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Book Talk 4/6/18
Book Talk…4/6/18 Traci Kenworth By a Charm & a Curse by Jaime Questell. Entangled 2018. YA Fantasy. Won in a giveaway! Amazon’s blurb: A kiss is never just a kiss. Le Grand’s Carnival Fantastic isn’t like other traveling circuses. It’s bound by a charm, held together by a centuries-old curse, that protects its members…
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Reading Links…4/3/18
Reading Links…4/3/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: https://libraryoferana.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/swift-six-author-interview-joleene-naylor-fantasy-paranormal/ I write what most people call urban fantasy (though my vampires are rarely in an urban setting.) Fantasy has always been my favourite, and vampires are so versatile that I can find a story to fit every mood. For instance, my Patrick novel is pretty much straight…
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Writing Links…4/2/18
Writing Links…4/2/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: 1. http://storitorigrace.blogspot.com/2018/03/monthly-summary-march-2018.html “March was a bit of a rough month. I felt like something negative happened every week, but I still enjoyed the plethora of spring flowers, especially cherry blossoms. I love cherry blossoms.” March was a rough month, April’s proving to be the same but it will get better…
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Book Talk…3/30/18
Book Talk…3/30/18 Traci Kenworth What I’m reading: Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King, Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, The Charm & the Curse by Jamie Questrall (so, so loving!), Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, That Moment When YA anthology, Writing Vivid Emotions by Rayne Hall, Jewel in the Mud…
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Reading Links…3/27/18
Reading Links…3/27/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: https://culturevultureexpress.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/spaceship-broken-by-russell-nohelty-review/ The book follows the story of a young boy, our protagonist Sammy. The story is told from Sammy’s point of view. Sammy has had a difficult start in life and has seen more pain already than most people see in a lifetime. His father has abused his mother…
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Writing Links…3/26/18
Writing Links…3/26/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: https://sistersofthefey.wordpress.com/2018/03/21/ascension/ “Have you been experiencing changes in your body and/or behavior that you cannot explain? At times, do you find yourself in the throes of anxiety or depression that seemed to have no trigger? Or do you, like me, feel a sense of urgency – a sense of running…
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Reading Links 3/20/18
Reading Links 3/20/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: http://www.talesoftheravenousreader.com/2018/03/set-world-on-fire-hero-at-fall-by-alwyn.html When gunslinging Amani Al’Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she’d join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn’t have a choice. Armed with only her revolver,…
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Writing Links 3/19/18
Writing Links 3/19/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: https://fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/begin-with-movement/ “Starting, once again, with the basic caveat that there is no one way to always do anything in creative fiction, and the advice I’m about to give is not meant to be blindly applied to every single sentence you ever write from now on, consider this: All…
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Reading Links 3/13/18
Reading Links 3/13/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: http://colleenchesebro.com/2018/03/07/fairies-myths-magic-2018-2018-author-spotlight-guest-posts-meet-elliot-from-the-fire-born-by-trent-p-mcdonald/ Fictional character indeed. Next, you’ll be saying that I believe in Fairies. Uhm, Elliot? Colleen is the Fairy Whisperer, you know. Belief in fairies is, well, we all do around here. Besides, you believe in some pretty fantastical things yourself. Just saying. Right, then, I’ll give you that some, a-hum, my…
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Writing Links 3/12/18
Writing Links 3/12/18 Traci Kenworth Fantasy/Dystopian/UF/Paranormal/SF: https://fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2018/03/06/how-to-get-middle-class-slowly-by-writing-fiction/ ““Everybody thought I was crazy. A writer, you know—he’s just a sort of crackpot. My wife would get some of my love scenes and read them aloud to me, and just laugh and laugh… And then, by golly, one day here’s check.” —Lester Dent” 2.4 million words…