March and July are my busiest month as I prepare for #indieapril and #indieaugust, and I’m never fully prepared. But I love shouting about the wonderful indie books I read and the amazing people that make up the indie community. We deserve to be in the spotlight, authors and readers a like. That’s why I’ve Read More
#indieapril is back!
BBNYA Spotlight: The Time Trails by Jon McConnell & Dayne McConnell
Genre: Science Fiction Length: 358 Pages Goodreads | Amazon Summary “Four players. It’s in the rules.” “Is this like, some sort of academic decathlon or something?” “Something like that.” Walkman-toting, guitar-playing Finn Mallory blames himself for his parents’ deaths and would do anything to turn back time and set things right. So, when he’s recruited Read More
We Deserve To Exist is Released!
I submitted my short story for this anthology a long time ago, and it’s been years since I first wrote it. My story, No Monster of Frankstein, was an escape. I have chronic pain and when I wrote it, I had a big pain flare. This story was my distraction, something to keep the pain Read More
BBNYA Review: Bloodlaced by Courtney Maguire
Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Length: 314 Pages Goodreads | Amazon Summary Kanjin hardly view their servants as human. Even less so when they are different. Asagi is different. Both a man and a woman. In the wake of his failure to protect a boy they saw as a son from their abusive master, Asagi is sold Read More
r/Fantasy Bingo 2022 Complete
It’s almost time to submit our final bingo cards for the r/Fantasy Bingo reading challenge. I finished mine late last year and I finalised my picks. I’ve since read more books that could’ve fit these prompts but I stuck with these. I made a list of potential reads for each prompt and due to another Read More
BBNYA Tour: Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson
Genre: Urban Fantasy Length: 290 Pages Goodreads | Amazon Summary Being the chosen one isn’t always a good thing… Oscar Tundale is not a hero. Anxious, indecisive, and awkward, he can barely get through a normal day. Now he’s about to find out monsters are real. Oscar’s friends: brave, stubborn Zara, and hyperactive, paranoid Marcus, Read More
Review: Galen Leather 5-Pen Zippered Folio
I’ve recently received a small zippered folio from Galen Leather to review. I was already familiar with the brand because it’s hard to be in the fountain pen world and not have heard of Galen Leather. It’s one of the few brands that’s dedicated to creating leather accessories for fountain pens and they’ve recently started Read More
BBNYA Tour: These Violent Nights by Rebecca Crunden
These Violent Nights by Rebecca Crunden Genre: Romantic Dystopian, Fantasy Length: 620 Pages Goodreads | Amazon Summary Once upon a time, inhabitants of another world tore a hole through the universe and came to Earth. They called themselves Suriias, and rivalled humans in knowledge and skill with one great exception: they had magic. War followed. Read More
March of the Sequels
March of the Sequels is an online event, and my friend Jamedi is hosting it this year. Check out his blog for the central hub and daily interviews with authors about their books! Why March of the Sequels? It’s notoriously hard to market a second book in a series, especially when the first book didn’t Read More
BBNYA Tour: Oil and Dust by Jami Farleigh
Genre: Fantasy Length: 510 Goodreads | Amazon Summary When all has been lost, we find ourselves… Out of the ashes of destruction, a new world has arisen. The plagues of the past—the worship of greed and pursuit of power—are gone. Now, the communities that remain in this post-apocalyptic world focus on creating connections, on forging Read More