This week we're getting back in the swing of things by continuing on with Lynn Kurland's next book in her Nine Kingdoms series, Spellweaver, and boy howdy did it deliver! As I hinted in my last review of A Tapestry of Spells, Kurland has a way of interweaving her plots together so you can see how the events of her first trilogy and this trilogy interconnect but also differ. In this book, especially, there are greater parallels and crossovers, ones which I had hoped would occur since they were ...
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WOMS: The Love Prescription
They never said marriage would be easy, but I also don't think when they warn you of the challenges you'll face as a new couple, those will include both a life-altering health crisis and global pandemic occurring all within the first year of said marriage. I know I've spoken before about some of the challenges my "new" husband and I have faced within the last three, going on four, years of our marriage, but I haven't, I don't think, revealed just how difficult overcoming these challenges has ...
Celebrating Success
It's official: I'm a published author! I don't know if it really has sunk in yet. The day of the book launch, I had mentioned to my coworker how I had a big event that evening. When she asked what, I didn't cower and mutter some half-baked lie. No, I told her the truth. Of course, like most creatives who constantly compare their level of success to the heavily-publicized, multi-billionaire artists who seem to be famous overnight (never happens that way except in the movies)---I did tell ...
A Small Beginning
Tonight is the night! It's book launch day! I still can't believe something I wrote is actually going to be in a literal, physical book, and people are actually going to read it! I can't even believe I told people and they bought it! Sure, it's not a major book deal with one of the major five publishing houses, nor is it a full-length novel or series. It is after all only a short story within an anthology. Even though this may be a small beginning---one small step for Lynn---it's my step, ...
WOMS: A Tapestry of Spells
Continuing with Lynn Kurland's Nine Kingdoms series, this week we're reviewing book four in the series, the start of a new trilogy: A Tapestry of Spells. Unfortunately, I wasn't as absorbed by this book as its predecessors, but this is not at all a comment on Kurland's writing. Rather I just had too much on my plate, so I didn't get to sit down and just let myself fall back into the world of the Nine Kingdoms and forget about life for a while as I would have preferred. Instead, I had to read ...
