Reveals | Monsters take over IAM 2013 month

Today is the day! All this month IAM 2013 has reigned over at Aside From Writing (click here to visit the festivities). And today Bo, Isis, Trick, and Peppy take over Aside From writing! While I’m still working on the last (copy) edits for the novel, I did want to rip back the veil on [...]

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Update | Junkpunk project Firest Draft COMPLETED

Today I wrote the final words in my latest project.  Remember that novel? I briefly mentioned it not long ago in an earlier post (click here). I called it “junkpunk”. This is only the completed first draft but it’s the hardest part of writing, getting the story out on the page. I added characters I [...]

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Review | “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline

  Blurb from Goodreads.com: It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and [...]

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Review | “Stormdancer” by Jay Kristoff

  Book description from Goodreads: Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Everyone knows what happens to those who fail him, no matter how hopeless the task. But the mission proves far less [...]

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Review | Rick Riordan’s “The Mark of Athena”

Summary from Amazon: In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. But they number only [...]

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