Reading: Cinder, the first in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer and I’m seriously addicted. This is like sci-fi meets fairy tale meets Sailor Moon. As I was a huge fan of Sailor Moon back in the day, there is nothing not to like about this mind-blowing concept. I just wish I could have thought…
Category: Books
Weekly Book Review-This Kiss by M.C. Frank
This week, I’m going to review This Kiss by M.C. Frank. The author made an extremely nice comment on my own story–this after I had received two rejections from literary agents–but just a disclaimer that this did not bias my opinions of her story. However, because she did leave me a comment, I went on…
Weekly Book Review-If the Green Left the Grass by T.K. Yeager
Back in my day, we didn’t have all this social media or websites to post stories and fanfics…I wave my cane at youngsters and shuck my false teeth at them scalawags. I think one of the greatest advantages of being able to post your work on sites like Swoon Reads or Wattpad is to get…
Book in Box-The Little Prince
If any of you have heard of Little Lace Box, I think it’s quite a clever idea. If you sign up, they will send you a box of five items centered around a theme. They’ve done themes centered around books, such as Pride and Prejudice and The Little Prince. They’ve also done themes like “A…
Book Club-The Little Prince Review
This month, my book club is reading The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I remember reading it as a kid, but I never knew it was semi-autobiographical. Upon reading it again, the symbolism kind of hit me in the face. But more on that later. Here is my review. Tear Level: 5/5 shed…
The Essence Series: The Tale of Shoo
Started a new short story series that I’m calling The Essence Series. Each short story is a futuristic/sci-fi retelling of a fairy tale. And we begin with Cinderella… I didn’t grow out of my lisp until I was nearly ten. This was the year my father was forced to marry my stepmother, a woman…
A Very Wordy Thirty
The inevitable happened. I said my adieus to my turbulent twenties this past weekend. Rather than be sad about it, I decided to throw myself a birthday party to start off a new chapter of my life. And I called it: Since I love reading and writing, I made my party book-themed. To start with,…
Swimming Lessons and Self Publishing
The year was 1990. I was a little under four feet tall, above average for a five going on six year old. And I was rockin’ my neon pink and sky blue swimming suit and heart-shaped sunglasses. I climbed up the stairs leading to the swimming pool for my first swimming lesson. When I reached the top,…
Love Conflicts, Part II–Part of Your World, but Not
Isn’t it rather ironic that we all live in the same world, but we’re not really a part of each other’s worlds? We all have different backgrounds—race, religion, hobbies, values. My absolute favorite conflict in love stories: the classic “I can’t be with you because we’re from different worlds.” Think about it. It’s in so…
Love Conflicts, Part I
You don’t need a villain to create conflict. I read this today and thought, wow, interesting statement. It’s true in that good people can create conflict among themselves. But here’s my opinion. You don’t need a villain to create conflict, but sometimes that’s only because there isn’t a flesh and blood villain. Some villains don’t…
Kissing Confessions
Write what you know, they tell me. We couldn’t look away from each other at this moment even if the sun were about to collide into the very spot where we stood. His beautifully tanned skin seemed to cast golden rays under the low lights of the room. My heartbeat pounded in my ears as…
How to Get Away with a Murder………Mystery
Time laughs, flying ever faster as he watches my futile efforts to catch up to him. Breathlessly, I wave goodbye to autumn and realize I should have posted this a month ago. Last week, I wrote that within the last five years, I’ve grown a lot, become a little less of a wallflower. This is a little more of that…
Untold Tales by a Whimsical Wallflower 