Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was published in 2011 by writer and filmmaker Ransom Riggs. The story is about a boy named Jacob Portman who finds out the fantasy stories his grandfather used to tell him were actually reality and the adventure Jacob goes on to find out the truth. Miss Peregrine’s Home for…
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National Novel Writing Month Prep
Have you heard of National Novel Writing Month? If you haven’t, I’ll tell you. The thirty days of November is a challenge to write 50,000 words in a month, to write a full-length novel in one month. It started in 1999, and while its internet-based, the program includes a lot more than thousands of people…
Intentions Don’t Write Books
One day during conversation, a woman, let’s call her Lacy, asked me how I went about self-publishing my debut novel The Other Side, as she wanted to publish her book. I told her the process I went through with self-publishing through KDP. After, I asked Lacy about her book that she wants to publish. Lacy…
A. E. Reads: Bitten by Kelley Armstrong [Book Review]
For the first of my A. E. Reads: Book Reviews, I read Bitten, Kelley Armstrong’s 2001 debut novel. I originally read it when it first came out, and loved it. Bitten is about Elena Michaels, an adult werewolf who is determined to live in the human society, to be as “normal” as possible. She…
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