The end of 2024 went by so fast and I can hardly believe we are 15 days into 2025 already! 2024 was a tough year. It was a year of change and rebuilding. It was also an emotionally and mentally challenging year. There were some failures, but also some wins. Blogging: I wanted to get … More 2024 End of Year Wrap Up!
Publisher: Rhiza Edge. Release Date: March 1st, 2021. Source: Purchsed. Category: YA, fantasy and sci-fi short story anthology. Synopsis from Goodreads: A handsome clockmaker fixes a broken time machine to help a cursed lady. A young scientist betrays his people to protect an alien species. A girl bonds with her new technological helper and sees … More #AussieYAChallenge 6: Crossed Spaces edited by Lynne Stringer and R.A.Stephens.
It is almost the end of the year and I am delighted to be able to share with you two exciting pieces of writing news. I have been accepted into two anthologies! I have never been published in an anthology before, so to now be in two is amazing. The first is an anthology of … More Writing News.
Publisher: Pantera Press. Release Date: April 1st, 2016. Genre/Series: Fantasy/ The Medoran Chronicles (Book 2) Synopsis from Goodreads: Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices.” Returning for a second year at Akarnae Academy with her gifted friends, Alexandra Jennings steps back through a doorway into Medora, the fantasy world that is full of … More #AussieYAChallenge 2: Raelia by Lynette Noni.
Publisher: Enclave Publishing. Release Date: December 6th 2022. Genre/Series: Fantasy – The Nightingale Trilogy #1 Source: Purchased. Synopsis from Goodreads: What if you could edit memories with a single touch? The world-that-was is gone, lost to everything except living memory . . . but remembering comes at a terrible price. Sixty-two years after the apocalypse, … More Review: Calor By J.J Fischer
There are a few new releases and soon-to-be released books I am excited about and thought I’d share them with you today. Here are some by Australian authors: I have just discovered this author and started reading another book of hers and am enjoying it. I love the cover of this and it sounds like … More Upcoming And New Release Spotlight.
Release Date: October 1st 2016. Publisher: Walker Books Australia. Source: From publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis from Goodreads: The third book in Amy Ewing’s New York Times bestselling Lone City trilogy, The Black Key is perfect for fans of The Selection and Red Queen. Violet and the Society of the Black Key are preparing … More Review: The Black Key By Amy Ewing.
#This is the 7th book I have read for the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge. Release Date: February 1st 2015. Publisher: Pantera Press. Source: Via Simon & Schuster Australia in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis from Goodreads: With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings’s world changes–literally. Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex … More Review: Akarnae by Lynette Noni. #aww2015
Hi Everyone, welcome to this week’s writerly update. I have mainly been concentrating on my YA epic Fantasy as this is the one I have decided I am going to send out on submission when it is ready. YA author Susan Dennard just sold her YA epic fantasy to Tor & Tor UK which I … More A Writerly Update 23.
Note: I’m not doing NaNoWriMo, and I feel like the only writer who isn’t. I’ve already got too many projects under my belt and a new 50,000 word one is not what I need right now. This is going to be a short update because I’ve only been concentrating on one manuscript lately, and that’s … More A Writerly Update 12.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 