, I didn't even care that it was THREE HUNDRED PAGES OF BEGINNING with no story resolution. I was just so damn glad it was finally over. Tedious. Repetitive. The most boring ballroom dance story I have EVER read. A "how-to" NOT write a dance story. Okay, originally two stars (because I slogged my way to the very end, hoping for some sort of payoff. But now on review. ONE. View all my reviews photo (c) TGDavison Photography Patricia M. Bryce began her career as an author with the publication of a short steampunk story “The Soul of the Sky Queen” in the anthology Dreams of Steam: Gadgets published by Dark Oak Press, but she began her writing in earnest with fan fiction. Inspired and motivated by publication, she dusted off her fanfic and turned it into the original YA Fantasy series, Forged. But Patricia isn’t afraid to tackle any genre that strikes her fancy, from her coming-of-age romance Close to You to her upcoming alt-history novel Princess in Hiding. In her own words: "Someone asked when I began to write. The simple answer is that I've written stories as long as I've known how to put two words together. From simple tales of our day, to the more fantastical tales of the Fae world, and even the world of young romance."
Her favorite authors are Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Tolkien, C.S Lewis and Sydney Blackburn. You can find Patricia on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaisleyRose1 Or visit her site: http://patriciambryce.weebly.com/ Find all of her books here: http://www.amazon.com/Patricia-M-Bryce/e/B00U815USS/
The Whole Trying Thing by L.M. Langley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I gotta be honest—when I first started reading this book, I was baffled. I had no idea what was going on for far longer than I’d normally put up with. But the characters, setting, and even the author’s writing style engaged me enough to keep reading. The author interweaves the past and present in a way I found easy to follow and doled the story out in breadcrumbs of information that were just too intriguing to not follow. I also have to say that as much as I loves me some happily ever after/happily for now, I actually found the end just a teensy bit disappointing. Because I really didn’t like the main character, Lucas, AT ALL (which is to say, I RELISHED not liking him, and thus believe it was the author’s intent I didn’t like him), and thought he deserved to lose everything. In spite of that, I have to give the story four stars, mostly because I couldn’t put it down. And I really loved Issam. Though be warned, this author doesn’t give us any perfect characters, there’s a great deal to go “hmm” about with all of them. I don’t know I’d call it a romance, really—it lacks the fantastical, feel-good elements of a traditional romance—but it’s definitely a m/m story worth reading. View all my reviews OMG, that's two good reviews IN A ROW! Somebody get me a food taster, they must be slipping me something... 7/3/2016 1 Comment In the Spotlight: Asa LinehanAsa Linehan was born in New York. She lives in Maryland with her husband and children. Asa’s flash fiction “Unintended” was recently published in a literary magazine called “Ripen the Page,” which you can read here:
http://www.thepagereader.com/blog/unintended/#.V2gWzj0ezgk.twitter Her favorite writers are Paulo Coelho, Jorge Amado, and Sylvia Plath. Asa has a strong and active presence on Facebook and she is very cheerful and supportive of her fellow writers. Check her out at https://www.facebook.com/AsaLinehan When she’s not working on her novel, she can also be found on Instagram and Twitter! Also, enjoy this random image from the campground... |
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