Meet Meg Cowley and her awesome new Immersive Fantasy book
Happy beginning of October! Today I want to introduce you to Meg Cowley. I first ran across Meg because she published beautiful coloring books, and since I had attempted to make my own coloring book, I was in awe of her drawing skills. (Meg’s are gorgeously...
Author Interview with Pauline Creeden and a Giveaway!
Today I’m really excited to have Pauline Creeden on the blog for an interview. She’s a fellow author in the Noblebright Box Set Luminous with her book, Raven (which has a gorgeous cover!) ***Also, at the bottom of this post check out the great giveaway we’re...
The challenge that is Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Happy September! Maybe I should say, “Happy Just-Grabbing-on-to-the-Tail-End-of-September!” It makes me feel like I should be sitting in a rocking chair knitting for all the times I say, “I have no idea where this month has gone!” (Note: if this is what my retirement...
Shakespeare’s Contributions
I’m on a word kick lately, as you might have noticed. A week or so ago, Christine commented on my website that Shakespeare was a pro at making up words. Turns out that many common words today were first found in the Bard’s work. And by many, I mean 1700 words. (There...
Words for Book Lovers
In keeping with the theme of new vocabulary that started last week with words John Koenig had made up to describe emotions people have, I’ve come across some unusual words just for book lovers. Here are my two favorites from a list compiled by Oxford Dictionary: 1....
Did you know it’s completely legit to make up new words?
Making up words is fun, but most of the ones I make up aren’t good words. They’re usually just weird noises while I’m trying to describe things to my children. Like “Hold the flusher down until the toilet glugurgles.” But, I’ve recently come across John Koenig who’s...
New online epic fantasy book club!
I would like to say that I love all of you. After my comment in my last post about how I’ve lived near Glacier National Park for years and barely ever visited, I heard back from a lot of you that I’m not the only one. I think I need to instigate some sort of “Act Like...
Enjoying where you live
We moved this week and I’m writing you from the chaos and beauty that is our new home. We’re in that in-between phase where we are in our new house, but not quite out of the old one. I can find all sorts of obscure things like extra shower curtains that I have no need...
Did you know you can see how long it’s going to take you to read all those books?
You guys crack me up. I’m not the only one who was excited that the word Tsundoku exists. And y’all have a LOT of books in your To Read pile! I do too, but I’m an amateur compared to some of you. I’m humbled to be in your presence. The best find of the week was from...
Did you know there’s a Japanese word for people with more books than they can read?
Did you know… …that there’s a Japanese word for people with more books than they can read? tsundoku (n.) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling it up together with other such unread books. If you combine that idea with a study from the UK...