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Book Review: American Royals
The Washingtons have ruled America for almost 250 years. Princess Beatrice, as heir to the throne, feels the responsibility of that legacy and has been preparing all her life to take it on. Poised, reflective and supremely self-controlled, she’s keenly aware that her...
Tiers of Characters
It can be tough, managing a large cast of characters, working out how to give them all the right amount of page time, deciding who needs developing and who doesn’t. One way to look at this is to know how you’re categorising your different characters. There are a bunch...
The Good Mother: Book Review
The Good Mother Blurb Amy’s life is close to perfect – two lovely daughters, a wonderful husband and she’s queen bee in her circle of soccer moms. She feels content, like she’s finally put some distance between herself and the terrible events of long ago. The only fly...
New Year’s Resolutions for Writers
Who doesn’t love a New Year’s Resolution? There’s something exciting about watching the clock tick over to a new year, feeling like this is a chance to turn over a new leaf, a chance to do better. Making New Year’s Resolutions means, for me at least, sitting down with...
Book Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Karou has two lives; her life as an art student in Prague, and her life running inexplicable errands for the monstrous Brimstone, and she’s doing her very best to balance the two. But events are in motion that will destroy that careful equilibrium, and that threaten...
My Favourite Books of 2019
The end of the year approaches! As we come to the last week of 2019 it’s a great time to look back and reflect… on the books we read this year. I feel like I could have read more (don’t we all?) but I also read some absolutely stunning books this year, and I wanted to...