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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Four

Day Twenty-Four: A book you later found out the author lied about Forbidden Love/Honour Lost by Norma Khouri Forbidden Love was first published in 2003 and placed in the autobiography section of the bookshops. In the book (which I have not read), Khouri (a pen name) claimed that she grew up in Jordan, and thatContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Four”

30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Three

Day Twenty-Three: Your favourite romance novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Technically, Jane Eyre is not a romance but a bildungsroman, a tale of moral growth from child to adulthood and overcoming the odds. But there is a fair amount of romance in it, in much the same way Pride and Prejudice is a comedyContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Three”

30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Two

Day Twenty-Two: Your favourite series Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. Vampire Academy is a good example on how to write engaging YA for a not so YA audience. Let’s have a quick run down: Rose, our main character, is a dhampir, a half vampire, half human, trained to protect Moroi, the gentle, passive, elemental-weilding livingContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-Two”

no longer available FREE short story download: “Don’t Even Peep”

To celebrate this blog achieving 1000 views, I am offering a free short story download. This download is a pdf file and will be available for a limited time only. I hold the rights to this story and reserve the right to modify both the download content and this web page without notice. “Don’t EvenContinue reading “*no longer available* FREE short story download: “Don’t Even Peep””

30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-One

Day Twenty-One: A guilty pleasure book The Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost Why this book is a guilty pleasure: I’m not into vampire fiction. Really, I’m not. They’ve been overdone. But I like this series. The heroine, Cat, is half-vampire, not your run of the mill helpless human victim. Cat kicks total ass. TheContinue reading “30 Day Book Challenge: Day Twenty-One”