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Intro In my opinion, there is no middle-grade series that is more underrated than Shelby Bach’s Ever Afters series. With the adventure and spirit of Percy Jackson and the magic and fairytale roots of the School for Good and Evil, it’s easily one of the best middle-grade series that I’ve ever read, but I’ve never…
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Intro There are a lot of siblings in my stories. Come to think of it, most of my main characters have had at least one sibling, sometimes more. A lot of this probably comes from growing up with siblings myself, but there’s also just the simple fact that siblings can add so much to the…
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The third book in the Rise of the Oathsworn series, the Lost Scion: A Fantasy Novelette is available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! Set shortly after the events of the Emerald Dragon, this 16,000 word story follows Xieraine as he undertakes his next adventure—this one taking place within the borders of his own home…
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Intro Although most people who have heard of Victoria Aveyard probably know her as the author of Red Queen (which is a great book, but not the one we’re talking about today), her latest series, Realm Breaker, has become one of the more well known YA fantasy series, especially among fans of epic, Lord of…
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Intro When it comes to writing, I rarely ever go in without a plan. For shorter things, like flash fiction and short stories, that plan might just be a basic idea in my head of how events are going to play out but, for longer projects like novels, I usually need more than a basic…
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Intro So, for those of you who might not know, this is a video game book, set in the universe of the World of Warcraft MMORPG. (We’re not serious readers here, if you haven’t noticed.) It’s the origin story of one of the game’s most iconic villains, the infamous Lich King, lord of the undead…
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The second book in the Rise of the Oathsworn series, the Emerald Dragon: a Fantasy Novelette, is available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! This 15,000 word fantasy story continues the adventures of Xieraine and his mentor Amara, picking up shortly after the events of the Sea Devil. (To learn more about the Sea Devil,…
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Intro As someone who has written mostly in the young adult genre, I have to write a lot of characters that are in their teens. The teenage years are, as we all know, an…interesting period of life. It’s a transitioning phase, full of both physical and mental change, which can be confusing and frustrating—all of…
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The Sea Devil: A Fantasy Novelette is available now on Amazon! Experience the first adventure of a young paladin seeking to live up to his full potential in this new 9,000 word fantasy story, the first addition of the Rise of the Oathsworn series. The Sea Devil Description It isn’t easy living up to prophecies.…
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Intro It’s time for the first reading recommendation of 2025! I’ve got a lot of great books that I’m looking forward to sharing with you this year, so deciding which one to do first took some thought. But, in the end, I figured that you can’t go wrong with a good old Sanderson novel. Skyward…
