Book Spotlight: Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson

Welcome to book spotlight where instead of giving you another book review, I’m just going to talk about books I’ve read recently that I enjoyed. Prepare yourself for the fangirl gushing. If Encanto embodies the color and brightness of spring and summer, then Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson is the autumn-winter, Celtic-based cousin. A family full of special …

Writing Update + April Camp NaNoWriMo 2020

It's been a while since I talked about my writing here. I intended to share more snippets of writing from the Teen Writing Club prompts, but the last time we met the exercise wasn't conducive for sharing and then all the other meetings have been cancelled so far since my library closed. *shrugs* Anyways, I've …

Sunday Snippets: 5 Words

I lead a writing club for teens at my library. Almost every time we meet, I give them some kind of writing prompt to challenge them. This past week, they picked a random slip of paper with five words that they then needed to incorporate in their writing in some way. Since I usually participate …

Book Review: Friend or Fiction by Abby Cooper

Friend or Fiction by Abby Cooper is a fun, light-hearted middle grade novel about family and friends, but it also provides fantastic advice for writing as well. Stuck in a no-name town in Colorado due to her father's cancer diagnosis, Jade has a hard time keeping friendships. So she creates a best friend instead and …