I exchanged ebook links with a few other self-published authors during and after a webinar on sales and marketing. Here is one of those reviews. A Tale of Two Kingdoms This is an entertaining epic fantasy novel with a large cast of characters and jaw-dropping plot twists. …

I exchanged ebook links with a few other self-published authors during and after a webinar on sales and marketing. Here is one of those reviews. Michele, Maureen. Reclaiming Life: A Guide for Parents of Chronically Ill Children. Self-published November 28, 2022. This inspiring book is for parents who have a…

I exchanged ebook links with a few other self-published authors during and after a webinar on sales and marketing. Here is one of those reviews. Eklund, Samantha. The Witchbeast. Self-published, July 12, 2020. Fast-paced Urban Fantasy Adventure This is full of action and plot twists! It’s a fast-paced urban fantasy…

Collins, Kate. A Good House for Children. Mariner Books, NY & Boston: 2023. Thank you, Mariner Books & LibraryThing for this free ARC. Slow burn gothic spookiness. Fans of Shirley Jackson and Daphne Du Maurier will relish this book. The novel has a dual timeline: 1976 and 2017–23. The fact…

I’m a member of a Facebook group called ERA, about the Equal Rights Amendment. The group’s Chathead discussions bombard my smartphone. I’m I’m glad this isn’t typical of Facebook groups, and I’m not sure why people don’t just post in the group instead of using the Group’s direct messages. Yesterday…

Some people have deleted their Twitter accounts since the fascist frat boy bought the company. I haven’t done so, but I began drastically less active on Twitter. The dumpster fire known as Twitter regularly attempts to entice me (and fails) with emails that contain numerous posts from different accounts. It…

This is a grad school paper I wrote in 2009. The publishing industry seems less biased toward cishet white male authors now, at least in part thanks to independent presses. Admittedly, that might have a lot to do with what books catch my eye. It’s finally much easier to find…

This probably isn’t the first letter to my senators and representative that I’ve written about the attack on medication abortion, and it won’t be the last. A Christofascist shadow organization ludicrously calling itself the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — which is in fact the Alliance for Hypocritical Anti-medicine — formed…

An extention of organized fascist book bannings is… defunding libraries. The Republifascists running the state of Misery decided the state budget wouldn’t include public or school libraries. This is a dystopia, indeed. It reminds me of Fahrenheit 451. Not to mention of course Nazis burning books. When I dwelled in…