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“…Rachel A. Brune writes with butterfly-knife dexterity: Always a flashy cut, a dreadful twist, a sideways chance at hope.” ~Randy Brown, co-editor of Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War
Category Archives: On the Shelf
10 Gifts to Get a Writer for Valentine’s Day
Ten (actually, more than ten) gift ideas for writers for Valentine’s Day (which are actually just things I’ve got on my Amazon wish list…) Continue reading
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Tagged gifts, indie author, reading, Valentine, writing
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Sisyphus runs my inbox…
Seriously, I feel like the more messages and emails and texts and message and emails and whatsapps and notifications I check off the old to-do list, the farther and farther behind I lag. While I’m working on clearing some projects … Continue reading
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New mic, that’s who…
In answer to the question, of course, “New mic, who dis?” Here, let me show you: I was reading Podcasting Made Simple by Daniel Larson to learn some ways to approach developing, producing, and promoting a show, and in that … Continue reading
Dusting Myself Off and Getting Back in the Fight
…when I wrote down my intentions for the new year, I included the fact that I wanted to do a podcast. And now…I am setting up for two. Continue reading
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Tagged indie author, milblogger, reading, writing
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On the Shelf: Fae, Fae, and more Fae!
I ripped through that and then, on Tuesday had to send [the author] a message asking where the next book is… ANYWAY, that is the blessing and curse of being a voracious reader. Continue reading
Back On the Shelf!
This year, I’ve realized, I’m not getting any younger, and so I subscribed to a half a dozen gardening, herbalism, and green/plant witch podcasts, bought a bunch of books on herbalism, gardening, and the like, picked up a bunch of garden stuff like soil and fabric pots and seeds and plants, and got started on learning how to do this stuff. Continue reading
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Tagged green witch, plants, reading, writing
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On the Shelf: Down a (Grim)Dark Alley
I’ve been diving down the dark fantasy rabbit hole, immersing myself in grim settings and antiheroes. If you’ve got a penchant for dirty deeds and dirty … well, people who live in a storage unit, you really should check out… Continue reading
On the Shelf: Back On the Shelf
In 2022, I have set myself a goal to read 160 books. I was thinking about sticking with 150, but I like setting a little higher challenge for myself. If you’d like to hang out with me over on Goodreads, and want to recommend a good book, please do! My reading tastes are pretty eclectic, but I do tend to go all in for urban fantasy and horror. Continue reading
On the Shelf: Dusting Off the Shelf
Hey, Poul Anderson and Mercedes Lackey and and Patricia McKillip and Tanya Huff and Anne McCaffrey and books with spaceships on the covers and books with dragons and fancy fantasy font on the covers and books that are the third in a series so I get mad, but still enjoy them anyway, and books that are gigantic because they’re all three books in a series… Continue reading
On the Shelf: Punk Rock Memoir
This week, I found myself on a memoir reading kick, specifically, a punk rock memoir reading kick. That’s what’s on the shelf this week, so kick back, turn up some Siouxsie and the Banshees, or maybe some Joan Jett or Patti Smith or Le Tigre, and settle in with one of these excellent reads. Continue reading