Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Since Evie Dunmore's The Gentleman's Gambit isn't due for another...five months, my next WOMS review is for the conclusion of a series I've read but not written about before except to mention how quickly I fell in love with its charms. The series is ...
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The Case to Redefine High Fantasy: Epic Films
Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Two weeks ago I shared about a conversation a friend of mine and I had regarding our frustrations with how high fantasy is defined within the literary world. The nuances of our discussion, though limited to literature, still had me thinking and referring ...
WOMS: The Light of the Midnight Stars
Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Though I should be sharing my review of Evie Dunmore's most recent League of Extraordinary Women installment, Portrait of a Scotsman, because today is Erev Purim, I've decided to instead share something a bit more Jewish---Rena Rossner's The Light of the ...
The Case to Redefine High Fantasy: What is Epic?
Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A few days ago, when speaking with a new friend, she mentioned how her manuscript is not an epic fantasy like Tolkien, but more mild. While I understood her differentiation, her use of Tolkien's works as the litmus to test the intensity of epicness within ...
Know Thyself: or How I Realised I’m Not a YA Fiction Writer & Can Write in More Than One Genre
Please note: this post may contain affiliate links for products I recommend. If you make a purchase through these links, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a small commission. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Last week, I committed myself to providing consistent content, which will come in either one of two forms: Regular musings of moi;Book reviews. I also committed to publishing said content on a biweekly basis, or every other week. As such---after ...
