Writing to Please Everyone (HINT: It Ain’t Gonna Happen…) by Rachel Dunning The first book I ever wrote got two reviews almost instantly after publishing: A scathing, horrible, painful, depressing one-star. And a glorious, over-the-top, mind-blowing, filled-with-gifs, praising, laudatory five-star. The one-star was on Amazon. The five-star was on Goodreads. By chance, I happened to […]
Julie’s Review: The New Agenda is treated more like a prequel than a continuation of the story from The City Center. Ava links into the mainframe to try to find Morray, and finds his memory archive – from there we follow William Morray’s coming of age story. While this was an interesting way to present […]
Let’s all celebrate “come in from the cold” day, and read a book instead. What is your favorite way to read a book in winter time? Julie: So if you know me, you know that I hate the cold. I much prefer to curl up with a warm blanket and a cup of tea, and […]
We’re starting a new feature here on Chapter Break called Chat About Covers. ‘Cause you know we all judge books by covers, whether we admit it or not. We judge the style, the color and font choices, and just the overall look. That might not keep us from reading the book, but we do […]
would be the best person to draw from when it comes to writing, be it a story or a thought or whatever. He had said that “Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” And most aspiring writers place the excuse of inability to publish for their lack of […]
Julie’s Review: The Short Life of Sparrows is beautifully written and is a breath of fresh air in the coming-of-age paranormal genre. I’m gonna list this out, because lists. Love the lists. Things I loved about The Short Life of Sparrows: How this book has a dual narration, but the narrators are not the couple. […]
Quite a few books deal with death of characters and some books have death as the main plot line. Let’s chat about some of these. Julie: So literally, I’ve read a few books that featured the Grim Reaper, which is quite fun, and some books that have an Angel of Death character. I think these […]
WHY MY HEROINES HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE AWKWARD by Louisa Klein In 2010, when I started writing down ideas for what would have become the first book in my urban fantasy series, all I knew, was that it would feature a boy turning into some dark tree. I knew it, because I had dreamt […]
We’re starting a new feature here on Chapter Break called Chat About Covers. ‘Cause you know we all judge books by covers, whether we admit it or not. We judge the style, the color and font choices, and just the overall look. That might not keep us from reading the book, but we do […]
Julie’s Review: Well, Rachel Vincent has done it again. What an imaginative and complicated world we get to know in Menagerie. The premise is the Cryptids have no status in society and are sold off as livestock essentially. They are kept in a circus, or in a personal collection, and are feared by everyone due to […]