Although I made it a hard rule only to buy books that I’ve already read, that doesn’t mean I stick to that rule. If a book is free, all rules are off. And if a book is super old, or is by an author I really love, or if it’s a book I want toContinue r...

This paper is the one I wrote for my English exam this March, and I decided to share it here. Hope you enjoy! Let me know your thoughts 🙂 Introduction Libraries have been around for thousands of years. But there are those who believe that libraries...

Greetings, Bookworm Readers! As the author of semi-biographical fiction, I often find discrepancies between real life and what constitutes “good storytelling” in writing. Since I keep to the truth of the history as faithfully as I can, my books fail...

My cover is available for voting in the Clean Fiction Magazine Cover Art Contest. The contest runs till August 9, and you can vote daily (and for free). The cover with the most votes wins. If you’d like to vote for my cover you can do so here: https:...

Welp, June feels like it was a long, long time ago… and yet I don’t seem to have much to share… *shrugs* || Highlights & Lowlights // The Once Upon a Pen awards are open! I’m really hoping to get my book nominated. I need 5 nominations to get my...

I wanted Goodreads for so long and I was thrilled when I was finally allowed to get it in 2020. I spent almost all summer copy and pasting my thousands of reviews into the system and tagging it meticulously. For a time, I kept my shelves scrupulously...

I recently mentioned in my update post how I’ve reread Jane Austen’s 6 major novels this year. Being on Tumblr, I see a lot of Austen-related posts and I thought it’d be fun to do my own little ranking of the heroes and villains in her novels. (I’m e...

Welcome to the next stop in your tour of the Shattered Lands!  From your position on the mountain flank, you can see the Highlands sprawl out before you. Pines rise tall and proud all along the sides of the cliffs, but taper off in the valley, where...

It’s time for the 6th yearly instalment of this delightful tag, so let’s get right to it. If you’re interested, you can find my past posts here, here, here, here, and here. (Also, in the interest of crediting creators, I believe the origins of this t...

It’s been a hot minute, I know. And you’re not obligated to read this update. But I want to do it to remember things—and somehow a lot of y’all seem interested in this weird little life of mine, so… shall we? || Highlights & Lowlights Fair warnin...