Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Fiction The Rook, The Rook, how to best tell you about this book. I’d say The Rook is like Men in Black, where a group of covert operatives protect the world from supernatural evil forces, but then I’d be leaving out the chess. I’d say The RookContinue reading “The Rook Book Review”
Author Archives: Shea Robinson
A Writing Tip to Share Space
We all write from the world in which we know. If you’re a white person like I am, then your characters may start off as all white. I know best how I think, feel, and move through the world. But while that may be true for me, I can’t possibly give my readers the essenceContinue reading “A Writing Tip to Share Space”
We Are The Weather Book Review
Category: Birds of Paradise-a story that will broaden your scope of the world Genre: Non-fiction Having graduated with a degree in sustainable food systems, I found We Are the Weather while I was looking for a book on the subject. I recognized Foer from his previous novels, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything isContinue reading “We Are The Weather Book Review”
A Writing Tip for When you Feel Like a Literary Potato
We can’t spend all our time writing alone. We spend too much time in our own heads as it is. You writing will drastically improve if you join your local writing group. Writing groups help you balance the internal struggle of dreaming to be a writer while feeling like a literary potato. In other words,Continue reading “A Writing Tip for When you Feel Like a Literary Potato”
But what do I read next?
Have you ever had that feeling when you’re 20-100 pages from the end of a book and you start reading slower because you don’t want the story to end? Because you don’t know what you’ll do with your life once the writer has left you? Then this blog post is for you. Below, you’ll findContinue reading “But what do I read next?”
A Writing Tip to Find Your Reader
Publishing is a beast and as soon as you start trying to tackle it and wrestle it to the ground, you realize how much there is to still learn. This is the time to bring together the artist/creative and the business/sales person and learn how to make them coexist. It wasn’t enough to know whatContinue reading “A Writing Tip to Find Your Reader”
The Starless Sea Book Review
Category: Camellias on Moss, Snow Flower, Apple Blossom Genre: Fantasy I just finished reading this book yesterday, so perhaps it is too soon to claim this book is “Camellias on Moss”—one that will keep its place as life changing once the sword settles back in stone and the bees stop buzzing around my head. ButContinue reading “The Starless Sea Book Review”
A Writing Tip for Fixing Holes
We all have aspects of writing in which we excel and aspects in which we’re terrible. It’s important to be able to identify both. If you feel that you are terrible at writing, you’re probably reading your work too closely. This is a good time for beta readers or to walk away and work onContinue reading “A Writing Tip for Fixing Holes”
Ella Minnow Pea Book Review
Category: Apple Blossom-a story that seduces you Genre: Fiction This one is for the bibliophiles. The logophiles. The readers who enjoy the magic of good writing. The writers who delight in the power of being lost in a good story. Ella Minnow Pea is about a town that reveres the sentence, “The quick brown foxContinue reading “Ella Minnow Pea Book Review”
A Writing Tip for Finding your Voice
When I first introduce myself as a writer, I generally say that I’m a novelist. But the truth is I enjoy writing in many different styles. I’ve written plays and short stories and personal narratives. In high school, I got really interested in writing poetry and raps, which I wrote by hand in a journal.Continue reading “A Writing Tip for Finding your Voice”
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