Confession time
I have a confession to make that won’t make me many friends: I like hyper-competent beautiful characters. Notice I didn’t say “I like Mary Sues.” There’s a reason for this . . . read carefully because lots of people seem to have trouble with this one, more every year: They’re not the same thing! First, […]
Thoughts on reviews and reviewing
For reasons that are complicated to explain without getting into oddities of book promotion that I’m pretty sure most indie authors already know and no one else cares about, I’ve been reading lots of things to review them lately. I’ve also just recently gotten in the habit, probably because of this (and possibly because […]
My first obligatory fanfic opinions post
I’m pretty sure every author makes one or more of these eventually, hence the title. This was inspired by Seanan McGuire‘s post here. (By the way, if you like Universal Nexus, try her InCryptid series. I think my characters may be descendants of hers.) Universal Nexus exists because I failed horribly at writing fanfic. The […]