I feel like everyone has been there at one time in their life or another…you feel stuck. Life has turned you every way but loose and the dominoes keep falling on top of your head to the point where you just know you have a concussion and need rest. But then, you try to take a break and the guilt starts eating at you. Like you can’t relax because there is too much work to be done. You can catch up on emails or start that DIY project you’ve been meaning to start. There may be a

We’d all gathered there in that two-bedroom apartment. My uncle was lying in bed, scarf on his head to hide the balding. His hair had been a source of pride for him for my entire life, and probably much longer than that. But now, it had thinned andclumped and so, he hid behind a bandana, covers pulled up. He was so skinny lying there, face and hands bloated from steroids, nailed curved and dark. He was him, but he wasn’t. He still had that great smile, even though his sweet t

I love a good suspense. Bonus points if there’s a bookish main character. Even more bonus points if it feels reminiscent of Gothic literature. Atlas of Unknowable Things gets all the bonus points because it features a young woman, hoping to finish her doctoral thesis and ends up getting caught up in the supernatural. The fact that she is a skeptic and refuses to accept it at first adds a bit of levity to the narrative. This novel also has quite a cozy feel. I received an ARC

I love a good mystery. All the better when there are moments of suspense and when there are reveals one after the other. In A Pretender’s Murder by Christopher Huang, we get just that. Eric is, was, a soldier in the Great War, a war that he and millions of others are still reeling from seven years later. And as he pieces his life back together, he finds himself with a new job in a gentleman’s club as the secretary, the old one gone after a murder. And yet only weeks into Eric

A book review for the nonfiction title Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

Feeling like you aren’t good enough, like your work doesn’t matter, like you screw up more than you succeed. Every creative knows what imposter syndrome is…intimately. But it isn’t like just knowing what it is makes it any easier to avoid or overcome. You can know what a sinkhole is, but that doesn’t mean you’re prepared when one opens up in front of your car. And that is what imposter syndrome can feel like, a void that just gets deeper and deeper until we’re in a rabbit hol

Have you ever wondered what happened to the kids who were switched with changelings? A Far Better Thing is an adult fantasy novel by H.G. Parry that focuses on a man named Memory, who at the age of two was whisked away to the fairy world, known as the Realm. But at the age of thirteen he was dropped off back in the mortal world to act as a mortal servant, seeing that the will of fairies be done. His tasks range from collecting bones, to kidnapping babies and swapping them wit

I haven’t been writing that much lately. I think it is part being tired, part not wanting to use my brain, part the world being a mess. It’s probably a conglomeration of many things, but the result is that my creativity has really been put aside. More like stuffed into a trunk and thrown into my crawl space, if I am being honest. Of course, this isn’t the first time I have done this and I doubt that it will be the last, but I made the conscious decision to stop guilt tripping

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You’re probably on my website because you like to either read or write. And if you like reading here, I will make the leap that you read...

If you are at all familiar with Japanese culture, you may already have an idea of what the theme of this book is. If not, I will be happy...

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This book gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, women's intuition. I received a digital ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest...

I know what you’re thinking, self care and being a writer don’t go together, but I disagree. And honestly, recently I have been in...

Personally, I am all for it and I’ll get to that in a little bit. I was talking with a friend and while she used to be a big reader, life...

Anyone who has ever tried to submit a piece of creative work knows that most literary journals and small presses charge what they call a...

I received a digital ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review. This book shook me. Not in a bad way, but in a way that totally...

I think that every writer has written at least one WIP that didn’t do what they wanted to do, but I’ll just speak for me. Sometimes my...