Tag: Fantasy
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The Story of Silence
The Story of Silence by Alex Myers is a beautiful book, a fairy tale that’s full of heart, a joy to read. The Goodreads description‘s first paragraph sold me right away, rounded out with the perfect comparison titles: A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark…
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Gay romance, funny oldies, a romcom + a dark fantasy
I’ve hooked up with these authors to help promote each others’ books. Today we’ve got quite the mix in content and level of offering… If you give any a shot, let me know how you enjoy them! And if you’re keen to catch future book promos / giveaways, be sure to join my mailing list. Beneath…
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Winter reading and streaming
I know for many, June is the start of summer, pride month, etc. But for us in the southern hemisphere, it’s all the other way around. This week has been the coldest (nudging up against zero) and darkest (shortest day!) this year for me. So, that means less time outside, and more time for snuggling…
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Second draft of my first full-length novel ☠👨🍳
With a few interruptions along the way, it’s taken me two years to get to this point… First draft (i.e. getting it down) Plotting, planning, and scheming kicked off in February 2019 before I started the first draft two months later. What followed was seven months of tippity tapping away on the train to and…
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The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage
This story bowled me over. Alix E Harrow builds a fascinating and strange world, breaking your heart in only a handful of pages. Set on a world straddling the Mississippi River, with the civilised East determined to subdue, stabilise, and settle the wild and ever-changing West. This is not the analogy of the Wild West…
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The Crow Folk
I adored The Crow Folk. Funny, spooky, witchy, and absolutely charming – I was captivated from start to finish. Set in a small Kent village populated with a charismatic cast of characters, Faye Bright stumbles across her late mother’s diary: ‘Here were rituals, magic, monsters, demons and, for some reason, a recipe for jam roly-poly.’…
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The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season is the first in the Broken Earth trilogy by N. K. Jemisin. It’s been on my reading pile for years – I mean, you can hardly ignore a trilogy that wins the Hugo Award for Best Novel in three consecutive years, can you? And wow, this book did not disappoint. I can’t…
G. B. Ralph 