DISCLAIMER BEFORE THE PITCHFORKS ARE FORKED, OR ER, PITCHED (?) IN MY DIRECTION: By 'reviewer' I do not mean 'a malicious troll'. I mean a reviewer who is stating their opinion on the book in a fair, truthful, and often amusing way. I am not a villain, cackling away behind the anonymity of a computer… Continue reading why i like one star reviews
Tag: romance
tropes i would like to see more of
... maybe this is love - not because the character declares it every. other. page (I could say that I am a dragon-slaying astronaut, for sure, but that don't make it so) but because we - the reader - have watched it grow.
highlights of text butchery
You can look back on a butchered page and think: my gosh, this looks legit! Maybe I am a Proper Writer after all!
podcast // wishes, crusaders, and gardens
If you marry a man for his bank account, you're called a gold digger. So what do you call it if you're marrying a man for a rose garden ... a garden digger? ... a gardener? No? Okay. [The Rose-Garden Husband by Margaret Widdemer] And Phyllis Braithwaite, the little Liberry Teacher who had been living… Continue reading podcast // wishes, crusaders, and gardens
Recountings: Eloping Sisters and Replacement Brides
The equation of: heart-broken man + innocent young girl + marriage goes just about as well as you could expect.
of words & books 