![]() ![]() As a bartender-especially during Split Rock’s Pride celebration-he doesn’t have any problem finding people to be with. ![]() Strings-free hookups are the only kind of relationships Hunter goes for these days. Rebound flings aren’t usually Eli’s style, but what better time than his first Pride week to try something new? His first night there, a smoking-hot bartender rescues him from some unwanted attention…then sticks around. ![]() Hunter and Eli's story was so much fun to write and includes all of my favorite tropes.Īfter his boyfriend ruins graduation day by dumping him-over text!-Eli decides to go solo on the Pride week vacation they’d planned to take together. Check them out an make sure you download my contribution, Something Unintended. Look what I've been working on!! I'm part of the MM Romance Class of 22/23 Giveaway over on Prolific Works! It's 14 FREE short stories and novellas from writers who published their first book in 2022 or early 2023. ![]()
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![]() Enter Daniel- fresh from the death of his dad, and his mom a year earlier, and a brother who was in prison and is now a little MIA, he isn't handling any of it well at all. ![]() We have Ashlyn, fresh off the death of her twin sister and being unceremoniously sent to her dad's house (who she doesn't know very well), she isn't handling any of it well at all and is dealing with it mostly alone. I swear I'm not a freak! If this was my daughter I would be appropriately pissed off, CALM DOWN.īut a taboo romance is kind of my jam. (I'm including the purchase links for that below because if you love romance you will likely really, really enjoy that one as well.) I know the teacher-student relationship trope is kind of taboo and people hate it but I kind of love it. Right off the bat, this book kind of reminded me of Eighteen by J.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every chapter ends with such an unexpected event and I am forced to read the next chapter to find out how the hell did that happen? The story twists so much I have to read every chapter now to know what’s gonna happen next.Īnd James Dashner, that man knows how to keep the readers at the edge of their seats. The while second half of the book doesn’t even resemble half the movie. After reaching half of the book I thought ‘everything’s the same, why read more to know what happened. The first half I knew what was going around and I knew what will really happen to Thomas. My experience told me the movie will be almost same as the book. I watched the movie first and then I decided to read the book. All they know is thay every morning when the walls side back, they will risk everything to find out. ![]() Like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they came to be there, or what’s happened to the world outside. He’s surrounded by boys who welcome him to the Glade, an encampment at the centre of a bizarre and terrible maze. When the doors of the lift crank open, the only thing Thomas can remember is his first name. Okay I have a few words, so start reading! Dystopian novel fans hold your breath! The one of the most amazing and full-of-awesomeness-series is here!! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “But the process of writing the book helped me see all of the ways beautiful and terrible things were touching.” “Turns out, I didn’t really solve my life, as lives aren’t quite solvable,” says Smith from her home in Columbus, Ohio. $33 at Bookshop Credit: Atria/One Signal Publishers Smith says she wrote the memoir because she thought that if she could set it all down on paper and sort the blown-up parts of her life back into their appropriate containers, like “marriage,” “motherhood,” and “career,” she could heal from her divorce, move on, and find greater peace. She has an uncanny ability to boil down giant ideas into tiny, dense sentences that are both playful and heartbreaking. You Could Make This Place Beautiful, out now, is very much a poet’s memoir, and fans of Smith’s poems will recognize the particular and intricate ways she uses language. So Smith - who’s been featured in The Best American Poetry anthology, amongst other publications, and is the award-winning author of the collection of essays and quotes Keep Moving, as well as four books of poetry, one of which includes the popular poem Good Bones - wrote a memoir. But this - grieving a marriage that had disintegrated - was a big problem. Normally, writing a poem might conjure the solution. ![]() ![]() Maggie Smith had a problem, and as a type A, first-born daughter, she set about solving it. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and Bryn turn to a handsome traveling magician, North, who offers protection from Avinea's many dangers, but he cannot save Faris from Bryn's cruelty as she leverages Cadence's freedom to force Faris to do anything - or kill anyone - she asks. ![]() Now Faris must smuggle stolen magic into neighboring Avinea to incite its prince to ally with Bryn - magic that addicts in the war-torn country can sense in her blood and can steal with a touch. But when Cadence is caught trying to flee the kingdom and is sold into slavery, Faris reluctantly agrees to a lucrative scheme to buy her back, inadvertently binding herself to the power-hungry Princess Bryn, who wants to steal her father's throne. Faris grew up fighting to survive in the slums of Brindaigel while caring for her sister, Cadence. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. ![]() AS2 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by author on a bookplate adhered on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as the days progress, the naïve animals find themselves in the throes of a treacherous conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything they've worked for. The oppressed animals of 'Manor Farm' overthrow their cruel master, Mr Jones, in a bid to establish a just and equal society. Animal Farm is Orwell's searing political satire of the Russian Revolution. A startling work of fiction, 1984willhaunt you long after you finish reading this book. But everything changes when Winston comes across 'The Brotherhood'-a revolutionary secret organization that is conspiring to overthrow the government. As Winston seeks pleasure through small acts of rebellion, the ever-looming threat of the Thought Police grows stronger. Haunted by his memories, he remembers a world where the truth wasn't doctored, and your thoughts were your own. ![]() And while everyone seems to have accepted the new reality, Winston is struggling. Set in an imagined future, the people live under a totalitarian regime where 'Big Brother' is always watching. ![]() Publisher Marketing: In Nineteen Eighty Four, George Orwell's Dystopian vision comes to life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After lots of brouhaha, it was believed finally that I had indeed penned the poem which went on to win me a Scrabble game and local acclaim. That year, I wrote a story and my teacher said “This is really good.” Before that I had written a poem about Martin Luther King that was, I guess, so good no one believed I wrote it. Of course I got in trouble for lying but I didn’t stop until fifth grade. I loved lying and getting away with it! There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends’ eyes grow wide with wonder. Not “Once upon a time” stories but basically, outright lies. ![]() I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories. I chalked stories across sidewalks and penciled tiny tales in notebook margins. (It was not pretty for me when my mother found out.) I wrote on paper bags and my shoes and denim binders. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. I used to say I’d be a teacher or a lawyer or a hairdresser when I grew up but even as I said these things, I knew what made me happiest was writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though somewhat moody, Julien is a good man with a heart of gold, and a great sense of loyalty and responsibility enabling his wife, Rachael, to turn a blind eye to his tightly-kept secrets. ![]() Living a successful though austere lifestyle on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Julien has recreated himself, building emotional walls that even his young wife cannot penetrate. Now, at forty-five, he continues to be plagued by horrific nightmares and reenactments of that tragic event. ![]() A Manhattan power couple survive a tragedy and attempt a fresh start only to be plagued by unexplained and disastrous occurrences.be careful what you wish for.At the age of nine, growing up in the French countryside, Julien Grenier witnessed the brutal murder of his grandfather. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Bird receives a mysterious letter from her, it sets him on a quest to uncover the cause of her disappearance. Twelve-year-old Bird was eight when his Chinese-American mother vanished, after which his father destroyed every trace of her. Set in a dystopian near future, Ng’s outstanding third novel envisages a draconian US in which Asians and Asian-Americans are treated with mistrust, contempt and violence. Evocative and beautifully written, it’s a deeply immersive read. An urban fox cub befriends a young girl before encountering the terror of a hunt, while an orca matriarch is shot at by rampaging day-trippers on boats. Cry of the Wild: Eight Animals Under Siegeįoster’s latest, highly imaginative work of creative nonfiction envisages the lives of animals, from gannets to otters, in this harsh, human-dominated world. Onda beautifully conveys the transcendent power of classical music in all its emotive, psychological and visceral glory. Akashi balances music with work and fatherhood, while precocious Jin is a disruptor in this rarefied world. Aya is a former prodigy who has not played in public since her mother’s death. ![]() Set over two weeks of a fictional piano competition in Japan, Onda’s novel is a thrilling and often nail-biting depiction of music, friendship and personal demons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Johnson has set many of her works of young adult literature, picture books and other works in Alabama, sometimes specifically Macon County. ![]() Johnson and her family moved to Ohio when she was just a child, and many of her more than 40 books were written with a children's audience in mind, and most often about the African-American family experience. "I am very happy for Angela Johnson to be returning to Alabama virtually," Thompson said, speaking of the 2021 Zoom version of the Monroeville Literary Festival, March 4-6, "so that we can make her work more known to families and readers in Alabama." That's a knowledge gap the prestigious award should help address, said Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum. ![]() Angela Johnson, the 2021 Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer recipient, was born in Tuskegee, though her name may not be as immediately recognizable in her birth state as that of previous recipients, such as Rick Bragg, Fannie Flagg, Gay Talese, Winston Groom or Mark Childress. ![]() |