Ginny Frost 
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Will Rise From Ashes by Jean M. Grant fulfilled the category “Book with Two Points of View” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. As you know, most romances have two points of view—the love interests of the tale. I had a full playing field to choose from for the category. But when Ms. …
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You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria fulfilled the category “Book by Latinx Author” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. Ms. Daria is a multi-award-winning author of romance. At first, I had another of Ms. Daria’s titles on my list, Take the Lead. When initially published, this novel won an elusive RITA award …
If you’ve been following this blog, you know how redundant that title is. Everything here is for writers. I poked around at a few specific reference sites that assist with the actual writing process. Style Guides: Here’s a great list of different style guides from Wiki. Each publishing house, university, and workplace probably uses a …
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann fulfilled the category “A Book You Know Nothing About” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. I picked several random books for the prompt, but my library job makes it tough to not know anything about a title. I grabbed a few that had topics I had …
There’s nothing better than the Farmer’s Almanac when looking for facts. Here is a link to the resource. I found some other great sites to supplement it. One other quick reference is Time and Date. This site lets you play with time like you’re a Time Lord. No, not really, but it does show you …
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan and Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón fulfilled the category “Two Books Set in Sister Cities” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. Mr. Penumbra takes place in San Francisco while Shadow of the Wind is set in Barcelona, Spain. Again, like last week, I’m posting …
Welp, you can’t search on the internet without either Google or Wikipedia answering all your questions. In fact, here’s a link from Wikipedia for a bunch of online encyclopedias. I expect you are using the big two, so here are some “alternative” sources for research. When I started as a romance writer, I had …
My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella and Bared to You by Sylvia Day fulfilled the category “Two Books Set in Sister Cities” for the PopSugar 2022 Reading Challenge. I’m supposed to create one post for each book. But… Sigh. I’ve read four titles for the two prompts. I didn’t like two of them. …