{ Quick note: Round 2 voting for the OUAP Awards just opened! You can vote here. } This is the seventh year in a row that I do this recap, and I’m thrilled. You can check out the other ones here—2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024—and they include the...
{Quick note: Round 1 voting for the OUAP Awards is still open for two more days! You can vote here. I’ll update you with how “A Noble Comfort” does once the results are announced.} Well, cupcakes, as you probably know, January is my birth month, and—...
If you recall, my debut novel, A Noble Comfort, was nominated for the Once Upon a Pen 2025 Awards last year. I’m thrilled to announce we received enough nominations to advance to the voting stage! The first round opened yesterday and closes January 2...
And we have officially reached the last wrap-up/update of 2025, guys! I’m honestly a little curious what we’ll see here because I don’t remember much of December, haha. Let’s peek. BUT FIRST! I am participating in Kate’s newly-created TBR party in Fe...
Hi folks! Brief note from Katja here. I’ve asked the lovely Savannah @ Blue Flower Story Company to share about her writing process for her newly released WWII novel. Full disclaimer: I haven’t yet started my ARC of it so can’t officially endorse it,...
I have forgotten what my word for the year was at least 3 times, and yet every time I think of it I get this sense of “yes, that’s exactly what I need.” CONTENT, adjective [Latin , to be held; to hold.] Literally, held, contained within limits; hence...
Welcome to the fifth annual New Year Book Tag! This is not the bookish recap tag, which will come in January, but I still find it fun to do and you’re free to skip it. I’ve done it a couple times before, so if you wanna check those out or see my sou...
I don’t think I actually ever officially announced my word for this year. *double checks* Scratch that, I did. However, I didn’t think much of it to be honest. I didn’t really make goals for 2025. I just wanted to live my life in a better, healthier,...
Has it ever occurred to you how inconvenient Christmas was? More than inconvenient—how unideal? How difficult? How straight-up unpleasant? How much of the story the principal characters would have liked to have skipped? Consider Mary’s story. However...
I know I did a tag earlier this week but I don’t have the energy to write a really serious Christmas post, and this is a very unbookish tag, so that should count for something. 😆 Rules Questions 1. When do you consider the holiday season officially...
