Love, Psychology
December 12, 2016

Genre: Nonfiction Psychology You’ll like this if you like: Learning About Love. Favorite Quote: “When a relationship endures, it is not because the flame never burns out. It is because the flame is always being relit.”   From Amazon Love confuses and compels us—and it can destroy and define us. It has inspired our greatest poetry,…

Polls, Season
December 9, 2016

Winter hasn’t quite started, but it’s warming up! So to speak 😉 Of the four seasons, which is your favorite?   Which Season is Your Favorite?

School, Life Lessons, Algebra
December 7, 2016

My end-of-semester essay prompt read: How has studying math enabled you to consider choices and consequences more fully this semester? And I was like: Whaaaaattt? How on earth is math supposed to teach you about anything other than graphs, geometry, algebra, etc? Since when do life lessons fall under math lessons? Math isn’t a favorite subject…

Speculative, Dreams
December 5, 2016

Genre: Speculative You’ll like this if you like: Time Travel, Dreams, or Races Against Time to Stop a World-Threatening Virus.   Favorite Profound Quote:   “How is it that Elyon [or God] can allow evil to exist in the black forest? Why doesn’t he just destroy the Shataiki?” “Because evil provides his creation with a choice,” the…

Christmas Movies
December 2, 2016

It’s finally December, and Christmas approaches! To start off this month, I’d like to ask you: what are your favorite Christmas movies? Any recommendations? A personal favorite of mine is Jingle All the Way. Have you seen it?

God Faith Love
November 30, 2016

Today, I’d like to share a few excerpts with you from the 2nd chapter in Hannah Duggan’s bible study, Dare Greatly. I don’t know about what you, but waiting grates on me. Waiting for anything–for my license, God, or the right guy. Before I dive ahead into my point, I’d like to share a passage in the…

Medieval Time Travel Romance War of Roses
November 28, 2016

Genre: Medieval Time Travel Romance You’ll like this if you like: Time Travel, Enemy Turned Lover Stories, or Second-Chance Stories. Cleanliness: After the hero and heroine are married (Oh, yeah. Predictable Spoiler Alert!) they make love several times, but the scenes are breezed over. It might be uncomfortable for some readers. Hero Type: Semi-Virtuous Hero At…

Fantasy Magic Polls Beauty and the Beast Doctor Strange
November 25, 2016

If you could have the Magic Mirror from Beauty and the Beast, which allows you to see anything or anyone you wish, or the Cloak of Levitation from Doctor Strange, which makes you fly, assists in hand-to-hand combat, and is resistant to Asgardian weaponry, which magical device would you have? Magic Mirror or Cloak of Levitation?

Paper Reading
November 23, 2016

Before I was writing seriously and trying to get my own book published, I never considered the work that would go into the design of the book. When you look, there are so many different designs snuck into the corners of pages, options for page numbering, fonts, etc. One day, I went through the library pulling…

Dystopian Speculative
November 21, 2016

Genre: Dystopian You’ll like this if you like: “What If” Stories, Thought-Provoking Books, or Reading. 😉 Favorite Profound Quote: “Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” Favorite Descriptive Quote: “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of…