Welcome to Fiction Friday where each week I either bring you a review of a book I have read or I highlight a soon to be released book. This week I am highlighting the soon to be released Requiem by Lauren Oliver, the third book in the Delirium series. I am so excited about this … More Fiction Friday: Requiem by Lauren Oliver.
I love reading writing tips from authors, they are very helpful things indeed. I was reading some tips last night and thought they’d be good to share with everyone, which sparked an idea. From now on, every Wednesday will become ‘Writing Tip Wednesday’, and I’ll post writing tips from authors to help us writers out. Since … More Things to come.
If you ask an author for some advice on writing, they are undoubtably going to tell you to read, read and read. Read widely and often. This is one of the first things they will tell you, and since basically all of them tell you to do it, it is advice worth following. How can you write … More To read or to write? That is the question.
I absolutely loved Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi, it was 5 out of 5 amazing. And her second book in this series, Unravel Me, is being released on february 5th. (And I’m not buying any more books until march, how will I make it???) If you HAVEN’T read Shatter Me, you may not want to … More Shatter Me 2 is almost here!
‘Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read in nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity…Even if unread, we cherish books.Their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.’ — A.E. Newton. Never a quote so true. I … More So many books, so little time.
Rejection is a part of being a writer. Lots of writers got rejected many times before they got picked up. Becca Fitzpatrick took 5 years to sell her YA angel book Hush Hush, Wither by Lauren Destefano was rejected 120 times before it was picked up, and even Stephen King was rejected. (His book ‘On … More A word on rejection.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 