Tag: humor
Stick Figure Fiction!
You may not have known this, but I make a mean stick figure. During college, I used my stick figure comics in my notes. They are a great way to paraphrase what a historical event or story is all about. I talked it out with a bunch of friends and I was asked to do… Continue reading Stick Figure Fiction!
Book #116: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes… Continue reading Book #116: My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Book #22: NPCs by Drew Hayes
What happens when the haggling is done and the shops are closed? When the quest has been given, the steeds saddled, and the adventurers are off to their next encounter? They keep the world running, the food cooked, and the horses shoed, yet what adventurer has ever spared a thought or concern for the Non-Player… Continue reading Book #22: NPCs by Drew Hayes
Book #54: Resisting the Rebel by Lisa Brown Roberts
Disclaimer: This book contains a villain pretending to be a hero, a hero pretending to be a villain, a disco-dancing heroine, two overprotective sidekicks, a little bit of bad language, and a whole lot of swoony kissing. Spirit committee leader Mandy Pennington is secretly in love with her best friend, Gus, but when he hooks… Continue reading Book #54: Resisting the Rebel by Lisa Brown Roberts
Book #50: Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
Being a superheroine is hard. Working for one is even harder. Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, her childhood best friend and San Francisco's most beloved superheroine. She's great at her job—blending into the background, handling her boss's epic diva tantrums, and getting demon blood out of leather pants. Unfortunately, she's… Continue reading Book #50: Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn
Book Fifty-Four of 2014: BETTER HOMES AND HAUNTINGS by Molly Harper
Author of the beloved Half Moon Hollow series of vampire romances (Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs), Molly Harper has created a standalone paranormal romance in which a dilapidated haunted house could bring star-crossed lovers together—if it doesn’t kill them first! When Nina Linden is hired to landscape a private island off the New England… Continue reading Book Fifty-Four of 2014: BETTER HOMES AND HAUNTINGS by Molly Harper
Book Thirteen of 2014: RALPH PINCUS, OCCULTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE: THE INTRODUCTIONS by Marcus Lambert
Christians, you have a new savior. Don't worry. This one's Jewish too. And his name is Ralph Pincus. Ralph joins forces with an evangelical sorcerer and a vampire in order to save the world. The reluctant trio must learn the truth before time runs out: Why does destiny's invitation sound like the garbled death… Continue reading Book Thirteen of 2014: RALPH PINCUS, OCCULTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE: THE INTRODUCTIONS by Marcus Lambert
Book Seven of 2014: BEYOND BELIEF by Helen Smith
When famed psychic Perspicacious Peg predicts a murder will occur at England’s Belief and Beyond conference, her science-minded colleagues recruit twenty-six-year-old budding sleuth Emily Castles to attend the event as a “future crimes investigator.” The suspected victim: celebrated magician Edmund Zenon, who plans to perform a daring stunt at the conference—and is offering fifty… Continue reading Book Seven of 2014: BEYOND BELIEF by Helen Smith
After 34 pages and over 13k words
You would think that after a first draft and writing the second one in over two months, I'd be a lot farther along. Sadly, that isn't the case. I think in part it has to do with the subject matter. For some reason, I love writing in a more serious overtone than what I am… Continue reading After 34 pages and over 13k words
